Newsweek released their 2008 rankings of the best high schools in America.  Huntingtown slipped to 568th, 144 positions below last year’s rank of 424th (which was a marked improvement on 2006’s 891st ranking).  Jay Mathews explains the methodology behind the rankings here.

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We’re also following the Washington Post’s weeklong series on chidlhood obesity: poor diets and sedentary lifestyles have pushed more than one third of all children into the ranks of the overweight or obese, triple what they had been a generation ago.  Elementary school children, the Post writes, are now subject to high blood pressure,  cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes – creating the very real possibility that our generation will live far shorter than our parents.  Read the reports on PE classes, school lunches, and a ‘fat school‘ where tuition costs upwards of $6000 per month to help students lose weight.

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And, TechCrunch reports on Facebook’s upcoming changes to profile designs.  The company, TechCrunch writes, wishes to make profiles more refined and easier to manage.