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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Arizona Republic
3-way school debate covers AIMS, vouchers, tax credit
Tom Horne defended his job performance as state superintendent of public instruction in a debate Saturday with two Democrats seeking to unseat him in November.
Boston Globe
This old schoolhouse goes higher ed
The parking lot in front of the former Joseph P. Kennedy School was crowded with vans belonging to electricians, carpenters, and other tradespeople. Inside the building, which is set against a hill across from Stony Brook Reservation, electric tools hummed and ladders crowded hallways.
Chicago Tribune
School turnout high on 1st day
CHICAGO -- Nearly 385,000 Chicago students showed up for the first day of classes, a turnout Mayor Richard Daley attributed to attendance incentives and other school innovations.
Dallas Morning News
Will Richardson superintendent hunt lead to another outsider?
Richardson ISD: Trustees weigh merits of hiring nontraditional chief
The Richardson school district's last superintendent broke the mold. Jim Nelson wasn't a teacher or principal. He didn't have a degree in education.
Detroit Free Press
Union holding its ground
They marched through the drizzly rain Saturday afternoon, carrying signs with sentiments like "Hands off my benefits" and "Protect our classrooms.
Detroit News
Detroit students to learn by 7 p.m. whether to report to class Monday
Detroit Public Schools officials said Saturday they will announce by 7 p.m. today whether students should report to class on Monday.
Los Angeles Daily News
LAUSD vs. Microsoft
THERE'S a divine irony to be savored over the fact that Los Angeles Unified School District - an education monopoly if there ever was one - is a major beneficiary in an antitrust settlement with Microsoft.
Point of no return
THE Los Angeles Unified board of education members who voted to initiate a legal challenge to the mayor's education reform bill last week insist that they only want to vet the bill's constitutionality. They insist they don't mean to obstruct education reform
Los Angeles Times
Students, Alumnae Boo Opening School to Men
Amid boos and shouts of "traitors," Randolph-Macon Woman's College officials announced that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old Lynchburg institution starting in 2007.
New York Post
SMART PASS NABS SUB-PAR TEACHERS
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE A sophisticated swipe-card system to track the city's army of substitute teachers - and keep criminals away from classrooms - will soon be installed at every public school around the city.
New York Times
At $9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry?
By CHARLES McGRATH
How good are the results of made-to-order term paper services on the Internet?
Palm Beach Post
Teaching about 9/11 an experience
Emotions get in the way when trying to relay the tragedy to students.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Microsoft-designed 'School of Future' opens in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools "obsolete" and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education.
Providence Journal
EdWatch by Julie Steiny: Ripples expand from a pond at Cumberland High School
On a sunny day, two identically shaped ponds gleam invitingly in the central courtyard of Cumberland High School. Each water garden has a small, raised basin from which water burbles and splashes while coursing along a 15-foot stream bed of rocks into a large pool at ground level.
Alfie Kohn's Homework gets failing grade
To paraphrase a comment about Thomas Babington Macaulay, the famously self-confident 19th-century British historian, I wish I were as sure about anything as Alfie Kohn is about everything.
San Diego Union Tribune
Virginia women's college draws outrage as trustees vote to admit men beginning in 2007
Amid boos and shouts of "traitors!" Randolph-Macon Woman's College officials announced Saturday that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old institution starting in 2007.
Washington Post
College to Admit Men
The board of trustees of Randolph-Macon Woman's College voted Saturday to admit men, even as students and alumnae chanted "Keep R-MWC a WC" outside.
Schools Address Lower Scores
Officials in Charles County say the new SAT scores are from a revamped test so different from the old exam that scores on the two cannot be fairly compared.
An Underdog Has His Day: Winning Isn't Everything, Except Maybe in High School
Toughest Test May Be First Day
Thousands of 13- , 14- , and 15-year-olds in Virginia have embarked upon -- depending on their perspectives -- the first year of a four-year educational journey/social romp/prison sentence.
Washington Times
New college program brings Saudis to U.S.
By Garance Burke
Thousands of students from Saudi Arabia are enrolling on college campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah.
Wilmington News Journal
Teachers take different tacks in adding event to lesson plans
Many craft how they cover event to own interests, students' ages
International Articles
The Globe and Mail
Scents and sensibility
SHERRY NOIK-BENT
The Toronto District School Board may be considering going fragrance-free, but one high school has already banned big smells
The Guardian
University catches student cheats who trawl the internet
Education: A British university has launched a crackdown on what officials admit is one of the biggest problems they face.
The Jordan Times
US educators review Jordan's nursing programmes
AMMAN (JT) - The dean of nursing at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is leading a quality review of Jordan's 22 associate and six baccalaureate nursing programmes.
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