Daily EducationNews.org
Friday, April 28, 2006

Arizona Republic
Regents OK tuition hikes up to 6.5%
Arizona university students will pay up to 6.5 percent higher tuition next year and could face steeper increases in future years if state higher-education funding doesn't grow faster.

Boston Globe
When parents' values conflict with public schools
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist 
OF THE FIVE candidates running to succeed Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts, all but one have chosen to send their children to private schools. Nothing wrong with that -- millions of parents would move their kids out of public schools tomorrow if they thought they could afford something better.

Lawmakers push for hike in school aid
Under pressure from angry parents, educators, and town officials, the Legislature is poised to add millions more in funding for schools, the largest jump since the economy went into a tailspin in 2002.

NCAA ready to take on 'diploma mills'
INDIANAPOLIS -- High schools and prep schools with questionable academic standards will now have to prove their legitimacy to the NCAA if they want their student-athletes to be eligible when they enter college.

Novel by Harvard student is pulled from stores
NEW YORK -- A teen novel containing admittedly borrowed material has been pulled from the market. Author Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard University sophomore, had acknowledged that numerous passages in "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" were lifted from another writer.

MIT pulls Web page after complaints from Chinese students
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken down a history course Web page after a 19th century wood-print image of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese prisoners sparked complaints from Chinese students and led to an apology from one of the course's professors.

Chicago Tribune 
Blago goes to school with ads
The governor used a Chicago public school to tape attack ads despite a policy that prohibits political activities on school grounds.

Columbus Dispatch
Schools have more money despite charter drain
Extra state aid, tax funds helping in Columbus School districts have long blamed charter schools for their money problems.
Although they are losing thousands of students -- and the more than $5,000 in state money that follows each one ?? to charters, some districts actually have more money now than they did before charter schools opened, a Dispatch analysis found.

Dallas Morning News
New drug craze hits DISD
Drug dealers are mixing small amounts of heroin with crushed Tylenol PM tablets and selling it cheap at Dallas schools, the newest low-cost high available to kids.

Des Moines Register
Students, put away your iPods
iPods, digital music players popular with teens, could join the list of items that teachers may confiscate from Johnston High School students next school year

Deseret News
Activists offer help, hope: But programs struggle to find funding and support
The mantra for Utahns dedicated to finding ways to keep children from killing themselves is: Suicide is not an option.

Ed-funding effort slips
Utah's school funding motto for years has gone something like this: "We're last in the country, but boy, we sure try hard."

eSchool News
Technology creates lectures on demand
Classroom video system captures lectures, lessons for online review

Houston Chronicle
TAKS to gauge success of changes
Sam Houston, Kashmere have faith in overhauls
Educators are hoping a yearlong effort to improve Kashmere and Sam Houston high schools will be enough to help both campuses shake their "academically unacceptable" ratings.

Indianapolis Star-Tribune
Variety of tests in store for IPS board
For Indianapolis Public School Board candidates, winning a seat Tuesday may be the least of their difficulties. A budget shortfall, decreasing enrollment, planned teacher layoffs and the challenges of a wave of new programs await board members once they take office.

Inside Higher ED
Spaced Out  
Like many urban institutions, Columbia needs new facilities for science - but legacy of 1968 reverberates when facing its Harlem neighbors.

NCAA Homes In on High Schools  
Presidents also approve review of why baseball players are struggling academically.

Trying to Raise the Stakes at NYU  
New president of AAUP is arrested in protest to back TA union - and seeks to have professors join "personal boycott."

Ledger
Move to the Head of the Class
LAKELAND -- Guess who's having the best week ever?
Educator extraordinaire Sam Bennett.
On a whirlwind tour of the nation's capital as Polk's and Florida's Teacher of the Year, he's already scored a new job and met the president.

Los Angeles Daily News
L.A. schools flunk public opinion test
SACRAMENTO - Californians have a low opinion of the state's education system, with residents of Los Angeles taking a dimmer view of their public schools than those in any other region, a poll released Thursday says. 

Charter revolution
Anyone who doubts the profound effects of charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District ought to take a look at Parkman Middle School in Woodland Hills.

Los Angeles Times
School Interpreters' Goal: Being Word Perfect
By Hemmy So
L.A. Unified unit helps non-English-speaking parents understand necessary information. Colloquialisms and jargon can be hurdles.

L.A. Mayor Endorses Preschool Measure
By Seema Mehta
Surrounded by parents and students at a charter school in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday endorsed the universal preschool measure on the June 6 ballot

Miami Herald
Women are besting men in college
BY NOAH BIERMAN
As college graduation season begins this weekend, look for women at the front of the processions, raking in the academic honors. Following a national trend, women are making up an ever-growing majority of the graduating classes in South Florida colleges and universities. And even more of those women are graduating at the top of the class.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Students reveling in Playboy exposure
Insecurity does not seem to bedevil 19 female students at UW-Madison who get bucky naked or nearly so in the May issue of Playboy and its glossy tribute to America's top 10 party schools.

New York Times
Duke Accuser Filed Earlier Assault Report
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
The woman who has accused three lacrosse players of raping her claimed more than a decade ago that she was sexually assaulted by three men.

Annenberg Grant to Help Smaller Schools
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
The group receiving the grant has helped create 112 of the more than 200 small schools that have opened throughout New York City since 1993.

City Schools Cut Parents' Lifeline (the Cellphone)
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
Parents said cellphones, which are technically banned in city public schools, are essential for maintaining a daily link to their children.

Top School Aide Becomes the Latest to Step Down
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Carme Fariña's retirement is the latest and most prominent in a series of changes to Chancellor Joel I. Klein's leadership team since the start of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's second term.

Orlando Sentinel
Setting a course
School boards in large urban counties are like rudderless cruise liners: big, bulky and pushed about by political tides.

Palm Beach Post
Voucher controls within reach
Lawmakers close in on tighter controls for how state money is spent.

Philadelphia Daily News
U.P. student claims haze crime
By DAN GERINGER
ALLEGING THAT he was severely beaten and "branded" by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers during an illegal hazing incident, a Penn student is suing his attackers, the local chapter and the national organization in federal court.

Philadelphia Inquirer
A $100 million incentive to improve teaching
The new federal initiative will be used to fund merit rewards for improving student performance. Philadelphia will seek a share.
By Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer
In a visit to Philadelphia yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings touted a $100 million federal fund to reward teachers and principals who raise student

Rocky Mountain News
DPS serves up lunch plan
An effort to improve attendance in Denver high schools means that some students will get to eat out for lunch this fall and some won't.

Rutland Herald 
Governor, chancellor at odds on colleges
MONTPELIER - Ever since he began plugging his $175 million scholarship program, Gov. James Douglas has hinted that failure to pass it could imperil the futures of at least two of the state's public colleges.

Sacramento Bee
Gay rights face-off
The national debate over gay rights became a divisive force on Sacramento-area school campuses this week, as religious Christian students wore T-shirts expressing their...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
'School is the key,' astronaut tells kids
Carey returns to his high school to tout math, science
BY DOUG BELDEN, Pioneer Press
It was perfect weather Thursday for former astronaut Duane Carey's return to Highland Park Senior High, and he started the morning on the launch pad.

Salt Lake Tribune
Latino businesses, students back boycott
Latinos community leaders in Utah are divided in their approach to a boycott of work and school on Monday, but many Latino students and business owners say they plan to participate.  

San Antonio Express-News
Schools may face tougher sanctions
State senator wants more accountability than feds require.

An education in exercise
Experts want to see more kids walking, biking to school.

San Diego Union Tribune 
College students warned about mumps
When tens of thousands of local college students open their e-mail over the next few days, they are likely to see an advisory about a disease thought to have largely disappeared before they were born.

Mentors put young minds on track toward college
GEAR UP administrator Ricardo Navarrette reviewed California Standards Tests scores with Preston Tou

San Jose Mercury 
School officials to students: Don't skip classes for immigration rallies
Silicon Valley and state education officials are urging students to wait until after school on Monday to join organized demonstrations against proposed immigration reform.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
SPU, students angered by Web site
A Web site that pits more than 60 Seattle Pacific University students against one another in a competition for the "hottest" woman on campus has sparked outrage at the Christian college

Star Tribune
Tutoring didn't pay off in city, analysis finds
The dominant provider of required after-school tutoring in Minneapolis -- Catapult Learning, paid $1.7 million last year -- didn't produce any better reading gains last year than those for students who skipped tutoring.

Washington Post
School Land Will Be Transferred to Fairfax
Fairfax school board votes unanimously to turn over 12 unneeded school-owned properties to the county in return for a $150M boost in bond funding for construction, building maintenance.

Md. Superintendent Finalists Evaluated
Three finalists meet in Annapolis with school board members, who say they will decide next week which one they wish to hire.

International Articles

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
'Hundreds' of schools lack heads
Up to half a million pupils are in schools without permanent head teachers, research suggests.

Rise in number of large classes
The number of oversized school classes for five to seven-year-olds has risen, figures show.

Fees 'would deter many students
' A third of final year students say tuition fees of £3,000 a year would have put them off going to university.

The Globe and Mail
B.C., teachers likely to butt heads again on class size
ELIANNA LEV 
VANCOUVER -- The provincial government and the teachers' union appear set to wage battle again on the subject of class sizes after the Liberals introduced legislation yesterday imposing limits that are higher than what the union has been demanding.

The Guardian 
Primary schools have 29,000 pupils in classes of over 30
Education: Government accused of failing to meet pledge to reduce primary school class sizes.

The Independent (UK)
Class sizes soar in infant schools despite pledge in 1997
The number of infant school classes with more than 30 pupils has soared 25 per cent in the past year, figures have shown.