Education News – B. A. Birch
“A recent report card from the OCED has found that American 15-year-olds were 25th out of 34 countries in math, and mid-tabled in science and reading, despite spending more dollars per student than all developed countries other than Switzerland. But now a crowd of new teaching initiatives are looking to push American students back up the rankings in innovative ways. And one, through building hybrid electric cars, has proven so successful that a school based entirely around electric car engineering is about to be launched in Philadelphia, writes Michael J. Coren at Co. Exist.”(more)