How important are high school courses to college performance? Less than you might think – Brookings

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/07/20-high-school-courses-college-performance-ferenstein-hershbein

“First, policymakers need to explicitly link high school and college performance. National assessments need to follow students through college graduation to understand what works–and what does not–over the long term. To date, many standardized tests (including international assessments) simply assume that performance in high school necessarily predicts later success, without revealing how students use such knowledge and skills in college classes or to finish their degree.”

Teachers are thanking Melania Trump

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36836599

Teachers and academics in the UK and the US have taken to Twitter to thank Donald Trump’s wife for providing the perfect material to teach their students what plagiarism is and why it is wrong.