Now, as tuition continues to skyrocket and many seeking to change careers are heading back to school, some researchers are questioning the methodology behind the high projections.
Media: GIS Mapping For Better Schools TWIE
The use of GIS mapping
apparently includes tracking where good schools are and aren't.
Burtman tells me that Ann Joyner with the Cedar Grove Institute for
Sustainable
Communities has a project focusing on Wayne County, NC. Another name I
got from Burtman is John
Kim of the Healthy City Project in LA. But that's all I know.
Even the top scoring state, Florida, received a C, with most states getting Ds or Fs. A handful of states -- including Georgia,Texas and Louisiana -- got a C-minus.
For Tween Boys, Masculinity in a Spray Can NYT
Psychologists, parents, market researchers and middle-school principals (with drawers full of confiscated spray cans), report a sharp surge in the last few years of the use of grooming products by tween boys.
Obama: Return To Childhood Indonesian Schools [upd]
As
you may recall, there were widespread reports that Obama had been
educated at a radical Muslim madrassa during the 2008 campaign which
were eventually debunked.