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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Arizona Republic
ASU lowers request for tuition hike
ASU blinked. The university lowered its tuition increase proposal to 6.5 percent Tuesday, days before the Arizona Board of Regents will determine next year's tuition rates. The university had been pushing for an 8.5 percent hike.

Group to help the parents of students with special-needs
Peoria parent group starts up support group for parents of children with special needs.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bring back vocational ed the right way
A recent study shows that only about 70 percent of our nation's high school students graduate with regular diplomas. In Georgia, the number is far worse - a mere 56 percent of Georgia's high school students make it through all four years.

Baltimore Sun
Schools to drop appeal
City had been challenging special-education order
Pledging a new spirit of cooperation, the Baltimore school system has agreed to drop its challenge of a federal judge's order for state managers to oversee all departments affecting special education.

Program helps kids make right choice
The future seemed about the last thing on 13-year-old Adam's mind as he sat slouched on the couch beside his parents in their Northeast Baltimore rowhouse, twirling his hat on his index finger.

Boston Globe
State unlikely to raise MCAS passing score
MALDEN -- Reversing an earlier pledge to set a higher MCAS bar, state education officials said yesterday that they will probably not raise the passing score on the statewide tests that high school students must take to graduate, and instead will increase required courses for struggling students.

Harvard author's apology not accepted
The publisher of the books Kaavya Viswanathan is accused of plagiarizing angrily dismissed yesterday her assertion that she unconsciously and accidentally duplicated numerous passages.

Study: Incentives and therapy help users kick marijuana habit
LITTLE ROCK -- A combination of therapy and incentives -- such as clothing and movie tickets -- can be successful in helping someone kick a marijuana addiction, according to a new study.

Boston Herald
Gag rule on truth taints student silence
Those Lexington High students who'll opt to button their lips today, ostensibly conveying support of gays and lesbians...

Chicago Tribune 
Educators: Don't take kids to work
While millions of children head to work with their parents Thursday, some educators are discouraging families from taking part in the national "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" day, saying low school attendance cuts into their already tight budgets.

Deseret News
Schools at a loss: How districts handle teen deaths varies
George and Darla Serassio would have liked the opportunity to clean out their son's school locker.

Detroit News
Maryland teacher ranks as best in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- She may have just 15 students in her Maryland kindergarten class, but the students Kimberly Oliver teaches represent nearly every continent on the globe.

eSchool News
Feds level more eRate charges
Houston company, former school tech director are latest targets in federal investigation

Herald Tribune
Legislature moves anti-bully bill along
TALLAHASSEE -- Bobbie Bean's son was beaten unconscious by a classmate, first on the school bus and then in the locker room.

Houston Chronicle
Police to study Madison tape after sex allegations
Houston vice investigators will watch a video taken at a Madison High School-sponsored dance to search for criminal activity after media reports that DVD copies sold on campus depicted students engaged in sexual acts.

Colleges use growing popularity of iPods as teaching aid
Colleges are using the growing popularity of iPods as a teaching aid
MIAMI - Stroll onto any college campus and you'll see iPods galore.

Indianapolis Star-Tribune
IPS will revamp its middle schools
Changes include removing 6th-graders, adding tests, unifying curriculum IPS will overhaul its middle schools next year, dropping sixth-graders and creating a uniform curriculum. The changes are intended to halt a decline in performance when students hit middle school and were approved by the Indianapolis Public Schools Board on Tuesday.

IU study: 23% not ready for college
More freshmen are having to take remedial classes at state's public schools Nearly a quarter of freshmen at Indiana's public colleges and universities are so unprepared that they need help with lessons they should have learned in high school, according to an Indiana University study.

Inside Higher ED
New Take on the Gender Gap  
3 Harvard economists add historic context - some of it surprising - to the issue of dwindling male enrollments.

Next Big Thing for Community Colleges?  
Officials want to upgrade "2+2? vocational programs to more sophisticated collaborations between secondary and postsecondary ed.

Academics In Charge at B-Schools  
Study shows that top business schools favor scholars when hiring deans

Los Angeles Times
L.A. Unified Achieves Quality in Quantity
By Hemmy So The state names 32 campuses as California Distinguished Schools, almost triple the district's highest previous number.

Miami Herald
School Board considers housing bonuses to lure teachers
BY MATTHEW I. PINZUR
To buy her one-bedroom condominium in Hialeah, fifth-grade teacher Loliette Araluce had to do without everything else. Her mortgage, taxes and association dues total about $1,300 a month, she said, and the rest of her $34,371 salary goes mainly to groceries and utilities.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MPS budget drama unfolds
At a time when nearly everyone agrees resources are limited, is it fair to spend more money on some students because their school offers an arguably more expensive specialty program?

New York Daily News 
Teach bound kids, cops say
A Brooklyn public schoolteacher bound two special education students to their chairs and sealed their mouths shut with duct tape, authorities said yesterday.

New York Post
COPS SET TO CONFISCATE CLASS IPODS
By DAVID ANDREATTA City middle- and high-school students who dare to carry cellphones, iPods or other MP3 players to class could be in for a rude awakening this morning - when police begin confiscating the items in random searches.

Randi Gets Real
For a few hours Monday, New Yorkers got a pure dose of Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers.

New York Times
At Decision Time, Colleges Lay On Charm
By ALAN FINDER
As students apply to more colleges, admissions deans must recruit the undecided more aggressively to be sure of filling their incoming classes.

In College Entrance Frenzy, a Lesson Out of Left Field
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Under the pretense of fair competition, tens of thousands of high school students and their families employ the scholastic equivalent of steroids.

Student-Driven Sudan Divestment Campaign Grows
By PHILIP RUCKER
Universities have divested themselves of endowment assets in companies doing business in Sudan, after pressure from students to take a financial stand against violence in Darfur.

Adults' Differing Perceptions Make It Hard to Read Johnny
By JOHN O'NEIL
A mother, a father and a teacher sit down for a conference. A question soon arises: Are they talking about the same child?

Brand U.
By STEPHEN BUDIANSKY
The way universities prostitute themselves to keep up a healthy supply of tuition-paying students is getting pretty hard to satire.

Oregon Register-Guard
JC transfers making progress
Oregon's junior college transfers continue to make a case for playing time in the fall, and that was no more obvious in Tuesday's practice than when cornerback Jameel Dowling stood up 234-pound running back Jonathan Stewart just short of the goal line on a run around end.

Palm Beach Post
Reject stealth voucher bill
Gov. Bush started the "Just Read, Florida!" program. But the Legislature is considering voucher bills that show why it isn't enough to "just read." Floridians have to think about what they read.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Explicit ranking of high school girls sparks outrage in Mt. Lebanon
The Mt. Lebanon School District and Mt. Lebanon police are investigating the distribution of an anonymous document that features sexually explicit descriptions of 25 girls at the high school.

Richmond Times Dispatch
Latinos uncertain whether to protest
Leidy Romero, 17, plans to participate in "A Day Without Immigrants," national work stoppage and school boycott set for Monday.

Sacramento Bee
A lit class a kid could love
Willie MacGurkle, his nose painted purple, walked into the classroom. One eye was orange, the other was green. He was the funniest teacher his students had seen. Yellow hair hung down like straw on his head. He was dressed in brown with patches of red.

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Students have the write stuff
Sophomores pass basic skills writing test at record rate
BY MEGAN BOLDT, Pioneer Press
This year's high school sophomores posted the highest passing rate on Minnesota's basic skills writing test, according to results released Tuesday by state education officials.

Shift in funding leaves gaps
Magnets lose priority for integration dollars
A change in the way state integration funds are distributed means hundreds of thousands of dollars less for some St. Paul schools and more for others as the district whittles $8 million this spring from its 2006-07 budget.

Salt Lake Tribune
Leaving no child behind
Education gap: Utah's graduation imbalance; Educators go the extra mile to see minorities succeed
Everyone wants to find the "magic dust" - the formula for keeping minority students in school, says Grace Huerta. Huerta doesn't have the recipe, but she knows many of the ingredients.

San Antonio Express-News
Forum to highlight child illnesses
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression and bipolar illness will be explored.

Teacher pay raise to go on tax bill
But Senate would need to rework finance overhaul to fund them

Seattle Times 
Seattle's Discovery Institute scrambling to rebound after intelligent-design ruling
When a federal judge stopped intelligent design from being taught in a Pennsylvania school district in December, the concept's chief advocates...

Tallahassee Democrat
Boot camps to be shut down
Heralding "a new day" in juvenile justice, House and Senate budget negotiators agreed Tuesday to close all boot camps and replace them with "a softer, gentler approach" for steering kids away from crime.

Black caucus objects to school-board measure
Voters would get to pick the leaders of their local school boards under a controversial measure the House approved Tuesday, over the heated objections of black lawmakers.

Tampa10
Dad shoots at computer, saying son spends too much time playing games
Dunedin, Florida - A Dunedin dad probably made his point about his son spending too much time on the computer. Pinellas Sheriff's deputies say he shot at the monitor as his son sat near-by. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Langenderfer was arrested Monday afternoon at his home on Frances Street.

USA Today 
Meth's impact on children probed Former users testify before Senate panel
By Wendy Koch
WASHINGTON - Alison Bruno was 13 when her mother, a drug addict, offered her methamphetamine

Washington Post
Fashion Sashays Into the Curriculum:  Academy's Students Cap Courses With Runway Debut Tonight

Higher Teacher Pensions Enacted in Md.:  Ehrlich Also Signs Bill Requiring Defibrillators in Public High Schools

Preschool Space Is at a Premium:  New Sites Hard to Find in Area

Washington Times
Students' lesson is money in the bank
By Kara Rowland
Tatevik Markarayan is like any other bank assistant manager. She greets customers as they approach the teller window, oversees the opening of new accounts and helps other employees close up shop at the end of the business day.

Wichita Eagle
Don't get caught in a scholarship scam
Knight Ridder/Tribune
Academic scholarships and grants have long helped families defray the cost of sending a child to college.

Wilmington News Journal
Audit finds Christina millions in debt
State takeover discussed as district faces financial crisis unparalleled in Delaware history

International Articles

The Arab News
More Saudi Women Seek Employment, Says Educationist
According to the dean of the Dar Al-Hekma College, more than ever before women are looking to try something new: employment. "There is a noticeable growth in women job...

Abandoned Children Face Social Taboos
Each year, among the children who lose their parents and are cared for at orphanages are a few children who are abandoned, many a few weeks or days old. They get the needed...

The Australian
An errant child no longer a 'bad' one
THE days of children being either good or bad are over as experts develop child-rearing jargon for the new millennium.

The Guardian 
Education concessions aim to prevent rebellion
Education: Promise that over 140 local education authorities may enter into competitions to set up and run schools.

The Gulf Times
Qatar to provide 'attractive environment' for scientists Qatar is committed to providing an attractive environment for Arab scientists so as to benefit from their expertise, the Founding Conference for Expatriate Arab Scientists, which completed its second day yesterday, was told.

The Independent (UK)
Businesses 'inappropriate' to sponsor schools listed
Ministers spelt out for the first time yesterday the type of companies that would be "inappropriate" to run one of Tony Blair's new breed of independently run "trust" schools.

Businesses told to think again about academy sponsorship
Businesses are warned today by a group of financial experts to think again before sponsoring one of Prime Minister Tony Blair's flagship academies.

The Korea Herald
State to invest 2.3 trillion won in education projects
The Education Ministry today announced it has selected 568 research teams from 74 universities to share a 2.3 trillion-won ($2.2 billion) ...

The Peninsula
Disband Arab League, says majority at Doha Debates
DOHA: Majority of the participants at Qatar Foundation's Doha Debates yesterday felt that it is time to disband the Arab League.
The motion for disbanding this only pan-Arab body was passed with ..............

Experts discuss partnership issues
DOHA: 'The Founding Conference for Expatriate Arab Scientists' which ends here today is aimed at creating a partnership between the Qatar Foundation (QF) and expatriate Arab scientists. However, even if Qatar was ready to give the expats a passport, would they be willing to give up their nationality was a question posed at a press conference yaterday.