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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Arizona Republic
Converse with teacher to fix homework issues
If your child struggles with homework, continuing communication with teachers is very important in solving homework problems, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Projects help tech team youths gain self-esteem
Gone are the days when vocational classes were only for students who didn't plan to go to college. From culinary arts to robotics, the East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa is helping high school students get a jump-start on career training.

Keeping kids from workplace
April 27 is the national ''Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work'' day, but many Valley schools won't be celebrating, nor encouraging parents to take their children out of school.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Restore focus to education in Cobb
In the Cobb school redistricting wars, almost everyone has acted childlike except the children.

Boston Globe
Live via computer -- a tutor
LAWRENCE -- History is the subject for Christian Nunez. The 16-year-old freshman at Lawrence High School loves reading about how various people came to the United States and how they settled different parts of the country.

Boston Herald
Needham 'shocked' by teen suicides
By Debra Filcman
A teen suicide epidemic is rocking Needham as terrified parents and educators cope with four suicides in less...

Charlotte Observer
Can teachers ever hug students?
Sexual allegations highlight issue some call one of common sense
When Greg Harris started teaching sixth-graders, older co-workers told him about the lines no male teacher should cross. Don't be alone with female students. Don't give students rides home. And no hugging.

Chicago Sun-Times
More kids dying for drug-free high
Across the United States, kids are looking for the ultimate drug-free high -- and dying.
A deadly thrill called "the Choking Game" is becoming increasingly popular and claiming lives of children between the ages of 9 and 16,

Chicago Tribune 
Aging textbooks fail Illinois kids
Tribune Investigation: Across Illinois, students are resorting to duct tape and rubber bands to hold together decrepit textbooks. Other books are so woefully out-of-date they don't teach fundamentals such as the fall of Soviet communism.

Cincinnati Enquirer
Christian school goes online
The man who led Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy's elementary school is launching a Christian school online.

Contra Costa Times
State tops U.S. in students denied aid after drug offense
Federal policy denies college aid to those with drug convictions; more than 2,200 Californians were shut out in 2005
By Michael Doyle, McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
More than 31,000 California college students forfeited their shot at federal financial aid because of a past drug conviction, newly released records show.

Cut in college loan rates proposed
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Rep. George Miller, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, will try to cut the interest rate on federally backed college loans.

Dallas Morning News
School finance lessons
Lawmakers face a day of reckoning on school finance and property taxes in just six weeks. But even with that court-ordered deadline to meet and a blue-ribbon plan from the governor, the task is enormous, according to those who have fought such battles before.
Austin's 3-ring circus
When Texas lawmakers gather for a special session, the cast of characters will be something to behold

Detroit News
State warns colleges: Prep teachers better
20% fail certification exams at 5 universities; schools chief wants to penalize those that churn out bad teachers.

Hartford Courant

Herald Tribune

Houston Chronicle
Teacher stresses importance of being bilingual
San Benito educator retires after 37 years of balancing English with Spanish
HARLINGEN - Anita Garcia said she is a product of her former teachers' work.

So-called 'boy crisis' is mostly myth
By CARYL RIVERS and ROSALIND CHAIT BARNETT
IT was the early 1900s, and boys were supposedly in crisis. In monthly magazines, ladies' journals and books, urgent polemics appeared, warning that young men were spending too much time in school with female teachers and that the constant interaction with women was robbing them of their "manhood."

Miami Herald
Suspension centers sought to keep students off streets
BY PETER BAILEY
When principals send unruly students home on suspension, North Miami police Officer Lazaro Miel often finds them climbing through house windows or spray-painting bus stops.

New York Daily News 
School Ca(fat)eria
Nearly three years after city schools vowed to battle the epidemic of childhood obesity by overhauling lunches, a Daily News investigation found that some cafeteria meals are still packed with calories and fat.

Making the Grade
Jay Greene: Accountability is a constructive and increasingly powerful force in the education of New York City schoolchildren. It starts with report cards and runs far deeper.

New York Post
Adam Brodsky : A New School Fear
BUSING has come to Gotham. Or, at least, forced integration - along cultural, if not racial, lines. And any parent who cares about his kid has a right to be concerned.

Orlando Sentinel
FCAT graders' names, abilities a 'trade secret'
Two state senators seeking information on the temporary workers who grade parts of Florida's high-stakes school exams are fuming after being told it is a "trade secret."

Rush to judgment at Duke
'We don't know all the facts about the alleged Duke lacrosse rape, but . . ."

Palm Beach Post
School tries to turn teens around
One Oak Grove student, Francis Talleyrand, shot a store clerk during a robbery attempt.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sifting through financial aid offers can be daunting
NEW YORK -- It's panic time in many American homes as parents struggle to evaluate the financial aid packages for their soon-to-be college freshmen children -- and figure out what to do if they don't get enough. 

Providence Journal
Worries of grades, future during academic crunch time
Gigi DeBarros clutches a manila folder to her chest as she enters art class on a Monday morning last month. The folder holds papers that Gigi believes will change her life.

Edwatch by Julia Steiny: On Easter, a plea for peace and religious understanding
Happy Easter.
Forgive me, but today seems a fitting time to say something about religion and its place in schools, since the grownups on both sides of the most recent controversy -- about Intelligent Design -- have behaved badly.

Rocky Mountain News
DPS spokesman resigns for job in Greeley
Denver Public Schools spokesman Mark Stevens has resigned to take a similar job with the Weld County District 6 school district in Greeley.

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
When what happens on MySpace doesn't stay on MySpace
BY JIMMY GREENFIELD and DAVID HAUGH, Chicago Tribune
Until a few weeks ago, Paul Marszalek's MySpace.com page had photos of him and his friends partying, dancing and drinking alcohol.

Salt Lake Tribune
Homeless ranks rise in schools
The Jordan School District is seeing an ever-larger number of homeless children in its classrooms. Projected to hit a new high of about 2,100 students by the end of this school year, the growth mirrors a nationwide pattern, experts say.

San Antonio Express-News
Baptist students urge thoughtful legislation
A group of about 2,500 Hispanic students who attended a meeting on Saturday sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas urged lawmakers to pass comprehensive and compassionate immigration legislation.

San Diego Union Tribune 
S.D. Unified to offer prestigious program
The acronym "IB" may not be as well known as "AP" in American schools, but in the global education arena, International Baccalaureate is touted as a hallmark of academic rigor, just as Advanced Placement is in the United States.

Seattle Times 
Math comes with its own problems
Jeremiah Pilkington knows the drill: First the butterflies in the stomach. Then the frustration. "I sometimes would feel some people are...

St. Louis Post Dispatch 
District will pay 2 schools chiefs
Howell School Board is divided over salaries for two superintendents.

Tallahassee Democrat
THE TECHNOLOGY RUSH:
As schools scramble to keep up, students likely will get hit with the tab
For Romeko Card, who crams 18 credit hours of animal-science courses and 20 hours of farming into his week, hunting down a well-functioning computer is a hassle.

Public Schools
The issue: Spending on a new statewide pre-kindergarten program.

Higher Education
The issues: About to hit 300,000 in student enrollment next year, state universities need more dollars to maintain access for students, pay bills and rev up quality.

Washington Post
Md. to Use New Data to Combat Bullying
New Count Finds Middle-Schoolers Are Most Affected
Report to the General Assembly is the first comprehensive attempt by state officials to count incidents of bullying and other harassment in its 24 public school systems.

Allegations of Grade Tampering Spur Inquiry
Agency to investigate whether a D.C. charter school administrator sought to alter transcripts in order to allow the facility to stay open.

Wichita Eagle
KC-area students charged with threatening teachers
Associated Press
Five middle-school students have been charged in connection with threats against teachers. Two 13-year-old girls, both from Shawnee, were each charged with one felony count of criminal threat in Johnson County District Court. They allegedly threatened to kill a teacher over a grade in a Jan. 17 posting on an online journal.

Wilmington News Journal
Disabled focus of grading dispute
Red Clay says state tests ignore pupils' problems
Ten first-graders squealed with excitement as a speech pathologist led them in an Easter egg game.

Pupils try to cultivate healthful habits
Before the school year started, 14-year-old Nathan Medeiros had never tried a tomato, let alone beets, leeks or spinach.

International Articles

The Arab News
Orphans to Get Free University Education
RIYADH- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has issued a royal decree providing for free higher education to orphans, including studies abroad. The latest move, which...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Teachers decry 'culture of cool'
Teachers say a "culture of cool" is undermining positive pupil attitudes - in school and out.

Academy cash 'should be spread'
Teachers' leaders call on the government to divert £5bn from city academies to schools in deprived parts of England.

Teacher scrutiny too intense - union
The scrutiny of teachers by their heads can sometimes be unreasonably intense, says a teachers' union.

The Daily Yomiuri 
Ministry to run after-school classes
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry will start a nationwide project in which retired school teachers give after-school classes for students who, for financial and other reasons, cannot attend cram schools, ministry officials said Saturday.

The Guardian 
Please Sir! I'm off sick next week to go to Alton Towers
Education: Schools urge fightback as the number of families taking pupils out of class soars.

The Gulf Times
Internet-based TOEFL test on April 28
QATAR University (QU) has been selected as a centre for TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT), an international test which is a key component for admission to major universities.

The Independent (UK)
Teachers being 'bullied' by heads who invigilate them
Teachers are being driven out of their jobs and into ill-health by headteachers who bully them with repeated inspections of their lessons, a teachers' union conference heard yesterday.

NUT plans for parents to veto trust schools
Britain's biggest teachers' union is to step up its war against the Prime Minister's plans to set up a network of independently run "trust" schools and academies throughout the country.

The Peninsula
Distribution of school report cards finished
DOHA: The Supreme Education Council's Evaluation Institute has completed distribution of School Report Cards (SRCs) and parents' guides for reading and understanding the SRCs, to all schools ..............