Education News

Montana’s slippage is not new. It dates to the 1980s, and I first identified the trend in an article published in 1992. The state’s education bureaucracy admits the general trend, but has never satisfactorily explained the cause.

The new site was designed to be user-friendly so anyone interested in the department iof education could find information fast and efficiently, according to a department release.

An increasing number of states have required that some science coursework for high school graduates be in lab sciences.

Serving almost 870,000 youth nationwide, school-based mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of mentoring in the US today.

The report found that state-set goals for raising graduation rates are “far too low to spur needed improvement.”

"In the last 10 years, internships have become a prerequisite for entry-level jobs,"

With the goal of improving the competitiveness of their workforces, many states and regions are searching for the best policies to encourage participation in educational opportunities beyond high school. Dual enrollment plans are one type of such policies that enable students to enroll in postsecondary level courses while still in high school.

The report proposes a comprehensive action plan to elevate the status of the teaching profession and focuses on transforming three key components that contribute to a robust, world-class teaching workforce: recruitment, retention, and renewal.

One study found that people who did not graduate from high school lived an average of nine years less than graduates.

Students who had more math courses in high school did better in all types of science once they got to college, researchers say.