Chemistry for a date. The best pickup line ever. (Reddit)

The higher education Common Core. When Common Core is implemented, will it actually better prepare students for college and careers? Libby Nelson looks at how higher education is preparing for it. (They’re really not, but should, Nelson says.) (Inside Higher Ed)

Closing school for good weather. The principal at Bellingham CContinue Reading »

Dig deeper.  Four things to keep in mind while reading today’s release of the Met Life Survey of the American Teacher. (Eduwonk)

“The cost of college is a bargain,” according to this chart. (The Atlantic)

 “It’s like David vs. Goliath, but David’s got midterms.” A George Mason University student (and Navy vet) sued the school for in-state tuition status—and won. (Washington Post)<Continue Reading »

Okay, let’s check the logic on the no-college-for-undocumented-students debate. You’ve got a large group of undocumented students, many of whom have been here since kindergarten, who have just graduated from taxpayer-funded public schools. You can either let these students go on to college and benefit from the years of elementary and secondary schooling you’ve already funded uContinue Reading »

Immigrants and immigrant rights advocates in Maryland are meeting in Annapolis today to rally Senators and Delegates in support of a measure that would grant in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrant students who have graduated from a Maryland high school. Critics of the measure, House Bill 6, argue that offering these kids in-state rates would take away slots from documented residents aContinue Reading »

Kevin Carey’s Crying Wolf About Immigration clarifies some key points about immigrant youth, including the fact that most children of immigrants are not undocumented. Yet as the debate on immigration reform rages on, there are gnawing questions about how we will educate the nearly 5 million children of undocumented immigrants who are currently living in the United States.

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