Schools News Around the Blogosphere

Subjects, Verbs and Disagreement
Washington Post
By Linton Weeks
Survey finds that Internet language and text-messaging abbreviations are seeping into academic writing, worrying scholars that the death of the English sentence is looming.

'Two Million Minutes' suggests it's time to improve U.S. education
Los Angeles Times
A Memphis entrepreneur's documentary compares high-achieving students from India, China and America. It has drawn mixed reactions from academics. That conversation launched Compton, 52, of Memphis, Tenn., on a mission. As both an entrepreneur and the father of 14- and 16-year-old girls, he wanted to know what schools in other countries were doing that American schools weren't, and why the United States performed so miserably on international student comparisons.

Study Finds Little Benefit in New SAT
New York Times
By TAMAR LEWIN
The revamped SAT, expanded three years ago to include a writing test, predicts college success no better than the old test, according to studies by the College Board, which owns the test.

Many states watch - and like - Florida's education policy
St. Petersburg Times
By Ron Matus
Florida is No. 1 in the nation in vouchers. It's No. 2 in charter school enrollment. It's No. 4 in the percentage of high school students passing college-level exams.

Predicting success, preventing failure
San Francisco Chronicle
Julian Betts, Andrew Zau
After the sounds of "Pomp and Circumstance" have faded, Californians will find out just how many high school seniors actually graduated this year. A significant number will be denied diplomas because they failed the California High School Exit Exam.