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Friday, September 8, 2006
Baltimore Sun
City schools shun tests for grade promotion
The news that 19,000 elementary and middle school pupils in Baltimore were being held back created an uproar among parents in 2003. So the next year, the school system quietly stopped requiring third- through eighth-graders to earn a minimum score on a national standardized test to be promoted to the next grade.
Boston Globe
Dropout is now in, lesson learned
Sylvester Cooper , with his baggy sweat pants, gleaming white Nike sneakers, and rhinestone stud earring, blended in with the other freshmen in his Charlestown High algebra class yesterday on the first day of school.
3 white La. students removed over nooses
JENA, La. -- Three white high school students have been removed from school for allegedly putting a pair of hangman's nooses in a tree on campus, allegedly after black students suggested they wanted to sit beneath it, too.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
College remains out of reach
Ohio is making progress in preparing high school students for college, but rising tuition has earned the state a third straight F in affordability in a report released Wednesday.
Detroit Free Press
Strike eats into MEAP preparation
With more than 100 schools failing to meet academic goals, every day matters in Detroit Public Schools when it comes to making sure kids are ready to take the MEAP in October. But a teacher strike that began Aug. 28 has canceled classes for several days now, meaning students are losing precious instruction time.
Detroit News
Judge to rule on school strike today
District wants decision before vital head count.
eSchool News
Study aims to improve internet literacy
Researchers test new way to teach internet comprehension skills to students
Houston Chronicle
More Texas students taking, passing AP exams
The number of Texas high school students attempting Advanced Placement exams has increased more than 50 percent since 2002, and the number who scored high enough to earn college credit jumped more than 40 percent during that span, according to figures released Thursday by the Texas Education Agency.
Career and technology program is scrutinized
Review praises HISD policies, but says equipment outdated, teachers poorly trained
Too many students in HISD's career and technology program are using outdated equipment in classes taught by poorly trained teachers who don't prepare them for the work force, according to an independent review made public Thursday.
TSU relieves Slade of teaching, targets tenure
School, seeking to revoke tenure, says Slade could be a distraction in the classroom
Texas Southern University has relieved former President Priscilla Slade of her teaching duties and started the process to revoke her tenure, campus officials said Thursday.
Inside Higher ED
End of the Picket Line
Experts consider why a strike failed to get NYU to recognize a union - even as graduate students seek new strategies to win collective bargaining.
Thematic Developments
Colleges spend more time cooking up creative theme semesters. Are the efforts worth it?
The Secretary Offers a Preview
With formal unveiling of commission's report a few weeks away, Spellings weighs in on higher ed "report card."
Los Angeles Daily News
L.A. schools get windfall via lawsuit
Los Angeles Unified's schools in low-income areas will get at least $53 million - and as much as $82 million - to enhance their technology programs under an antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp., officials said Thursday.
Governor signs bill giving boost to preschool
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Thursday that will provide $50 million to expand preschool programs at California's lowest-performing campuses, many of them in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times
Gov. Signs Preschool Funding Bill
By Carla Rivera
The state says at least 12,000 and as many as 17,000 low-income children could benefit.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed legislation that provides $50 million to expand preschool opportunities for thousands of low-income children.
Let Schools 'Look Like America,' Too
Bush has a great personal record on diversity, yet balks at applying same race-conscious approach to schools. TO HIS CREDIT, PRESIDENT BUSH chose a Cabinet that (to quote former President Clinton) "looks like America." Now the same administration that takes race into account in assembling a government has asked the Supreme Court not to allow school districts to do the same thing in filling their classrooms.
New York Post
REPORT CARDS GET 'PERSONAL'
By DAVID ANDREATTA Beginning this fall, students across the state will receive tailor-made report cards that pinpoint their problem areas and offer parents advice, state education officials said yesterday.
New York Times
A Not-Quite-New Teacher Starts a New School YearBy DAVID STABA
In Batavia, N.Y., a male high school science teacher is returning as a woman and while school officials were worried about public outcry, students seem to think it's no big deal.
Philadelphia Daily News
For new school's excited students, their future awaits
By MENSAH M. DEAN
After the mayor and all the other important people had gone, students at the School of the Future were left to ponder their new school.
Philadelphia Inquirer
High-tech high
Phila.'s School of the Future opens with laptops, smart cards, and almost no books.
By Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia's $63 million "School of the Future" - built under the guidance of Microsoft Corp. and hailed as a first-of-its-kind model for technologically advanced schools worldwide - opened to its first 170 freshmen yesterday in West Philadelphia.
San Diego Union Tribune
How useful are annual college rankings?
Eva Ostrum has seen it several times: a father, eager to find the best college for his teenager, would arrive at a counseling appointment armed with spreadsheets filled with schools and their rankings.
San Jose Mercury News
Bill to allow student aid for illegal immigrants at final step
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WOULD GET LOANS
A controversial bill that would allow illegal immigrants to get state financial aid while attending California's public colleges and universities is now in the hands of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has until the end of this month to sign or veto.
Seattle Times
Apparent drop in WASL scores has schools upset
An anticipated drop in statewide test scores, particularly in seventh-grade reading, has prompted several school districts to raise questions...
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Ruling halts school district's Bible giveaways
A school district in southeastern Missouri must end a Bible giveaway program for fifth-graders for now, a federal judge in St. Louis ruled in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.
Tallahassee Democrat
FAMU working to hold on to students
Florida A&M University is pretty good at convincing high school students to become Rattlers.
Washington Post
Tiny Fraction Meet Benchmarks on Test
Only 28 of D.C.'s 146 public schools meet benchmarks on a new test, a situation that will require massive interventions to reverse.
On Facebook, Sharing May Go Too Far
Denizens of one of the Web's most popular hangouts are in an uproar over changes that they say make their musings much too public.
Wichita Eagle
Federal grant could help pay for officers in schools
BY ICESS FERNANDEZ, The Wichita Eagle
The Wichita school district will receive a federal grant that could help keep police officers in middle and high schools. The grant, secured by Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, would give the district $246,807 -- almost double what it is currently paying the city for the school resource officers.
International Articles
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Backdoor school selection curbed
A tougher admission code for England's schools, curbing "covert selection", is published for consultation.
The Daily Yomiuri
'Lazy' children may suffer from autonomic imbalance
A medical society has compiled guidelines on the treatment of orthostatic dysregulation, a type of autonomic imbalance peculiar to adolescents.
The Evening Times
On the run from racists
THREE Indian students are too frightened to attend their classes because of threats from teenage gangs.
The Guardian
Black teachers face bullying and racism, survey finds
Education: Calls for public inquiry after black teachers claim they face widespread discrimination and bullying.
The Independent (UK)
Pupils to learn their tables earlier
Children will be expected to have learnt their times tables by the age of eight as a result of a shake-up in the way maths and English are taught in primary schools.
The Jordan Times
Int'l science fair winners honoured
AMMAN (JT) - Local students who participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in May were honoured during a ceremony in Amman this week.
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