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Many students who graduate with an IB-certified diploma are awarded college credit, admitted automatically into honors programs in college, or even allowed to skip their entire freshman year altogether.

Experts recommend ways to better prepare high school graduates for a higher education

The researchers found that at 6 months old, the infants in the video intervention had significantly higher scores than those in the control group in all four domains of the standardized StimQ infant test, which covers parent-child interaction and preliteracy activities, such as toy interaction, reading activities, and the parent’s teaching and verbal responsiveness to the child.

"We don’t know what we are supposed to be doing, but we are learning about math," Thea Burnett, 6, said.

In the past year, 46 states grappled with budget deficits of more than $130 billion. This year could be worse as federal recovery dollars dry up. And yet, for education reform, 2011 could be the best of times.

"We really believe that the New A.P. needs to be anchored in a curriculum that focuses on what students need to be able to do with their knowledge."

Florida’s governor-elect wants to put the power of education in parents’ hands. But some of his ideas may not be legal, or politically popular.

A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through "Jeopardy"-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.

Still, they all had something novel: about the way their teachers taught their classes, the courses they offered, or the way they prepared their students to take the next step.

"Evidence suggests U.S. parents may be overly confident or lacking in the use of accurate metrics around math performance and college preparedness."