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Saturday, April 1, 2006

Akron Beacon-Journal
State test answers were not shared
Coventry school officials have told the state that while a teacher violated achievement test security provisions, test results were not compromised.

Arizona Republic
Educators raising the bar
Statewide, the most Arizona educators ever, 175, will seek national certification by mailing the first part of their application this week.

Court stays fine over English learners
Arizona school districts that have students struggling to learn English will not be able to divvy up $21 million from court-ordered fines just yet.

ASU, UA graduate schools' ranks dip
U.S. News & World Report released its rankings of American graduate programs on Friday.

A challenge to aim high at ASU
Tempe Republic: It's about time the nation's largest university had something like the Fulton Challenge. Arizona State University should get more support from alumni and people who want the university to do well.

Keeping teens off fatality list
Extra! One neighborhood's campaign against underage drinking should be the state's.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fulton schools may cut 'frills'
Foreign language, band and orchestra programs that make Fulton County elementary schools unusual among metro school systems could be eliminated next year, the result of a budget cut to offset expenses from rising enrollment.

Baltimore Sun
Grasmick's heavy hand deserves applause
Gregory Kane
This past Wednesday, the State Board of Education voted to take control of four failing Baltimore high schools. Failing as in large numbers of students unable to pass high school assessment tests in English, biology, government and algebra.

Final OK given to regents bill
Measure would ban political activity by members of the University System's board

State schools try to boost enrollment through ads
The University of Baltimore has never tried to attract the typical high school student looking for four years of self-discovery on a leafy campus.

Potential school reform: fixing the cone of silence
Laura Vozzella
On Monday, Maryland schools chief Nancy Grasmick gave reporters an off-the-record briefing on her plan to seize 11 failing Baltimore City schools. That was a full day before she told city schools CEO Bonnie Copeland about it. Even then, the board was supposed to stay out of the loop.

Boston Globe
Harvard to include students, faculty in search for president
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University students and faculty will play a role in finding a replacement for outgoing President Lawrence H. Summers, the elite college has announced, indicating the new search may be more inclusive than the last one.

Chicago Sun-Times
Sale of student loan portfolio must wait
State lawmakers hoping for a huge influx of cash from the sale of the state's $3.8 billion student loan portfolio can't count on the windfall to support the state budget just yet.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
School board votes to hire Sanders
Toledo Superintendent Eugene Sanders needs only Mayor Frank Jackson's blessing and good contract talks to become the next leader of the Cleveland schools.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit parents could pay for their children's crimes
The sins of children might mean fines and jail time for Detroit parents. Noting a 25% jump in the number of juvenile crimes in the last year, city police and 36th District Court judges pledged Friday to begin enforcing a little-used parental responsibility statute that has been on the books since 1987.

Detroit News
Arabic is going to the top of the class
Demand for language classes increasingly comes from students with no ties to the Islamic world
LOS ANGELES -- Coming of age during the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, some of the students in the University of California, Los Angeles' advanced Arabic class want to launch diplomatic or military careers.

Houston Chronicle
Dewhurst retreats on business tax stance
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on Friday retreated from his statement a day earlier that he favored basing a business tax on a company's income, rather than its gross receipts.

Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: District making gains on proficiency exam
The Clark County School District needs all the good news it can get. Thus district officials were gushing Thursday about student gains on the high school proficiency exam.

Los Angeles Times
Getting an education on college admissions
Karin Klein makes a good point that teenagers should have a life while in high school instead of joining "The Rat Race to a Top College" (Current, March 26). But maybe they don't have to sacrifice themselves for their studies.

New York Daily News 
Budget gives homeowners, schools boost
City schools will get more money. Suburban homeowners can expect rebate checks. But the most startling thing about the state Legislature's spending plan was that it was passed on time

A big win for the city's kids
Editorials: The state Legislature has made a major down payment on Albany's debt to city children by committing to substantially increase school construction funding. More than 100 new schools, holding 60,000 kids, may soon be on the drawing board.

New York Post
KIDS PROTEST ON PRINCIPLE FOR PRINCIPAL
By DAVID ANDREATTA "We want her back!" That was the shout yesterday from scores of students and parents from a Coney Island high school who rallied at Department of Education headquarters - demanding that their principal, under investigation for allegedly stealing from her previous school, be reinstated.

New York Times
Lawmakers Vote to Block Takeover of Schools in Baltimore
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
The move, by Democratic leaders in the Maryland Legislature on Friday, showed the sensitivity of education as an election year issue in the state.

North County Times
North Star Academy mixes home-schooling with class time
VISTA ---- North Star Academy packs a lot of learning into its three classroom, according to teachers and students at the campus, a resource for home-schooled children with an emphasis on the arts.

Salt Lake Tribune
Students make their voices heard
Latino students from at least 10 area schools marched on the Utah Capitol to protest proposed immigration reforms, marking yet another day of marches on the issue.

San Antonio Express-News
Digital writing gives new meaning to a good read
The relatively young artistic medium is gaining new artists - and audience - every day.

Science of the pickup
2 Clark students show off their findings on how girls react to male attitude.

Teacher certification program started
The program includes course work and a one-year internship.

Seattle Times 
Spokane district halts use of dogs for drug searches
Threatened with a lawsuit, a suburban Spokane school district has agreed to stop using dogs for random drug searches in its middle and high...

St. Louis Post Dispatch 
Many teen athletes use disputed supplement
Disciplinary action against school officials and a coach in Hillsboro over the use of an over-the-counter nutritional supplement, creatine, sparked a student walkout Friday.

Tallahassee Democrat
Rebel sons rally for Confederate tags
Capitol news conferences don't usually start with a former NAACP president leading a blue-and-gray squad of Civil War re-enactors in a chorus of "Dixie," followed by a Rebel yell.

Washington Post
Principals Maneuver Over D.C. Closings
A dozen underenrolled schools might take advantage of an offer by Superintendent Clifford B. Janey to consolidate to avoid being closed.

Wichita Eagle
THE ISSUE: LOCAL STUDENTS MARCH FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
BY ICESS FERNANDEZ, The Wichita Eagle
THE PROBLEM: Many left school without parents' permission THE COMPLICATION: District says adults fueled the truancy Holding flags from the United States, Mexico, Guatemala and several Latin American countries, more than 250 students marched Friday from North and East high schools to City Hall in a call for immigration reform.

International Articles

The Australian
Overdoses spark drugs review
NEW guidelines on prescription drugs and over-the-counter medication will be introduced in all Queensland schools from next term, after 14 students overdosed on Ritalin.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Changing face of screen teachers
BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on what the portrayal of teachers on screen reveals.

Row over 'record' school head ads
Adverts for head teachers have hit a new record, analysts say - but the government disputes it.

The Daily Telegraph (UK) 
Taking the bored out of boards
Interactive screens could help to revolutionise the way lessons are taught. But teachers will need proper training, says Tom Moggach .

The Peninsula
MES School holds workshop for teachers
DOHA: ?eachers' primary responsibility in an educational institution is to create and maintain an academic cliamte throughout that helps them to contribute to the hoilstic development of the pupils' said F M Basheer Ahmed, Principal, MES Indian School

The Toronto Star
New way of life at school
Children face more safety drills, restricted cellphone use