by guest blogger Joann Wasik from TheGateway.org Every year, a new crop of students begins to learn about the continents. In the U.S. and Canada, students learn that there are seven continents, while students in some other countries may learn that there are as few as five or six continents (with North and South[…]Continue Reading
Once again, there is a lot of buzz around graduation rates. The National Center for Education Statistics published the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for 2014-15: This is a series of tables that display the percentage of students from the original cohort who graduated in four years with a regular high school diploma. Nationally, high school graduation[…]Continue Reading
In 2004, Danielle Sullivan was working as a legislative aid when she had an Aha moment. In the years that she’d worked in Washington, nothing had changed in education. Sullivan decided to trade her desk on the Hill for one in a classroom. That year, she joined the DC Teaching Fellows and started teaching special[…]Continue Reading