Inflating High School Graduation Statistics

Katherine Mangan observes that over ninety variants of the high school diploma exist, and many of these do not prepare students for university work. As the comments suggest, the desire to improve the high school graduation rate from 50% to 100% has resulted in the secondary education diploma being devalued, making a university degree the equivilent of the former high school diploma.

-DD

Back-to-School Technology

Jake and Liam Widman list some clever back-to-school technology , including power cubes and scholarship web sites

-DD

Early to Rise

Centers for Disease Control indicates that U.S. high schools begin classes too early in the morning . My co-workers who teach 8AM university courses might be able to speak to this as well.

-DD