Career Center’s fair opens minds and doors
The rumblings of the Bakken oil fields can be felt as far away as School District 2’s Career Center.
Ready or Not, Here They Come: National Standards in Education
When I first heard rumblings about a possible move towards national K-12 education standards (made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and AFT President Randi Weingarten), I was definitely in favor of the idea. The Fordham Institute had just released a study demonstrating the tremendous variance in academic standards between states, and I couldn’t believe that a student who, for example, got a top score on a standardized test in one state might not even be able to pass the equivalent test g
