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Monday, April 24, 2006
Arizona Republic
Real-life lessons: Teens learn of relationship violence
Before we parents let our teenagers get a driver's license, we typically make sure they have some sort of training. Over dinner we hold forth about safety, and while they're watching TV we quiz them about the rules of the road.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Schrenko poised for trial
Former schools superintendent charged with stealing $600,000 in federal funds.
Help boys reach school finish line
Pull out all stops to develop strategies that close gender gap in graduation rates
Tuition cap could hurt some
Changing majors or transferring could trigger hefty fifth-year tab.
Baltimore Sun
Put me in, coach: I aced the Wonderlic
Gregory Kane
To: Ozzie Newsome, general manager of the Baltimore Ravens , and Brian Billick, head coach
Boston Globe
Lexington gay rights event fuels debate
'Day of Silence' at high school expected to draw protesters
LEXINGTON -- School leaders are bracing for protesters at the high school on Wednesday, when some students will be participating in a ''Day of Silence," an annual national event in which the participants do not talk to one another to sympathize with gays and lesbians.
Enter Horace Mann
THE ANNUAL assault on Massachusetts charter schools is underway with a proposed amendment to the House budget that could jeopardize funding for students attending the 49 autonomous schools. Having failed in an earlier attempt to impose a moratorium on charter schools, opponents now seek to suppress the movement by capping the payments that charter schools receive from school districts at $5,000 per student.
She studies brains; takes stands, too
So you say you never forget a face. It's Nancy Kanwisher's goal to figure out why.
Chicago Sun-Times
State set to ban lead in consumer goods for kids
The dangers of lead poisoning go beyond traditional worries about lead-based paint, as evidenced by the recent death of a 4-year-old Minnesota boy who swallowed a lead-filled trinket that has since been recalled.
College bans MySpace.com to speed up computers
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school's system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com.
Dallas Morning News
Security breached on 200,000 UT records
For Addison school, its sale could be its savior
Walden Preparatory School, like its 19th century namesake, is a free-thinker's paradise.
Deseret News
Academy might expand
American Preparatory Academy in Jordan School District could be expanding with another campus on Traverse Mountain's rapidly growing development just inside the Alpine School District - if leaders of the charter school think they can pull it off in three months.
eSchool News
Webcasts connect kids to science, nature
Two separate events on April 25 use technology to inform, inspire students
Herald Tribune
Parents request Spanish classes
PUNTA GORDA -- If her mother's plan is successful, 5-year-old Vanessa Vicente will be speaking Spanish before her sixth birthday.
Houston Chronicle
Fired Katy teacher wants more time to plan her appeal
She wants time to plan her appeal after Katy district fired her for taping her pupils' mouths
A Katy teacher who put Scotch tape over some students' mouths to quiet them wants more time to plan for a hearing to appeal the school board's decision to fire her.
Kids should pick a college major while in high school
By MEGHAN DAUM
Here's an idea for avoiding impractical well-roundedness
THE Florida Legislature is closing in on a law that would require students to declare a major and a minor when they enter high school.
Indianapolis Star-Tribune
Nurse shortage is ailing schools
Principals, secretaries try to fill void in some cash-strapped schools A fifth-grader popped into Rae Wallis' office in need of a Band-Aid. Before she could wrap it around his finger, a stream of children entered the room.
To some, MySpace is Net's dark side
Web site's easy access to personal info draws millions of teens, worries their parents
MySpace.com caught Kevin Koers' attention months ago. The principal at Indianapolis' Franklin Central High School became alarmed when he saw some of his students' entries on the increasingly popular Internet site.
ISTAR test may cause schools to fail
For 1st time, results to be counted for disabled, new English speakers Indiana schools will be judged for the first time this year by the test scores of children who are severely disabled or barely speak English, under a piece of federal law that administrators worry will sink their reputations.
Inside Higher ED
The Eroding Faculty Paycheck
Inflation outpaced professorial raises for second year in a row. Plus lists of highest and lowest salary averages.
Spicing Up U.S. History
Professors consider ways to improve the content and teaching of survey courses.
Campus Mumps Outbreak Spreads
Infections that started at Iowa institutions are now spreading throughout the Midwest and as far as Pennsylvania.
Ledger
College Officials Talk of Changes
LAKELAND -- One of the biggest issues facing Polk's colleges is the shift from a traditional two-semester college year to class schedules that meet the needs of all students, said college officials last week at a panel to discuss the changing face of higher education.
Los Angeles Daily News
LAUSD's takeover political
Shame on you, Mr. Mayor. There is an ancient Greek word, hubris, which dates back to Homer's "Odyssey" that is "associated with the lack of knowledge, overconfidence and lack of humility."
Los Angeles Times
Some Parents Bugged by New Rule on Head Lice
By Tanya Caldwell
The L.A. school district's policy allows students with treated nits in their hair to attend classes. Critics say the eggs can hatch and then spread.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Testing theory or testing patience?
With leaders in the voucher movement promising to take a hard line on troubled schools when it comes to a new accreditation requirement, the leaders of some schools face a choice: Shape up or get out.
Mobile Register
School construction pumps millions into local economy
New York Daily News
Kings of HS chess
Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School chess team scored a checkmate last night as it captured another national title. The team from Midwood won the National High School Chess Championship for the third straight year.
Break addiction to senseless war on drugs
Stanley Crouch: In the ongoing battle over the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the Food and Drug Administration has now shown that ideology can bend almost anything to its will.
New York Times
College, My Way
By KATE ZERNIKE
Today's campus-hopping millennials want the right program, the best schedule, the perfect fit. If at first you don't succeed, try again -- someplace else.
Lost, Alone and Not a Freshman
By LAURA PAPPANO
Can't find the dining hall. Don't know the lingo. Transfers just want friends.
The Final Four
By PETER APPLEBOME
With national alarm about underperforming boys, the few remaining men's colleges find themselves relevant again.
The Student Body
By JODI RUDOREN
Racy campus magazines prove at least one thing: these geeks aren't geeks.
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Executive?
By WILLIAM FERGUSON
Student-run record labels are not exactly hit factories, but what do expect for three credit hours?
When the Best Is Not Good Enough
By PAULA MARANTZ COHEN
Sending a child to an elite college isn't life or death. Why do we think it is?
Rejected? At This Age?
By SUSAN BRENNA
Some top-tier adult programs may be selective, but this time they'll help you get in.
Taming the Monster
By SAMANTHA STAINBURN
With all the competition over getting into great colleges, applicants want to make sure they've done enough. But how much is too much?
Everybody's a Critic
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Few professors escape the wrath of ratings sites. But now they're talking back.
Orlando Sentinel
Adult ADHD focus of medical debate
Marilyn Hochman was in her early 40s when she first realized that she had a childhood disorder.
Palm Beach Post
PBC principals could lose jobs over second D grade
Superintendent stands by position that double-D schools get a new administrator.
He majors in tinkering
Education "reform" bills in the Florida House and Senate would require high school seniors to select a major course of study, but that's just one headline item.
Philadelphia Daily News
Schools, trades in apprentice deal
By MENSAH M. DEAN
After more than a year of talking - sometimes caustically - the city school district and the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council are set to strike a deal that will result in up to 400 graduates entering trade apprenticeships over the next four years.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Studies show women don't savor competition and suffer as a result
When Lise Vesterlund came to the United States to study economics about 15 years ago, "one of the first things I saw was that the female graduate students didn't ask questions in class."
Providence Journal
URI borrows page from telemarketers to recruit students
SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- In an effort to boost enrollment, the University of Rhode Island has begun phone-a-thons this spring, asking professors to call prospective students and encourage them to attend the university.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Ritual of love Breaking the silence between a boy and his family
Until then, Zack's parents couldn't communicate with their only son, who was diagnosed at age 2 with autism by a pediatric specialist.
Rocky Mountain News
Wildlife closes in on grade school
Prairie dogs - and little pellets of their poop - are just a basketball-bounce away from kindergartners on the Monarch K-8 school playground.
San Antonio Express-News
UT-Austin investigates breach of records
Nearly 200,000 electronic records belonging to students, staff and alumni at the University of Texas at Austin's business school have been illegally accessed, the school said Sunday.
San Diego Union Tribune
About half of college freshmen fail to graduate within six years
Quitting the books
Fernando Escobar knew as a teenager, scrubbing toilets and floors beside his parents, that he wanted a college education.
Seattle Times
Early test for new school official
Seattle's new chief academic officer, Carla Santorno, started making plans to reorganize her staff before she finished unpacking the boxes...
Tallahassee Democrat
FAMU senior tries for religious experience through his studies
While attending Florida A&M University, Joel Floyd, 24, decided he wanted to ditch his original plans of getting a bachelor's degree in English and then going to law school.
USA Today
Duke alumni defend school at reunion Some question media coverage of scandal
By Tim Peeler
DURHAM, N.C. - The national furor surrounding their men's lacrosse team did not dissuade a near-record number of Duke graduates from returning to their alma mater for a three-day reunion weekend. But it certainly generated plenty of conversation.
As boys slip behind, some feminists reject helping them Backlash recalls fight a generation ago over attempts to help girls in schools.
With its powerhouse basketball teams, famed chemistry department and high rankings in college surveys, the University of North Carolina shouldn't be lacking for qualified male applicants. But UNC's current freshman class is 60% female.
Problems plague both sexes
Recent reports on male students' crisis in schools are overly simplistic, divisive.
By Marcia Greenberger
Recent media reports about the "boy crisis" explore an important issue, but their generally overly simplistic and divisive presentation does a disservice to boys, girls and all those who care about both quality and equality in education.
Wall Street Journal
Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire a notorious anti-Israel professor.
John Fund
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi's luck is running out. Eight weeks ago the Taliban diplomat turned special Yale student made a media splash on the cover of the New York Times magazine in which he proclaimed:
Washington Post
Students Learning on Their Own Terms
Md. School with no curriculum challenges the assumptions of every public or private school that measures success with test scores and prizes academic rigor.
Perry's Arrest Tinges School Board Race
It's been two years since her DUI, but some still believe that an immediate search for a new school superintendent is a top priority.
Teens' Suicides Breed Anxiety: Md. Community Ponders Pressures
Wilmington News Journal
In Del., minority teachers hard to find
"The bottom line is that I care about my students"
In a country school at Slaughter Neck, 5-year-old Diaz Bonville learned to overcome his stuttering with the help of his first-grade teacher.
WorldNet Daily
Mandatory 'diversity seminar' at university where profs 'banned' 'Marketing of Evil'
Freshmen required to undergo homosexual indoctrination
The lock-step faculty support for the two openly homosexual professors who led the charge against the librarian might have something to do with the fact that freshmen at the small Mansfield campus of Ohio State University are required, during their first quarter, to undergo what the university calls a "diversity seminar."
International Articles
The Age
Missing in action
Leigh Parry reports on why men are turning away from a career in the classroom.
Learning from the best
A new study reveals what makes a great teacher, reports Caroline Milburn.
Students say what matters in life
Jennifer Cook meets four students willing to scrutinise the Federal Government's 'values' program.
The doctorate of mind over matter
A thesis on the disability of our market economy has broken new ground, writes Adam Morton.
A case of horses for courses
Leigh Parry reports on an equestrian program that's a runaway success.
Basin at boiling point
Why is water becoming such a political issue?
School peels away the padding
Felicia Webb visits a US school that is helping students lose weight.
Twelve students, one teacher: nice odds
Teachers from a Catholic diocese in northern Victoria visit Canadian schools to study "self-directed learning".
Notebook
Perhaps Julie Bishop should have stressed the importance of correct spelling during a recent interview on ABC radio.
Third degree
The institution bigwigs and the academics' union at the University of Ballarat return to the bargaining table.
Quandary
ENTER scores alone are not good predictors of success in life after secondary school.
Fiery debate
The heat is on over a protest camp, writes Ben Haywood.
Showcasing unis when price is right
Regulation forces newer universities to offer less value for money.
Death resurrects a passionate life
In Lantana , love is rekindled amid tragedy and betrayal, writes Avril Moore.
The Arab News
Students Win Case Against University
The Court of Grievances has found the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University guilty of defrauding a number of students who completed an English diploma course, Asharq Al-Awsat...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Cameron to target school run
The Tory leader says he would offer incentives for green car use and target the school run in a bid to cut emissions.
The Guardian
Stuff the kids
Eric Schlosser reveals how the fast-food industry exploits its key audience - the very young.
The Independent (Bangladesh)
Britain leads WB push to put every child in school
Britain yesterday appealed to its rich partners to end the "scandal" of 100 million children in developing countries who are deprived of an education ....
The Independent (UK)
Women better at finding jobs
Male graduates are far more likely to remain unemployed than females, according to research published yesterday.
The Peninsula
Swiss official takes a tour of Education City
DOHA: The President of the Swiss Confederation Moritz Leuenberger, who was on an official visit to Qatar, visited the Education City on Saturday.
Immigrant Arab scientists' meet to discuss partnership with Qatar Foundation
DOHA: The Founding Conference for Expatriate Arab Scientists, which begins at the Doha Sheraton this morning, is expected to come out with an action plan for partnership between the Qatar Foundation and the immigrant Arab scientists and researchers across the globe.
The Press New Zealand
NZ schools await new S Korean students
Thousands more students from South Korea are expected to flock to New Zealand this year, taking advantage of the weak New Zealand dollar.
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