Linking Back: College Admissions, Donations, Graduations, and more

- The Freakonomics Blog pointed out the recent increased volume of articles and reporting in the NY Times talking about the difficulty of getting into college.

- CNN reports that a donor gave $100 million to UChicago... anonymously.

- Here's a good article from the WSJ on sleep (or lack thereof) having an influence on performance.

- A dad, son, and granddaughter are graduating together.

- Here's a great post on special ed. students and the honor roll. A sampling: I think it would be nice if we could find a way to reward people... without pretending that her performance is on par with kids who are taking much tougher classes.

- Joanne Jacobs touches on the 5 year plans... in high schools. I have many friends who are graduating Georgia Tech and other schools in 5 years, but I'd never heard of such high amounts of high schoolers doing the same.

- Here's a new set of wealthy investors getting involved in education as reported in Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog.