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Belmonster" Disaster Teaches California a Lesson
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.28.2003
Last week the Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles, the most expensive high school in history with $175 million already spent, grew $111 million more expensive. While a disaster for students, the now $286 million "Belmonster," as some call it, provides clear lessons about what is wrong with California's government education system.
Let Them Read Fakes
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.21.2003
The New York Times has been making headlines with the revelation that its star reporter, Jayson Blair, filed stories from places he had not been, freighted with quotes he made up, and filled with information either bogus or stolen from other writers. His work is in the tradition of Janet Cooke of the Washington Post, whose celebrated tale of a youthful junkie proved to be fiction, and fabulist Stephen Glass of The New Republic, now attempting to cash in on his fraud in a new book.
High School Exit Exam Has Improved Learning
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 5.14.2003
In a recent speech, Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association (CTA), blared, "We have to fight to end these absurd tests that are biased, racist, and unfairly define kids and teachers as failures" The CTA is sponsoring legislation that would effectively eliminate the state's high-school exit exam. A new study, however, shows that the exit exam has improved the quality of instruction.
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