4FRNT's Shreddership awards academics
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:41:43 -0700
Can you think of a sport that would be harder to integrate with scholastic pursuits than freeskiing? I can't. It's a purely individual sport. It is not sanctioned by any school sports governing body. So missing class for competitions means going through the headache of explaining your unusual athletic...
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Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:07:34 -0700
Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line -- sometimes literally between life and death. At the South Side after-school center that his mom founded, he knew kids who'd made it all the way to fourth grade unable to read.
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