Commencement Speaker to High School Graduates: “You’re not special.”

High School Graduates

"You're not special."

That's the headline-grabbing line from a commencement speech at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts given by David McCullough Jr. (son of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author David McCullough).

But, aside from his diatribe against weddings in the opening paragraph, the address offers quite a bit of useful advice for high school graduates and, at the very least, should be somewhat memorable for the graduates--unlike the commencement address at my high school graduation, which was given by a local Divison III college football coach.

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Morning Announcements: May 12, 2011

MorningAnnouncementsIn his School of Thought blog with TIME magazine, Andrew Rotherham answers the question, "Why the Hispanic Student Crisis Is Going Ignored".

The National Education Association officials announced that they would put a policy statement before the union's governing body for approval that, among other changes, would open the door to the use of "valid, reliable, high-quality standardized tests," in combination with multiple other measures, for evaluating teachers, Education Week reports.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that President Obama will deliver a commencement address to Students at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.

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