Ocala rethinks high grade-retention rates
In the late 1990s, Florida instituted a requirement that third-graders reach a certain test threshold in reading or be held back in third grade. Now Marion County schools (which includes Ocala) is rethinking grade retention where it can (hat tip), once they realized they had several hundred middle-school students who could legally drive. The research […]
Not hypocrisy
Liam Julian is chiming in with the Wall Street Journal today in implying that Senator Obama is hypocritical for sending his children to private schools while voting against voucher programs. I suppose you could claim that Obama would be hypocritical if he had used a voucher program and then voted against them, but he and […]