Students get a last chance -- rap

Students get a last chance -- rap
Hip Hop High counters a neighborhood culture of extreme violence and poverty with respect, attention and the chance to make music.

Jennifer Murphy knows tough schools. She has been cursed at and threatened, has broken up fights and confiscated weapons. Still, she looks slightly queasy as she sits in her glass-walled principal's office, staring at a huge flat-screen monitor.

Union student achieves perfection on ACT

Union student achieves perfection on ACT

"I figured if I go up, OK; if I don't, I still have a 32."

Perfection means not being satisfied with mere excellence. One Union student who reflects that is senior Lexie Kinion who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college entrance exam after previously scoring high marks ... via TulsaWorld.com - Education

The State of Education

The State of Education
Supt. Jack O'Connell's plan is sensible, if not revolutionary.

The subject of education reform can inspire rhetoric verging on the poetic, replete with pedagogical innovations and experiments that promise the academic and social uplift of struggling students. But the work of improving schools is often anything but lyrical. It's research, collecting data, aligning standards.

Our education system has failed: Amjad Ali Khan - Hindu

Our education system has failed: Amjad Ali Khan Hindu, India - 41 minutes ago Varanasi (PTI): Indian education system has "failed" to create good human beings but music has contributed in a big way in bringing together different ...

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