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Friday, April 7, 2006

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Replace booze with books at UGA
The University of Georgia cannot become a great academic institution until it sheds its reputation as a place where students come to party rather than learn.

Baltimore Sun
Schools plan raises concern
City Council shows signs of rebellion over moratorium

Boston Globe
Lawmakers want junk food out of schools
By Libby Quaid
WASHINGTON -- Trying to shrink the growing waistlines of children, lawmakers want to expel soda, candy bars, chips and other junk food from the nation's schools.

Harvard search is questioned
Harvard graduate student leaders yesterday demanded a seat on the search committee that will help select the university's next president.

Charlotte Observer
Grier quits superintendent race
Guilford County Schools chief Terry Grier withdrew today as a candidate for CMS superintendent.

Chicago Sun-Times
Kids: Beef up security, add ways to let off steam
Kennedy High School students brainstormed Thursday on how to improve their school, suggesting everything from replacing a "mom squad'' of security guards with a carefully trained detail to offering tae kwon do and boxing classes to relieve student aggression.

Cincinnati Enquirer
Educators attend Harvard 'learning lab'
BLUE ASH - Sycamore Schools Superintendent Karen Mantia and a team of administrators are attending a three-day Harvard Graduate School of Education seminar on changing the way schools educate...

Columbus Dispatch
No second-chance test
State to redesign writing section after high-schoolers overlooked question More than 5,300 Ohio students might have overlooked an essay question last month on the writing section of the Ohio Graduation Test, the Ohio Department of Education says.

Contra Costa Times
Parents, students decry exit exam
By Shirley Dang, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Students, parents and education advocates rallied in Richmond on Wednesday to oppose the high school exit exam required for a diploma starting this year.

Cybercast News Service

Dallas Morning News

Democrat and Chronicle

Denver Post
Experience mix made Brown CU's pick
The University of Colorado's pick of former U.S. Sen. Hank Brown as its sole presidential candidate reflects a national trend to find college leaders with political savvy rather than traditional academic experience, education experts said Thursday.

Churchill defends classroom politics
At a debate Thursday night with conservative author David Horowitz, University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill said that it's virtually impossible to separate politics from the classroom. He also offered a qualified defense of the Colorado high school teacher who ignited a firestorm for comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. 

eSchool News
W.Va. focuses on 21st-century learning
State ahead of the curve in training teachers to prepare students for new challenges

Houston Chronicle
Audit: Contract didn't allow for $647,949 of Slade's TSU spending
Texas Southern University President Priscilla Slade spent nearly $650,000 during the past seven years on personal purchases not allowed under her contract, according to the school's internal auditor.

Some criticized Perry's classroom spending proposal as putting sports before education
Some criticized Perry's classroom spending proposal as putting sports before education

Poll finds HISD workers like jobs, not pay

Students who march Monday face citation, suspension
HISD and other districts say those attending rally on immigration could be cited, suspended

Inside Higher ED
Coalescing Around Concepts  
As U.S. higher ed panel takes first shot at goal setting goals, helping students tops the list, and accountability lags.

David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill  
It was billed as academe's royal rumble, but did it live up to the hype?

Trading Research for Teaching  
Carl Wieman changed physics, and now his sights are set on science pedagogy.

Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: 'You mean I actually have to pay for this?'
You see today's teens chatting and sending text messages on cell phones, listening to music on iPods, snatching up the hottest new video games, buying designer clothes and driving new cars, and you wonder, "Where does their money come from?"

Los Angeles Daily News
Teachers called key to reforms
Head of LAUSD board says hiring better instructors should be focus
Despite high-profile attention over Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's call for a takeover of Los Angeles Unified, school board President Marlene Canter on Thursday urged officials to focus on other areas for reforming the district, including the quality of teachers.

Los Angeles Times
Players' prospects
By Chris Pasles With more music school graduates than jobs, what does their future hold?

New York Post
PRINCIPAL RIPS CHARTER 'FOOLS'
By DAVID ANDREATTA Education Reporter An ugly war of words erupted yesterday between a Manhattan principal bent on protecting her turf from a charter school and a city Department of Education set on expanding school choice.

New York Times
Virtual Schools, Real Innovation
By ANDREW J. ROTHERHAM
Why won't teachers' unions allow change that helps students?
A WISCONSIN court rejected a high-profile lawsuit by the state's largest teachers' union last month seeking to close a public charter school that offers all its courses online on the ground that it violated state law by depending on parents rather than on certified teachers to educate children.

Duke Grappling With Impact of Scandal on Its Reputation
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Officials fear that accusations of sexual assault have tapped into underlying issues of race, class, sex and privilege, putting the university's success at risk.

To Some in Hartford, Coke Is a Real Evil Thing
By STACEY STOWE
The beverage company is being painted as a villain in Connecticut's battle to bring healthier foods to schoolchildren.

Council Speaker Urges More Spending on Education
By SEWELL CHAN
The New York City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, proposed adding $576.5 million to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's budget.

Orlando Sentinel
Keller: No 'raid on student aid'
College students recently returned from a week of spring break, but some in Congress refused to take a vacation from the overheated -- and usually misleading -- rhetoric surrounding one of the most important pieces of legislation the U.S. House of Representatives passed all year.

Palm Beach Post
Teacher of year 'high-energy'
Christa McAuliffe Middle's Sheri Predmore honored for trying new things in classroom.

Pasadena Star News
Teacher arrested in union probe
Boyd is second person charged in theft case

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Slow readers have difficulty trying to catch up, study says
Helping older elementary school children who are struggling to read is even harder than some of the experts think.

Rocky Mountain News
DPS at fork in financial road
Denver Public Schools must dramatically alter its way of doing business - by closing or combining schools, by enrolling thousands more students - or it will face increasingly drastic measures such as cutting hundreds of teachers and abolishing basic services.

Rutland Herald 

Sacramento Bee
Folsom Cordova adopts steroid ban for athletes
FOLSOM - Folsom Cordova Unified School District trustees adopted a policy Thursday night prohibiting the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing supplements by student athletes.

Bridging the classroom, home front
In some families, a child's life at school is interwoven with life at home: Parents help with homework, volunteer in the classroom or e-mail teachers to check on grades. Teachers ask parents to chaperone field trips, organize fundraisers or donate paper, glue and Kleenex.

Summer camp readies kids for kindergarten
SACRAMENTO - Children who are entering kindergarten in the fall and have never attended preschool can enroll in a free summer camp through the Sacramento City Unified School District.

San Antonio Express-News
Ken Rodriguez: The Revelation: Not your ordinary high school paper
When covering a big story, I'm almost as likely to bump into someone from the Revelation as someone from local TV.

Bilingual teachers revamp instruction
Group will present its plan to the Texas Education Agency.
Bring it on. That's the message bilingual education teachers across Texas have for House Speaker Tom Craddick, who two months ago called for increased accountability for bilingual education programs.

San Diego Union Tribune 
Flag ban at schools in Oceanside Unified to be lifted Monday
Oceanside Unified's ban on students bringing flags to school will be lifted Monday, but not because of the storm of incensed callers across the region and nation.

USA Today 
College Board flunks math, gets 4,411 SAT scores wrong Marking foul-up highlights the strains on a fast-growing testing industry.
Jake DeLillo recalls a rainy Saturday last October when he took the all-important SAT college admissions test at Yorktown High School in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. As captain of the lacrosse team there, DeLillo, 17, had been recruited by several colleges. Then his SAT scores came in lower than expected, and his options appeared to shrivel. DeLillo picked a college only to discover later that his SAT had been scored incorrectly - 170 points shy of the accurate score.

Washington Post
Colleges Turning Away Even Top Students
By Jay Mathews and Susan Kinzie
A higher number of college-age students and multiple applications from students trying to hedge their bets contribute to the result.

International Articles

The Australian
Rich school welcomes ALP switch
THE headmaster of the school lambasted by the Labor Party for offering swimming pools, rifle ranges and a museum to wealthy students has welcomed Kim Beazley's backflip on schools funding.

Private school mum defends right to choose
EVERY year the King family struggles to raise the $50,000 for their children's private education and each year they tell their kids the same thing: "We would sell the house before we would change your school."

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Judge rapped over boy's race case
A teachers' union has criticised a judge who said prosecuting a boy over alleged racism was "crazy".

Linguists 'have different brains'
People with an aptitude for languages could have different shaped brains to others, scientists say.

Maths coursework review begins
The government's curriculum watchdog wants people's views on the role of coursework in GCSE maths.

The Globe and Mail
Notre Dame criticized over Vagina Monologues
South Bend, Ind. -- Conservative Catholics are criticizing a decision by the University of Notre Dame's president to allow The Vagina Monologues on campus.

The Guardian 
Curb influence of religions in schools, says NUT
Education: Teachers call for moves to end the controversial teaching of creationism.

The Gulf Times
750 participants to take part in democracy forum
THE Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade will be held on Tuesday with 560 international participants from 72 countries attending, Assistant to the Foreign Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed al-Rumaihi said.

Qafco gives schools 400 teaching kits
QATAR Fertiliser Company (Qafco) has donated 400 sets of integrated teaching aids to independent schools. The sets are intended to help English language learners.

The Independent (UK)
Teachers' union to demand scrapping of faith schools
Teachers' leaders are to demand the abolition of the country's 7,000 state-funded faith schools.

The Toronto Star
Students lay down the law
For the first time in Ontario, proposed legislation drafted by a student - this one requiring schools to educate students about healthy food choices - was introduced in the Legislature. Kerry Gillespie reports.