This article details the effect of legislation on the state's 7000 homeschooling children. A call by conservative delegates to the GOP convention to disband the Department of Education was defeated by a voice vote. Presumptive GOP candidate George W. Bush supports federal educational programs such as Head Start and grants to states in exchange for establishing standards for student achievement. At the same time, Bush favors restrictions on the federal role in education, increasing local control of schools, and expanding education savings accounts. Fewer high school graduates are choosing to go straight to college, says a new report.
Analysts blame a red-hot economy that entices kids into the workforce.
Others suspect students are simply choosing to postpone college for a short time. Taking standardized testing to all new levels of meaninglessness, teachers in Winslow Twp, New Jersey, are taking courses from test prep company Princeton Review to learn how to teach students to beat standardized tests. I caint rite, but I shur kin fill in da blanx.