Thompson: When Simple Demographics Miss The Point [image: Lead620]The Daily Oklahoman's depiction of my old school (Centennial High School Succeeding in a Place of Failure) and the comments following the article tell a sad but important story. Centennial has a NCLB API of 264 on a scale of 1500 - ...
Books: Mrs. Duncan's Fun Book [image: image from ecx.images-amazon.com] Arne Duncan's wife, Karen, has a book out -- did you know? Me neither. But Larry Ferlazzo passed along a link about it, and now you can take a look. It's called The Good Fun Book and it's full of activities ...
NCLB: The Good Of The Few Vs. The Good Of The Many [image: image from scholasticadministrator.typepad.com] Check out the breakdown of kids taking AP and honors courses at Evanston Township High School just outside Chicago -- supposedly one of the best schools in the nation. Then tell me that the ...
