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News Coverage April 2009

April 29, 2009— The Washington Post —“Nation's Report Card: Student Progress Mixed”
The nation's 9- and 13-year-olds are doing better in math and reading than in the early 1970s, but average scores for students approaching high-school graduation haven't budged, according to test results released Tuesday. Performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which offers a long view of the achievement of American schoolchildren, shows several bright spots. Nine-year-olds in 2008 posted the highest average scores ever: 220 in reading and 243 in math on a 500-point scale. For comparison, scores were 208 in reading in 1971 and 219 in math in 1973. Black and Hispanic students made strong gains in the latest testing. But the high-school results were less encouraging. Seventeen-year-olds did no better in reading or math since the early 1970s. The assessment, known as the "nation's report card," tests a sampling of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds. It is widely seen as one of the best measures of academic progress.

April 11, 2009— New York Times —“Tech Recruiting Clashes with Immigration Rules”
Google is based here in Silicon Valley. But Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, one of the key engineers on this project, is not. Mr. Mavinkurve, a 28-year-old Indian immigrant who helped lay the foundation for Facebook while a student at Harvard, instead works out of a Google sales office in Toronto, a lone engineer among marketers. He has a visa to work in the United States, but his wife, Samvita Padukone, also born in India, does not. So he moved to Canada.

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