Despite the obvious flaws of an educational system based upon academic standards, it is far superior to the available alternatives. The politically correct blood sport among educational commentators ...

Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they don’t. In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one ...

I came from a very interesting High School. We had the highest college acceptance rates in the state (Something like 99% or so. Absurdly high) of Washington, with the highest average SAT scores, etc ...

Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...