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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Akron Beacon-Journal
Parents, kids, staff push levy at rally
About 200 students, staff and parents attend a rally at Cascade Plaza to urge support of Issue 1, the Akron schools levy.

Baltimore Sun
On course with education
Maryland Science Center is school for kids of Volvo participants while race is in town

School stats skewed in speech to rights group
Gregory Kane
I got a little bone to pick with an hombre what goes by the monicker of Wade Henderson.

Boston Globe
Schools scramble to safeguard computer systems
Private industry long ago adopted safeguards against hacking, but public schools, which just began putting student records online in recent years, are only starting to recognize their vulnerability.

Charlotte Observer
School bond referendum unlikely this year
Panel looking at options to give new leader more time to adjust to CMS
The prospects of seeing a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bond referendum on November's ballot dimmed Friday, as an advisory committee turned its focus to a fallback plan.

Los Angeles Daily News
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.

Miami Herald
Forum tackles discipline, at-risk youths
BY PETER BAILEY
A group of Miami-Dade educators, politicians and juvenile justice officials held a forum on Friday to discuss preventive measures to decrease racial disparities in school discipline.

New York Daily News 
Bloomy sets ringtone: Cell no, kids won't gab
Mayor Bloomberg went on a tear yesterday against cell phones in public schools, putting them in the same banned league as guns, knives and box cutters.

New York Times
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist, Diplomat and Writer
By HOLCOMB B. NOBLE and DOUGLAS MARTINMr. Galbraith, an iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat, was one of the most widely read authors in the history of economics.

On to Oxford With a Little Stop at a French Brothel
By CHARLES McGRATH
Alan Bennett's new Broadway play, "The History Boys," is among other things a guide to other ways of playing the college admissions game.

Orlando Sentinel
Vote bolsters tough limits on class sizes
Senators defeat governor's move to water down requirements
TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Senate dealt Gov. Jeb Bush and fellow Republican legislative leaders a crushing defeat Friday by refusing to put a proposal to weaken the state's tough class-size requirements on the November ballot.

Palm Beach Post
Save Martin's 'cadets': Finance the boot camp
Pardon Sheriff Robert Crowder's skepticism.
Florida has placed a greater priority on warehousing troubled juveniles than helping them avoid crime or rehabilitating them. "We work with the idea that all of these kids can be saved," Sheriff Crowder said. "It's just finding the right mix of treatment."

Providence Journal
Edwatch by Julia Steiny: School in Conn. should be a model for middle schools
"I laugh every day," says East Lyme, Conn., Middle School principal Paul Freeman. Shrugging at his own uncommon appreciation of pubescents, he adds, "I like the age level." Like jalapenos, though, middle-school kids are not to everyone's taste.

Washington Post
Experiments in Learning
By Ian Shapira
In his eternal quest to demystify the nuanced wonders of physics for his students at Gar-Field Senior High School, Bill Willis, 65, has conducted a number of experiments that educate as well as entertain.

Washington Times
MICHAEL J. MCMANUS:  Teens and relationships
Teen birth rates have fallen a third over a decade, yet a third of U.S. teen girls still get pregnant. And half of all first out-of-wedlock births are to teenagers.

International Articles

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Accused teachers 'need shielding'
Teachers should have a legal right to anonymity when they are accused of abusing pupils, the Tories are to say.

School inspections 'humiliating'
Critical school inspections represent a "public humiliation", a head teachers' conference hears.

Call to end testing 'obsession'
The government must end its "continuing obsession" with testing schoolchildren, a head teachers' leader says.

The Gulf Times
Park House students lift inter-school quiz trophy
A VERY deserving Park House English School yesterday walked away with the 10th Ahlibank IWA Inter-School Quiz, pipping the MES Indian School, in an exciting finish which went to the wire. Joe Folly, from Britain, and Canadian Alessandra Robinson of Park House, got their hands on the glittering rolling trophy and the winner's cup by scoring 75 points.

The Peninsula
Independent schools to allow non-Qataris
DOHA: Non-Qatari students can register for admission to the Independent Schools if they come under certain categories announced by the Supreme Education Council (SEC). Registration will start ..............

Sheikha Mozah to open meet
DOHA: H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, Chairperson of the Qatar Foundation, will open the second Innovations in Education (IIE) symposium at the Four Seasons Hotel this evening.

5,158 students take part in Green Qatar campaign
Doha: The `Green and Clean Qatar' programme launched by the Green Qatar centre at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture, turned out to be a big hit with its massive public participation.