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Sunday, September 3, 2006

Baltimore Sun
More minority students take SAT
Asians had the largest increase in participation in county schools for '06

Williams urges blacks to rely on themselves
Gregory Kane
Hurricane Katrina is back.|Well, the talk about Hurricane Katrina is back. Americans observed the one-year anniversary of the disaster this week. Once again, there was talk about poor black folks in New Orleans. But mercifully, a new voice has been added to the discussion this year.

Boston Globe
New school fees imposed
NORTON-- School transportation and sports this year will cost parents money for the first time.

Making a case for a college education
How can I present to my son the urgency and importance of getting into college? He is a senior and doesn't want to do much about looking into four-year colleges. He has mentioned working, taking a couple of courses at a community college, and renting an apartment after graduation. This scenario never crossed my mind.

Charlotte Observer
Center offers answers for students and parents
Topics include attendance, behavior, transportation
The Iredell-Statesville Schools system has launched a new program to help improve communications with parents and students.

Contra Costa Times
Budget deal would fund class-size reductions
$2.9 million to be divvied up among state's lowest-performing schools
About 500 of California's lowest-performing schools would share $2.9 billion to reduce class sizes over the next seven years under an agreement approved last week in the Legislature.

Detroit News
Prominent clergy, former judge to aid in talks with striking Detroit teachers
DETROIT -- Contract negations continued Saturday as Detroit Public Schools officials enlist the aid of several high-profile community leaders in an attempt to ensure classes begin as scheduled on Tuesday.

Herald Tribune
Ringling students' digs are a circus
SARASOTA -- In his first week of classes at the Ringling School of Art and Design, freshman Justin Fennell woke up to a knock on the door of his room a little after 2 a.m. on a Tuesday.

Houston Chronicle
Q&A: Community colleges in funding 'tailspin'
How do you see the role of community colleges these days?
I really believe we're the best chance to save the middle class. We know that education is the key to social and economic problems, and we know that the jobs of the future will require some amount of postsecondary training. Where are they going to get that training?

Yates grad adjusts to life at A&M
Last semester, Jacob Tadesse nearly lost his grip on a dream. He failed an introductory course in mechanical engineering and dropped a required physics class. He snapped at an academic adviser

Indianapolis Star-Tribune
The old college try
Entrepreneurs at Indiana schools make the grade with clients, investors BLOOMINGTON, Ind.-- Indiana University junior Jared Schneider has the marketing for his new bakery down pat, even if the oatmeal-raisin cookies are a work in progress.

ISU sees enrollment problems leveling off
Number of students falls, but is less than university expected TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Indiana State University's slight drop in enrollment this year was less than expected, an encouraging sign for university officials who made enrollment growth on campus a top priority.

Kansas City-Star
More fail to hit test benchmarks
The percentage of Missouri schools meeting all-important state testing benchmarks dipped in the past year, according to preliminary data.

Los Angeles Daily News
Confirmed by test
THE latest Academic Performance Index numbers provide an interesting and important postscript to the debate over Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's partial takeover of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

New York Daily News
Standing by their principals
For years, city principals have been buried beneath an avalanche of one-size-fits-all rules imposed by bureaucrats who rarely set foot in classrooms.

Parents: Schools better but nabe still big factor
When Mayor Bloomberg took control of the nation's largest school system, he ushered in massive reforms - and escorted 9-year-old twin brothers to a first day of classes.

Back to school, on to the future ...
Editorials: With the start of the academic year on Tuesday, Chancellor Joel Klein will embark on one of the most significant reforms of his tenure - a program aimed at instilling accountability from the individual classroom to his own office.

New York Post
CITY'S SCHOOL-SAFETY MATH PROBLEM
By DAVID ANDREATTA Education Reporter In the eyes of the NYPD, which collects school safety data for the city, violent and disruptive behavior rattled Washington Irving HS in Manhattan once every couple of days during the school year ending in June 2005

New York Times
Palestinian Teachers Begin New School Year on Strike
By GREG MYRE
Palestinian schoolteachers went on strike in protest over wages for government employees who have gone largely unpaid for nearly six months.

A Teacher's Year, a C.E.O.'s Day: The Pay's Similar
By HUBERT B. HERRING
Enough already on how many millions chief executives earn. Let's shift gears to a group of workers who earn pennies in comparison.

How to Become a World Citizen, Before Going to College
By TANYA MOHN
Spending a year abroad before going to college can foster a solid sense of direction.

Perfect's New Profile, Warts and All
By TAMAR LEWIN
It seems to be the new writing section of the SAT that has made the number of perfects plummet.

'Surprise' Standards
B rooklyn's Lafayette HS was once so violence-plagued that one mother risked jail time rather than send her daughter there. Teachers reported having no control; racial conflict was rife, and the police were constantly called in.

Oregon Register-Guard
Back to school
Two Awbrey Park classmates dreamed of teaching. Now the friends are ...
In their fourth-grade year, Amy Nelson and Jamie Nicholsen were practically inseparable.
The girls, who had been at Awbrey Park Elementary School together since .

Palm Beach Post
FAU enrollment flat for 2006-07

Philadelphia Inquirer
Off to college, sort of
By Lini S. Kadaba, Inquirer Staff Writer
Nine days ago, Corey Evans left home for life as a college freshman. He packed a pickup truck with the dorm essentials he spent weeks accumulating - mini-fridge, extra-long twin sheets, jeans, plastic storage cart, milk crates, rug, bulletin board, textbooks - and set course for Neumann College in Aston.

Data on school safety lacking
By Dan Hardy, Inquirer Staff Writer
Is your child's school safe? Don't expect to find out from the latest safety data put out by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Education.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Student loans searched for terrorist information
WASHINGTON -- The Education Department acknowledged Thursday that, at the request of the FBI, it had scoured millions of federal student loan records for information about suspected terrorists in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Providence Journal
Edwatch by Julia Steiny: Would government have approved of Socrates, Merlin and Annie Sullivan?
The noble profession of teaching is gasping for air. Choked with red tape, teacher-proof curricula, bureaucratic demands for credentials, rules, regs and restrictions, teaching is lucky to have as many good practitioners as it has.

Richmond Times Dispatch
School extras add up
And you thought public schools are free? Nationally, school fees are a way that systems can deal with tight budgets and increasing expectations imposed by federal and state mandates.

Sacramento Bee
Arabic classes draw a crowd
Here is a snapshot of the students at the beginning Arabic class the other night at Sacramento City College: A 27-year-old archaeology major focusing ...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Schools prepare for new faces, new tests
Trimesters, veggie lunches, new levies launch year
As the school year starts, St. Paul Public Schools is busy celebrating 150 years in operation and trying to pass an excess levy in a referendum under the leadership of a new superintendent.

San Antonio Express-News
Student says being Latina is a plus
Cristina Sanchez, a 20-year-old student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is the first person in her family to attend college.

Exclusion at UT still stings lawmaker
El Paso Democrat Paul Moreno says discrimination was not evident when he arrived in the Texas House of Representatives 40 years ago as one of only eight Hispanic lawmakers.

English lessons take a back seat to work
In the comfort zone of José Barcena's tire store in the Houston suburb of Spring Branch, where owner, employees and many customers are Hispanic, he says people feel freer to speak a certain language: English.

StarTribune
Parents' hovering now may hurt their children later
With schools about to open, educators also get ready for "helicopter parents," who may battle teachers and administrators.

Tallahassee Democrat
Even Start gives young parents a hand
Krisha Peters' life didn't have much of a future a couple of years ago when she was living in California.

Washington Post
National School Testing Urged
Talk comes in fifth year of the No Child Left Behind era; law sought to hold public schools accountable for academic performance.

State Fuzzy on Math, Schools Chief Says
Tests Exceeded Level Of Instruction, He Says
Low scores of Loudoun County's sixth- and seventh-graders on new state tests may stem partly from unclear expectations, Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III said.

Wichita Eagle
More face drug tests for school
BY ICESS FERNANDEZ, The Wichita Eagle
Nearly every middle and high school student in the El Dorado school district will be tested for drug and alcohol use this year. Any student in seventh grade or higher who wants to participate in extracurricular activities must agree to undergo a mandatory drug test.

International Articles

The Daily Yomiuri
National universities scrambling to earn a crust
National universities, which became financially independent administrative corporations in 2004, are making desperate efforts to turn a profit.

The Globe and Mail
Help! I hate my roommate
REBECCA ECKLER 
You're an early riser and she sleeps till noon. She's a slob and you're a Virgo. As college life resumes, some dorm-dwellers are seeking therapy to fix their relationships

The Independent (UK)
Cooking classes put back on the school menu
Ministers' plan to encourage healthy eating and cut obesity

Half of independent schools are now shunning the GCSE
The headteacher of the school with the best GCSE results in the country warned yesterday that the exam was "in crisis".

The Windsor Star
Can't we just clone this teacher?
What you can learn from this educator who worked on the front lines for 30 years. By Christian Cotroneo.

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