Study suggests math teachers scrap balls and slices 

By Kenneth Chang, The New York Times, April 25, 2008 

One train leaves Station A at 6 p.m. traveling at 40 miles per hour toward Station B. A second train leaves Station B at 7 p.m. traveling on parallel tracks at 50 m.p.h. toward Station A. The stations are 400 miles apart. When do the trains pass each other?   

AT&T Announces Dropout Prevention Effort 

By Teresa VonFuchs, WirelessWeek, April 18, 2008 

AT&T announced a plan to donate $100 million over four years to programs aimed at boosting high-school graduation rates. Called AT&T Aspire, the program includes grants to schools and non-profit organizations, job shadowing for 100,000 students nationwide and the underwriting of national research exploring the drop out rate.

U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula  

By Sam Dillon, The New York Times, April 1, 2008 

Moving to sweep away the tangle of inaccurate state data that has obscured the severity of the nation’s high school dropout crisis, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will require all states to use one federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates, Bush administration officials said on Monday. 

Schools may get a break on tests

Teachers may see plentiful bonuses 

By T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer, April 1, 2008 

RALEIGH - In a potential financial windfall for teachers, the state is about to make it easier for educators to get bonuses and for schools to pass federal testing requirements.