Students and guidance counselors often worry about perfect grades and test scores, but ivy league admissions officers are also looking for students with a lot of experience and evidence of leadership potential. Money and income level are also less important than they have been before.
CORPUS CHRISTI — CCISD?s new Web site format is a hit -- and keeps getting them.
District officials said last week the district?s new eChalk system broke records with more than 556,000 hits to district and campus sites in the first two days of its launch.
Hand a bouquet of ROSES to the Corpus Christi Independent School District which this week rolled out eChalk, an online tool that should help parents track the academic progress of their student. The system uses passwords to protect privacy, but the basic idea is to allow parents to look at grade reports, progress reports and attendance reports.
Corpus Christi Independent School District?s eChalk online system went live Monday, allowing parents access to a number of items never before available online, including grade reports, progress reports and attendance reports. Passwords are required for parents to view information.
But Ernest Whitaker, the head science teacher at this school with 500 students in prekindergarten to eighth grade, goes even further and bans C’s altogether from his classroom because, he said, too many students and their parents settle for middling grades. Now a test score in the traditional C range (70 to 79) is marked a D instead.
Extra credit for AP courses, parental lobbying and genuine hard work by the most competitive students have combined to shatter any semblance of a Bell curve, one in which 'A's are reserved only for the very best. For example, of the 47,317 applications the University of California, Los Angeles, received for this fall's freshman class, nearly 21,000 had GPAs of 4.0 or above.
"Mr. Hartranft, a nuclear engineer who had been forced to retire early because of Parkinson’s disease, came up with what he thinks is a rigorous mathematical model to compare the school’s demanding grading system with more lenient grading in other schools. The model, he and some local school administrators say, is a bold new way to think about grades."
It looks like an interesting way to manage your schedule, grades, Todos, files, notes, friends, etc. in the public/searchable domain. I may give it a shot b/c it has a sleek Ajaxian interface. It seems like an intelligent way to share notes among members of the same classes. Auto Wikipedia linking looks promising...
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Students and guidance counselors often worry about perfect grades and test scores, but ivy league admissions officers are also looking for students with a lot of experience and evidence of leadership potential. Money and income level are also less important than they have been before.
CORPUS CHRISTI — CCISD?s new Web site format is a hit -- and keeps getting them. District officials said last week the district?s new eChalk system broke records with more than 556,000 hits to district and campus sites in the first two days of its launch.
But Ernest Whitaker, the head science teacher at this school with 500 students in prekindergarten to eighth grade, goes even further and bans C’s altogether from his classroom because, he said, too many students and their parents settle for middling grades. Now a test score in the traditional C range (70 to 79) is marked a D instead.
Extra credit for AP courses, parental lobbying and genuine hard work by the most competitive students have combined to shatter any semblance of a Bell curve, one in which 'A's are reserved only for the very best. For example, of the 47,317 applications the University of California, Los Angeles, received for this fall's freshman class, nearly 21,000 had GPAs of 4.0 or above.
"Mr. Hartranft, a nuclear engineer who had been forced to retire early because of Parkinson’s disease, came up with what he thinks is a rigorous mathematical model to compare the school’s demanding grading system with more lenient grading in other schools. The model, he and some local school administrators say, is a bold new way to think about grades."
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