The division between work and play is a myth...
Innovation companies today don't ask and don't care about basic skills, grades, or SAT scores-instead, they want to know if you can brainstorm all the possible uses of bubble wrap.
in American curriculums, a growing emphasis on standardized test scores as the primary measure of “successful” schools has crowded out what should be an essential criterion for well-educated students: a sense of responsibility for the well-being of others.
teachers, janitors and bus drivers are all trained to identify instances of bullying, and taught how to intervene.
About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released on Thursday.
Girls far outperformed boys in the test, with 41 percent of eighth-grade girls scoring at or above the proficient level, compared with 20 percent of eighth-grade boys.
Authorities in the federal government’s school testing program said they were encouraged by the results, especially since they seemed to counter other recent indicators suggesting a decline in Americans’ writing abilities.