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Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Arizona Republic
Parents should stay involved in kids' education
Teenagers may turn red at the mere mention of Dad chaperoning a dance or Mom baking cookies for a class. But educators say parents should find ways to stay active beyond elementary school. That involvement is even more critical in today's high schools, where students must pass state tests to graduate.

How to get parents involved
Researchers at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas, say that high school parent involvement is more dependent on educators reaching out than in lower grades. Here are their suggestions for how to get parents involved:

Austin American-Statesman
New program to help middle schoolers
With help of $1.4 million grant, program helps build character, positive self-image.

Baltimore Sun
A different cue for the deaf
'Cued speech' has produced strong academic results - and a dispute
Advocates say cued speech holds enormous potential for tackling the deaf literacy crisis in a nation where almost 40,000 school-age children are in deaf education programs. But the technique is staunchly opposed by many in the mainstream deaf community, who find cued speech offensive.

Boston Globe
Where charters succeed
LOCAL CHARTER schools just got a good report card. Students in these independent schools tend to score higher on the MCAS than peers in district public schools, according to a study from the state's Department of Education.

Digital divide separates white, minority students
WASHINGTON -- Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone, a federal study has found.

National group favors formal review of UNH prof's teaching
WASHINGTON -- A national group has suggested that a formal review of a University of New Hampshire professor's teaching is necessary, including his views that government officials orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Chicago Tribune
School days return
A new school year begins today for 415,000 Chicago students

Columbus Dispatch
Student numbers soaring
Enrollment, racial diversity are far greater than 10 years ago Four schools are being built, but many of the students who will use them probably aren't even enrolled in the Olentangy district yet. But officials know children will come, just as they have by the hundreds each year for a decade.

Contra Costa Times
Free schools can cost you
Parents asked to shell out hundreds, even for core classes such as science and English; Justice Foundation sues districts.

Detroit Free Press
No deal yet for Detroit teachers
Negotiations continued late Monday night between the Detroit Public Schools and the Detroit Federation of Teachers. Bargaining on the eve of today's first day of school for 129,000 Detroit students, appeared stalled and an agreement was not reached, said Lekan Oguntoyinbo, a spokesman for the schools.

Detroit News
Strike shuts down Detroit schools
DETROIT -- With attendance limited by an eight-day teacher strike and no immediate help from the courts, Detroit Public Schools announced they will be closed to students today and remain shut until further notice.

Herald Tribune
Student government candidates push serious platforms at area schools

Houston Chronicle
Head of UT investment group steps down
AUSTIN - The president and chief executive of the investment group that handles money for both the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System has resigned to return to the private sector, UT officials announced Tuesday

Inside Higher ED
Momentum for Open Access Research  
Dozens of liberal arts presidents issue statement backing legislation to put federally sponsored research online, free.

U. of Phoenix Loses in U.S. Court  
Appeals panel clears way for lawsuit charging for-profit university with defrauding government of billions.

You May Have Been YouTubed  
Students start to post videos of professors - shot secretly - on popular site. Watch out for your dignity and intellectual property rights.

Los Angeles Daily News
College a world of change
NORTHRIDGE - Despite some grumbles about traffic jams, long lines and triple-digit heat, the word on local campuses Tuesday was "transformation" as colleges and universities opened around the San Fernando Valley.

Antonio's moment
POLITICALLY, the work is over for Los Angeles' would-be school reformer and mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. He has successfully made his case for a partial takeover of the LAUSD. He has brokered deals with all the necessary parties. And, he got Sacramento's blessing for his vision.

New York Daily News
Readin', writin' & a 9/11 rebirth
Nearly five years after the twin towers' destruction forced the evacuation of lower Manhattan, hundreds of kids born in the months around 9/11 marched yesterday into the neighborhood's schools for the very first time.

Empowered principals fired up
The 12th-graders had just finished noisily collecting their textbooks when Principal Felice Lepore settled them into rows of auditorium seats and laid down the ground rules.

N.Y.C. parents know the truth about charters
Paula Gavin: A federal study released last month claimed that charter school students nationwide don't perform as well as children in traditional public schools. It got its share of headlines.

New York Post
SCHOOLS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
By DAVID ANDREATTA More than a million students bid summer farewell yesterday and returned to class in an orderly opening for a school system being transformed behind the scenes.

New York Times
In New Orleans, It's a Cram Course in Public Service 101
By SUSAN SAULNY
Many college students in New Orleans feel they are contributing to the city's recovery by studying there amid the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

9/11 Leaves Its Mark on History Classes
By JANNY SCOTT
Five years after the attacks on New York and Washington, many historians say 9/11 and its aftermath are leaving their mark on how American history is written and taught.

Philadelphia Daily News
2-year pact for Catholic teachers came down to one word: Please
By VALERIE RUSS
IN THE END, it was the power of a personal phone call and a 40-year working relationship that led yesterday to a two-year contract for the area's Catholic high-school teachers.

Innovation aplenty at Parkside academy
From its classes to its cabinets, the School of the Future will be noticeably different from other city schools - at least that's the hope of Principal Shirley Grover and school district officials:

Ready or not, Future learning has arrived
By MENSAH M. DEAN
BEFORE GROUND was broken to build the Microsoft Corp.-aided School of the Future, Herb Brookens was certain of a couple of things.

Philadelphia Inquirer
PTA eyes Phila. council's turf
Home and School is growing, but the national group wants a bigger urban role. Paul Vallas is a "big fan."
By Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer
The Philadelphia Home and School Council - the school district's sole parents' group for decades - may get some competition for membership, and at a time when the council is trying to grow.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Catholic school enrollment trend continues
The Diocese of Pittsburgh has started the school year with fewer students in its elementary schools and more students in its high schools. Superintendent Robert Paserba and other officials yesterday conducted their annual back-to-school news conference. 

State schools need to do more to help students with asthma
HARRISBURG -- Schools in Pennsylvania are not meeting the needs of students with asthma, nor are they fully prepared to deal with student asthma attacks, a newly released study suggests.

Richmond Times Dispatch
Explicit images found on laptop
Henrico County's School Board is investigating how sexually explicit images appeared on the laptop computer of board member Jim Fiorelli.

Rocky Mountain News
DPS eyes reading among Hispanics
Fewer than half of Hispanic students in Denver Public Schools are on track to proficiency in reading, the basic building block of academic success, according to a new state method of projecting academic growth.

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Let the learning begin again
After outgrowing two facilities in 10 years, students at the blossoming French-immersion magnet school L'Etoile du Nord take in their spacious new digs in the halls of the former Parkway Elementary.

San Diego Union Tribune 
New charter school presents a challenge
ENCINITAS - Teacher Suzanne Waskey wants her 20 students to think of themselves as scholars. Of course, teaching kindergarteners what "scholar" means might be Waskey's first step.

San Jose Mercury News
Boom swamps UC campuses with freshmen
DEMOGRAPHICS, VALUE CREDITED FOR 10-YEAR TREND
Growing demand is forcing UC officials to think creatively about accommodating everyone. From auditoriums to dorm rooms to dining halls, campuses are squeezing an unexpectedly large number of students into existing space.

Seattle Times
Summertime orientations ease kids' first-day jitters at new schools
There was a big party in the Meadowdale Middle School gym recently, and school hadn't even started. Streamers bedecked some of the school's...

Tallahassee Democrat
Parents try home schooling
Cindy Knoblauch of Havana has been a sixth-grade home-school teacher in English and arts for more than 12 years. She advocates making sure that children who are home-schooled get a variety of experiences.

USA Today 
Kids run, shout, fight - and foil abductions
Study identifies how parents can keep their children safe: Give them the tools they need to recognize and avoid danger By Wendy Koch
Stephanie Quackenbush recalls walking to school on a sunny morning in Albany, N.Y., last year when, a block from school, a man grabbed her from behind.

Washington Post
A Season of Study In a Strange Land
When she lived in Baghdad, Nadin Habib traveled to school with her father or an uncle, who brought along weapons to defend her from insurgents. One day a bomb hit the house next door to hers, killing her neighbors. Her parents thought she'd been killed, too, until they found her buried under debris.

Former Education Chief Pleads Not Guilty
Andre J. Hornsby is charged with 16 felony counts in his first court appearance since his indictment on corruption and other charges.

Washington Times
Hornsby pleads not guilty to schools fraud  (Matthew Cella)
Former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby yesterday pleaded not guilty to federal charges of corruption and obstruction of justice stemming from his tenure in Prince George's County.

Wichita Eagle
Students consider costs of cruelty
BY ICESS FERNANDEZ, The Wichita Eagle
Before Rachel Scott was shot to death by her classmates, she knew she would change the world. Educators hope to invoke her name to change Wichita high schools. East High School students on Thursday were the first to take part in Rachel's Challenge, a program designed by Rachel's parents to change school environments.

WorldNet Daily
Intelligence services, police stunned by sweep
of schools, mosques in wake of foiled bomb plot
Britain discovers secret army of well-trained jihadi terrorists

International Articles

The Australian
French teachers plan strike as education goes back to basics
DISCIPLINE and the three Rs were the order of the day for French children as they began the school year with a new back-to-basics curriculum and marks for their conduct.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Services pupils 'need more help'
Ministers must do more to ensure children of armed services personnel move smoothly between schools, MPs say.

The Globe and Mail
My best marks were in Partying 101
MARY WOODARD 
When the mediocre is accepted as excellent, discouragement is the only appropriate response.

The Guardian 
Iranian president calls for purge of liberal lecturers
Education: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fires an ominous warning at the country's educated elites.

The Gulf Times
WCMC-Q welcomes new batch
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) welcomed its third medical class, Class of 2010, formally yesterday with the White Coat Ceremony that symbolises entry into medical profession.

The Independent (UK)
School leavers 'aren't prepared'
A National Party government would implement a nationwide standard on literacy and numeracy for high...

The New Zealand Herald
School leavers 'aren't prepared'
A National Party government would implement a nationwide standard on literacy and numeracy for high...

The Peninsula
Ban of camera phones in schools lauded

Qatar students show off their inventions at 'Explore QSTP'

Qtel forms alliance with Korean universities

The Toronto Star
Brand-new year, brand-new teacher
Jen McColl was nervous and not about to hide it. But, armed with props, the rookie teacher faced the Grade 7 class on her first day ever teaching. By education reporter Daniel Girard.

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