In the blueprint for secondary education in England, published on Monday, students will have topass tests in three "core" skills needed for the workplace - literacy, maths and information and communications technology.
It is better to punish actual offenders than topass an overly presumptuous law that restricts and discredits the valuable influence that teachers have onstudents.
They even want to impose a tax penalty on the parents of students who register to vote at their North Carolina college addresses, and pass the most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law in the country.
Fortunately, in a development that Keeping Pace reports on but is not highlighted in the eSchool News article, Idaho did pass a measure that allows studentsto earn credit by demonstrating subject mastery instead of only being allowed to earn credit through seat time.