What We Know
Stats show homeschooling has surged over the past eight years. But U.S. News reports that evangelicals account for just over half of home-schooling households today, down from about two thirds in 2000…Stimulate this! Officials at cash-strapped school systems, are angling for a piece of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which was aimed at bailing out the banks.
What We Want to Find Out
Could it really be true? Fiction reading is up among adults for the first time since 1982? Richard Whitmire is skeptical….Great idea: 8th graders at a California charter school had to pass a physics test to earn their fieldtrip to an amusement park. Was it an effective incentive?….A proposal in Utah would loan $15,000 to new teachers to buy homes. The debt is forgiven if teachers stay in the same district or charter school for 10 years. Did Tom Friedman have something to do with this?
What We Learned
Not very much about the direction of ed policy under the Obama administration, per Flypaper, at Arne Duncan’s confirmation hearing. Campaign K-12’s Michele McNeil says Duncan’s Senate interlocutors might as well have given him “flowers and chocolate”…..A Washington State school district ran up over $200,000 in charges for unpaid student lunches. Parents were outraged when workers started throwing away the hot meals and giving cold cheese sandwiches to the children of the deadbeats. All but $2,000 has now been paid back….A planned school in Newport, RI will likely be named for the late Sen. Claiborne Pell
How We Can Learn More
A new study reports that as children get older, some of their eating habits and leisure activities begin to change for the worse, as they consume more unhealthful food and spend more time being sedentary. Shocking.
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