AM News: State Board Move To Slow CA "Parent Trigger"
State Board of Education delays move to implement parent-trigger law LAT: A group will be appointed to study how to implement the measure, which lets parents petition for sweeping reforms at low-performing schools... More Students Fail Advanced Placement Tests WSJ: As record numbers of high-school students are taking and passing Advanced Placement exams, a rising percentage are scoring at the lowest level possible, according to national data on 2010 graduates released Wednesday... Minority Students and A.P. Program, a Mixed Report Card NYT: More than 853,000 public high school seniors in last May’s graduating class, or 28 percent of the class, took at least one A.P. exam. Some 59 percent of those who took the tests earned a grade of 3, 4 or 5, which are required for college credit... Md. ranks No. 1 in Advanced Placement scoring Baltimore Sun: Baltimore City had the lowest scores, with an average pass rate of 3.5 percent. Even the best schools in the city had rates far below most other schools around the region..Many high schools had no students passing any AP exams... Bucks Schoolteacher Suspended Over Blog About Students CBS: Phrases on the blog include; “Frightfully dim,” “Rat-like,” “Am concerned your kid is going to open fire on the school,” “I hate your kid,” and “Seems smarter than she actually is.”Snow days virtually eliminated with Web tools USA Today: Despite winter storms that forced schools and colleges to cancel classes, tech-savvy educators are turning to Web tools to keep students on.. More Textbooks: N.Y. High School Goes Digital AOL: Anastacia Brie, a science teacher at New York City's Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, recently realized why she wasn't tripping over backpacks in her classroom anymore. Her students' bags no longer hold textbooks...