1 year ago

Homeroom Period: Thursday’s latest education news and links

Good morning everyone, let’s get right down to business.

• The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a new project profiling area students and teachers who have made a difference in the community.
• Also from Solon, Shawn Cornally has a Chris Rock-style epiphany on open periods. He says they prey on students struggling the hardest with the traditional school system and he’s get plans for them in his upcoming scheduling experiment.
• The Center for American Progress is encouraging congress to make tackling student debt a priority. This is especially a problem for students who take on loans, and end up failing to get their degree.
• I didn’t get to cover it last week when Kennedy High School welcomed its Japanese exchange students, but the student journalists at The Torch are on the job.

That’s it for today. If you have an interesting link or blog you’d like to share with Homeroom Period, why not pass it along?