• AZ moves to increase graduation requirements
  Arizona Daily Star
  
• Gov. calls for voluntary preschool across Alabama
  Birmingham News
  
• California’s low-scoring schools improving 3 years after settlement
  San Francisco Chronicle
  
• Delaware teachers: Tests don't define our students
  The Wilmington News Journal
  
• Idaho education board creates interim teaching certificate
  Idaho Stateman
  
• Maine’s anti-dropout program working
  Kennebec Journal
  
• Mississippi schools short on teachers
  Hattiesburg American
  
• New York governor considers special ed bill that shifts burden of proof to educators
  Syracuse Post-Standard
  
• Tennessee schooling costs up for illegal immigrants
  Chattanooga Times Free Press

From Education Week

• The number of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards sharply increases, but will the value of the certification decline?
  
• The military “widens door for high school dropouts” through the Education Plus program that provides basic education to new recruits and helps them get their GEDs

Published Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007