Family Matters - A Lot

Michael Winerip writing in the Sunday New York Times links No Child Left Behind to a recent ETS study on family and student achievement – and starts his column by proclaiming that in an “awful lot” of cases, a school’s failure to perform on NCLB tests is not its fault.
Instead, he writes, four factors over which schools have [...]

Steady Diet of Testing Same as Steady Diet of Double Cheeseburgers

As the curriculum gets narrower, kids get wider, claims a forthcoming documentary on the childhood obesity epidemic.
Filmmaker Steven Greenstreet interviewed teachers for his documentary, “Killer at Large,” and the Deseret Morning News reports that he finds a number of school-based reasons for the childhood obesity crisis. School lunches and junk food in school vending machines play a part, but [...]