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10.20.09 - Will Fitzhugh - A recent survey of college professors by the Chronicle of Higher Education found that nearly 90% thought that the students they teach were not very well prepared in reading, doing research and academic writing by their high schools.

Will Fitzhugh - 9.23.09
The Concord Review 
For the last seven or eight years, I have been trying to get funding for a study of the assignment of complete nonfiction (i.e. history) books in U.S. public high schools.

9.9.09 - Will Fitzhugh Specific, detailed, universally-accepted national standards in education are so vital that we have now had them for many decades—in high school sports.

Will Fitzhugh
Columnist EducationNews.org 8.14.09
Today’s Boston Globe has a good-sized article on “Hot Prospects,”—local high school football players facing “increasing pressure from recruiters to make their college decisions early.”

Will Fitzhugh - 8.1.09

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I publish history research papers by secondary students from around the world...

Will Fitzhugh - July 7, 2009 -
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We make frequent use of the influence of their high school peers on many of our students. We have peer counseling programs and even peer discipline systems, in some cases.

Will Fitzhugh - June 30, 2009 - Columnist EducationNews.org - As we approach the end of the first decade of the first century of the third millennium of the Christian Era, the corporate members of the new and influential Partnership for 21st Century Skills have begun to look beyond and behind and beneath

Will Fitzhugh - June 17, 2009
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The New York Times reports that the Stamford, Connecticut public schools may finally achieve the goal of eliminating academic tracking, putting students of mixed academic ability in the same classes at last.

Will Fitzhugh - June 12, 2009
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June means the end of high school and the start of summer. Perhaps there will be jobs or other chores, but, as James Russell Lowell wrote in The Vision of Sir Launfal, “what is so rare as a day in June?

Will Fitzhugh - June 4, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org  Although many high school students do realize it, they all should be helped to understand that their education is not all about them, their feelings, their life experiences, their original ideas, their hopes, their goals, their friends, and so on.