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Friday, September 1, 2006

Atlanta Journal Constitution
Morehouse loses top spot in ranking
Black Enterprise's college list cites low grad rates

Boston Globe
Romney applauds student measurement in No Child Left Behind
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Massachusetts has not been impacted by the federal No Child Left Behind law because it was testing public school students before it was enacted, Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday, but he supports it because such measurement is necessary to improve schools.

College aid screened in terror probe
By Ben Feller
WASHINGTON -- Searching for terrorists, the FBI and the Education Department's investigative arm have secretly vetted people applying for college aid, documents show.

Charlotte Observer
Honors for a tough, no-quit teacher
Alonda Singletary draws national recognition for dedication, perseverance
On Wednesday, the way the principal and faculty at Piedmont middle described Alonda Singletary was impressive.

Chicago Sun-Times
Education powers up
As the new school year dawns, the hopes and dreams of some Chicago Public Schools parents are invested in 12 "charter" schools making their debut.

Vegas schools take gift raised by strip club's 'schoolgirls'
LAS VEGAS -- The Clark County School District kicked off the first day of school Wednesday with scant resources. But it got a major donation from the scantily clad.

Dallas Morning News
A&M chancellor to step down
Less than two years into the job, Robert McTeer announced Thursday that he's retiring and stepping down as chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

Detroit Free Press
Teachers halt pickets for Labor Day holiday
After four days of court-ordered negotiations, picket signs are stowed, but Detroit Public Schools and its teachers union appear no closer to a deal that would put teachers back in classrooms in time for Tuesday's scheduled school start.

Detroit News
Strike puts parents in limbo
Their worry: Will schools be ready for kids

eSchool News
Gulf Coast students share stories via video
'Digital Arts Summer Camps' give students affected by Hurricane Katrina a meaningful purpose--and an outlet for expressing their emotions

Houston Chronicle
HISD SAT scores rise, but lag behind state, U.S.
The district's average climbs 10 points, but still trails the state's, nation's

Indianapolis Star-Tribune
IPS OKs budget with tax increases
Money is needed to pay debt from building projects The Indianapolis Public School Board approved a budget Thursday that will raise taxes as the district begins to pay off its debt from recent renovation and rebuilding projects.

Inside Higher ED
If CIA Calls, Should Anthropology Answer?
Scholarly association starts process to consider ethical rules associated with working with national security agencies.

Changing the Report, After the Vote  
U.S. higher ed panel alters language about open source software after commissioner from Microsoft balks.

FBI Scrutiny of Aid Applications
Federal authorities used forms submitted by students to look for terrorists, apparently not finding any.

Los Angeles Daily News
LAUSD scores don't add up
The LAUSD failed to meet federal standards for math and English proficiency for the second straight year despite slight increases in student achievement scores, a California Department of Education report released Thursday said.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Tuition breaks for state students unadvertised
Wisconsin students don't know it, but they have become eligible for thousands of dollars in tuition breaks at dozens of Midwestern colleges as part of a reciprocity agreement between UW and other schools.

New York Daily News
Principals rocked by Klein won 'satisfactory' rankings: Union
All of the 44 assistant principals singled out by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein in a blistering letter to city principals received "satisfactory" ratings from their previous bosses, union officials charged yesterday.

Get a job or get out
Editorials: Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has decided to spend $5 million to create make-work jobs for 44 assistant principals whose talents, if that's the right word, are unwanted in any of the city's 1,400 schools. This is a huge waste of money - but it is absolutely and shamefully necessary.

New York Post
PERV TEACH SHOCK
HS IGNORED RAP: SUIT
By DAREH GREGORIAN The city allowed a pervert to teach and be alone with students at a Hell's Kitchen high school - even after an investigator found he had engaged in "sexual misconduct" and should be fired, court papers charge.

Klein Blows The Whistle
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein just blew the whistle in a most graphic way on one of the most obvious, onerous and costly conflicts of interest in the city.

NO TAKERS FOR 44 ASST. PRINCIPALS
By DAVID ANDREATTA Education Reporter After urging the city's 1,450 public-school principals to contact him if they want any of the 44 assistant principals he's trying to unload before the start of school, Chancellor Joel Klein did not receive a single call or e-mail.

'KID RAPE' SCHOOL SLAP
Post Wire Services Two teachers at a Westchester elementary school have been suspended and their principal placed on paid leave while authorities try to determine if they failed to report a case of child abuse.

New York Times
Education Dept. Shared Student Data With F.B.I.
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
Under the program the Education Department received names from the F.B.I. and checked them against its student aid database, forwarding information.

Where Katrina Lingers, Football Is a Refuge
PORT SULPHUR, La., Aug. 31 - Last year, nothing floated through the goal posts of the ruined high school here but the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina. Now football is again being played in lower Plaquemines Parish, a rudder-like peninsula below New Orleans that steers the Mississippi River to its delta. There is a new school, South Plaquemines High, and a chance for a new start Friday night against Belle Chasse, in upper Plaquemines.

Many in City Summer School Won't Go on to Next Grade
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
The mixed results for the 13,751 third, fifth and seventh graders raised questions about the cost-effectiveness of the summer program created to help them.

Where's Mao? Chinese Revise History Books
By JOSEPH KAHN
China is abandoning the Marxist template that has dominated the nation's history textbooks since the 1950's.

Pasadena Star News
Schools showing progress
Principals, teachers and real estate agents on Thursday welcomed new data from the Department of Education showing public schools in the western San Gabriel Valley are doing well and getting better.

Philadelphia Daily News

Philadelphia Inquirer
Charters boost city schools' showing
A report found that more Phila. schools met progress targets under No Child Left Behind.
By Susan Snyder, Alletta Emeno and Dylan Purcell, Inquirer Staff Writers
Mirroring statewide results, more public schools in Philadelphia met progress targets this year under the federal No Child Left Behind law - thanks to a strong performance by the city's charter schools.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Back to school / Snacks, soft drinks banished as schools focus on nutrition
Students returning to the Pittsburgh Public Schools yesterday were hit with a quick lesson in subtraction: 

Schools on track to meet federal education standards
More than 82 percent of Pennsylvania's schools -- and 95 percent of districts -- made or are making progress toward meeting the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Contract reached for Wilkinsburg schools
Teachers in the Wilkinsburg School District have reached a contract agreement that includes a 4 percent salary increase this year and every year until it expires in August 2011.

Providence Journal
Education chief spotlights early literacy
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings brings nearly $7 million to Ready to Learn Providence, which she calls a model for the nation.

Richmond Times Dispatch
Middle College program thrives
Danielle Lawrence is in Middle College, a program for adults who did not finish high school. Students are helped to find jobs and earn a GED.

Rocky Mountain News
CU: Dentist can't pull off gift
A Florida dentist who pledged $92.7 million to train orthodontists at the University of Colorado can't come up with the money, CU officials said Thursday.

Sacramento Bee
State, federal targets addle schools
Principal Shana Henry gushed with excitement over the gains her students at Edward Kemble Elementary School made last year. "Isn't it wonderful?" she said ...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
U dorms going virtually dry
New policy prohibits alcohol in all but one residence hall
Drinking in the dorms will be a tougher task this year at the University of Minnesota - even if you're legal. A new Twin Cities campus policy this fall makes all but one of the traditional dormitories dry. Students at least 21 years old used to be able to bring alcohol into the buildings. The new policy, which took effect this week at the start of the new school year, forbids anyone from taking alcohol into the traditional residences, except for Centennial Hall.

San Diego Union Tribune 
Rankings show progress
Sixty-eight percent of San Diego County schools met their annual federal academic benchmarks, while only 47 percent met their statewide targets, according to an annual report card released yesterday by the California Department of Education. By comparison, 65 percent of schools statewide met their federal goals, and 52 percent hit their state marks.

One more obstacle for Katrina evacuee
A year ago, Elton Fletcher was in hell. Then strangers gave him his big chance in the Golden State, 2,000 miles from his hurricane-ravaged hometown of New Orleans. Candice Lopez, a graphic arts professor, and her class at San Diego City College were so moved by the horrific images of suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, they decided to "adopt" an evacuee.

San Francisco Chronicle
State schools improve in math, English
But No Child Left Behind tests find many still below grade level
Nanette Asimov
As part of the federal government's sweeping academic experiment known as No Child Left Behind, every California school this year is supposed to have about a quarter of its students performing at grade level in math and English.

San Jose Mercury News
Painful plunge tied to walkout
When California released its Academic Performance Index scores Thursday, the data contained a bizarre red flag. After years of steady gains, Downtown College Prep, the ambitious charter high school in San Jose, saw its API score tumble from 731 to 528 -- a flabbergasting, 203-point drop that was the second-largest in the state.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
248 schools in state fail U.S. goals
A record number of Washington public schools have landed on a federal "needs improvement" list, including 28 schools in Seattle, the state superintendent's office announced Thursday.

Seattle Times
Schools that need to improve: The list gets longer
The number of Washington schools judged as "needs improvement" under the federal No Child Left Behind law grew to 248 this year, even though...

St. Petersburg Times
Who's No. 1?
No, not the football teams. We study the hometowns of our five major universities and grade the student scene. Find out about each city's bars, restaurants, hangouts and college town vibe.

Tallahassee Democrat
Audit: No basis for investigation
In an independent audit, no basis was found for an investigation by Florida A&M University interim inspector general Michael Brown into whether senior officials - including Interim President Castell Bryant - provided false financial information at a June...

Student snapshots
It's the first week of classes for more than 8,000 college freshmen in Tallahassee. They're out meeting new people, finding their way around Tallahassee and getting accustomed to life without Mom or Dad.

Washington Post
Nicotine Up Sharply in Cigarettes
By David Brown
Amount of addictive chemical rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands most popular with young people and minorities registering the biggest increases.

Pair Crack AP Test Barrier
For the first time in four years, student at Potomac High School in Prince George's County has passed an Advanced Placement test.

Washington Times
The classics get Islam twist
By Malcolm Moore
Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories in the Turkish school curriculum.

International Articles

The Australian
Famed archeologist digs in on history in schools
THE debate about history's place in the school curriculum is a global one, says famed Italian historian and archeologist Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
School uniform 'a money struggle'
Many families struggle to afford school uniforms - putting children at risk of being bullied, charities warn.

Many students 'have to get jobs'
More students are having to work during term-time to pay spiralling costs, the TUC warns.

Glitch hits university admissions
Thousands of university applications are thought to have been delayed by computer problems.

The Globe and Mail
Primary pupils' test results improving
CAROLINE ALPHONSO 
More Ontario elementary-school students than ever are passing the province's reading, writing and math test, according to results released yesterday, but the numbers still fall short of the 75-per-cent target set by the government.

Ontario tailoring training to students' interests
More than half of managers and nearly two-thirds of labour leaders surveyed now rank it as a "serious problem" for the economy, according to Workplace Partners Panel, an Ottawa-based bipartite initiative that studies workplace issues. Ten years ago, less than one- third of managers and one in five labour leaders considered the skills shortage a serious problem.

The Guardian 
More students working to fund studies
Education: Students are increasingly forced to find part-time work during their holidays - union report.

The Korea Times
Seoul hiring more English teachers
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced today it will assign native English-speaking teachers to all elementary and junior ...

The Press New Zealand
Varsity labs 'out of date' $56.5m needed for new facility
Canterbury University needs to spend $56.5 million on a new biological-sciences facility or face pulling out of research and post-graduate study due to "significant non-compliance issues" with health and safety legislation, a report has shown.

The Sunday Telegraph
Turning parents into suspects
Andrew Gimson
The snooper, the sneak, the informer: these characters have never been admired in British life. It is therefore with a sense of incredulous fury that one watches the Government erecting a system of institutionalised snooping on every parent in the land, so that the authorities can tell whether we are abusing our children.

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