But figuring out exactly what politicians mean by it is complicated. A senior fellow on education policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Eric A. Hanushek sees a need for controlled experiments to gauge the true value of reduced-size classes. It's called freak dancing, and teenagers of all types are freaking at school events across the country.
Many school administrators are less than thrilled.
In light of recent closings, some Minnesota policymakers are questioning how much autonomy charter schools should have, and some districts are putting the brakes on sponsoring new ones. Summer Rosters Chicago school officials announced last week that the district's policy on summer school, which is already one of the nation's toughest, is about to get tougher. A federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has ruled that a school district's anti-harassment policy was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment right of freedom of speech. To End Use of SAT in Admissions Richard C. Atkinson, president of the University of California system, has proposed eliminating SAT scores as a requirement for admission to the 170,000-student system. In Short Business Group Urges Sticking With Standards States should stay the course in the standards and accountability movement, a leading business group recommends, because the effort is starting to show results after more than a decade of work.