The average teenager's university application forms will include a string of GCSE results and predicted or actual A-level or Higher grades. Pupils at Acorn school have continuous teacher assessment. But pupils at a small school in Gloucestershire do not take any of these exams and yet some still manage to get a place at university. [...]
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society – an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore. In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 photo, Mario Rodas of Chelsea, Mass., poses at one of the gates to Harvard [...]
For those in the business of setting educational policy, Teaching for a Living: How Teachers See the Profession Today by Jean Johnson, Andrew Yarrow, Jonathan Rochkind and Amber Ott reveals some remarkable insights from current practitioners. Conducted by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan and nonprofit agency that seeks to bridge “the gap between American leaders and [...]
A.L.O. is about alternatives to compulsory schooling.
