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Saturday, September 9, 2006

Arizona Republic
Grant to focus on theater as teaching tool
Childsplay, a theater for young audiences, has been awarded a $141,088 federal grant and will partner with Phoenix' Washington Elementary School District, the state's largest elementary district, to use those funds.

Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta wary on school sales tax

Boston Globe
History of achievement
Trail and guide celebrate the contributions of African Americans, the famous and the ordinary, to the Berkshires

Detroit teachers ordered back to work
DETROIT -- A judge on Friday ordered Detroit Public Schools teachers back to work after the district and the teachers union could not reach a tentative labor agreement despite nearly continuous negotiations.

Charlotte Observer
Private schools on rise
Analysis shows trend among better-off families in Mecklenburg
More of Mecklenburg County's better-off families are putting their kids in private schools, according to an Observer analysis of new census data.

Columbus Dispatch
New elite class
Higher standards have OSU rivaling Miami, making it tough to get in The newest undergraduates at Ohio State University are just as brainy as their counterparts at Ohio's so-called public Ivy, Miami University.

Contra Costa Times
Special-education director to retire in 2007
SAN RAMON VALLEY: Biondi leaves amid complaints from parents about a lack of appropriate schoolwork
The San Ramon Valley school district's special-education director, who took the job four years ago amid mounting complaints about the district's special-education services, has announced her retirement.

Dallas Morning News
DISD inquiry nets first arrest
Secretary faces charges over credit card use; more indictments likely
Federal agents arrested a Dallas school district secretary Friday morning on theft charges related to purchases she made with her DISD credit card over the last three years.

Detroit Free Press
Judge: Back to class
A judge ordered Friday that 7,000 striking Detroit teachers return to the classroom without a new contract, agreeing with administrators that the state's largest school district will be crippled and its students' educations irreparably harmed if the 12-day work stoppage was allowed to continue.

Parents support return to class
Relief and solidarity were two competing emotions Detroit parents expressed as they prepared to send their children back to school on Monday -- a week after the first scheduled day of classes.

BRIAN DICKERSON: Sadly, a teacher's kid flunks both sides
Well, somebody had to be the grown-up. God knows Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman wasn't relishing the role. For 11 days she stalled for time -- pleading, cajoling, pressuring and even threatening, but always resisting the Bigfoot role in which Detroit Public Schools lawyers were so eager to cast her.

Herald Tribune
Honors students punished for plagiarism
Several students in the sophomore honors-level English program at Lakewood Ranch High School received "zero" grades on a summer assignment.

Los Angeles Daily News
Report: Law takes kids from parents
A nearly 10-year-old federal law that provides financial rewards to states and counties that increase the number of children adopted out of foster care is tearing families apart, a report released Friday said.

New York Post
CUNY ROLLS ON
By DAVID ANDREATTA Student enrollment at the City University of New York rose this semester for the seventh straight year - and reached its highest level since 1975, the university announced yesterday.

KLEIN'S NEW LINE ON CLASS SIZE
By DAVID ANDREATTA Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday he has the authority to lower class sizes - despite claims of city lawyers this week that Mayor Bloomberg cannot force the school system to reduce them.

New York Times
Washington School Still Feels Pain of 9/11
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
Madeleine V. Leckie Elementary School lost a student, a teacher and two parents in the terrorist attacks.

Ex-Gonzaga Head Is Tied to Abuse Scandal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A former Gonzaga University president was involved in sexual abuse in the 1960's, but officials covered up his actions, the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus said.

An Age of Tainted Admissions and Too Much Homework
By JANET MASLIN
This fall education is a particularly hot topic in publishing. New books raise a wealth of ticklish questions.

A Not-Quite-New Teacher Starts a New School Year
By 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.

Pasadena Star News
PUSD's board on brink of shake-up
PASADENA - The president and vice president of the board of education might step down Tuesday night if their peers vote to replace embattled Superintendent Percy Clark with an interim administrator.

Sacramento Bee
All eyes on amazing teenagerCBS News featured him on Katie Couric's second day in the anchor chair. Geraldo's people called. The folks from "The Montel Williams Show" pursued him. Ellen DeGeneres invited him to Los Angeles, and People magazine sent him to San Diego....

San Francisco Chronicle
Celebrating decades of hands-on environmentalism - Common Ground marks 34th year of organic living
Whether it's gardening classes, tools or supplies, Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center in Palo Alto has filled the bill for gardeners and mini-farmers for 34 years.

San Jose Mercury News
Shultz speech sets off plagiarism debate
STANFORD STUDENTS COMPLAIN OF DOUBLE STANDARD
When Stanford University economics professor and Hoover Institution fellow George P. Shultz delivered his prestigious Kissinger Lecture at the Library of Congress, he used entire paragraphs that had been previously published in a Yale University journal.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
WASL still not making the grade
Members of the high school Class of 2008 made significant progress on annual statewide tests taken last spring, but not enough to quell growing concerns that thousands may not earn their diplomas.

Seattle Times
WASL results show strong gains, puzzling declines across the state
Scores on this year's Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) hit some rough patches, with dips in math in the fourth and seventh..

StarTribune
U tuition likely to go up again, slightly
University of Minnesota officials will propose what might be the smallest tuition increase in at least a decade -- about 4 percent -- when they hammer out their budget this fall.

Tallahassee Democrat
FSU hires academic superstars
The hiring of academic superstars to hoist Florida State University to the upper reaches of research and graduate universities has begun.

Students: Drop hazing charges
Attorneys for four of five undergraduate Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity members Friday filed motions asking the judge to dismiss all charges of hazing.

Washington Post
Highly Touted Schools Land on Failure List
The D.C. system's list of 118 schools that fail to pass a new test includes 12 that have a reputation for being high-performing.

Facebook Modifies Controversial Feature
Facebook revamped its site last night to let users disable or modify a new feature that had touched off protests from members.

Washington Times
14-year-old gets an early taste of college  (Kristen Wyatt)
SALISBURY, Md. -- Josh Bentley looks every bit the college student -- floppy blond hair sticking out from under a baseball cap, gray T-shirt and jeans with a cell phone clipped in the pocket.

International Articles

The Aljazeera
US colleges to enrol more Saudis
Thousands of students from Saudi Arabia are enroling on college campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational exchange programme

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Will education be key under Brown?
BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on the changes happening in the new school year.

Pupils 'need first aid training'
All schoolchildren should be taught basic first aid techniques, the British Red Cross says.

Degree discount for up-front cash
A university offers discounts to students who pay the full £9,000 for their degree course in advance.

The Globe and Mail
School board settles human-rights complaint
Surrey, B.C. -- The Surrey School Board has settled with two lesbian mothers who complained about anti-gay rhetoric from speakers at two public meetings.

The Guardian 
Guidelines ban covert pupil selection
Education: Interviews proscribed under draft plan
· Education officials applaud new approach

The Gulf Times
Bangladesh school pupils fare well in HSC examinations NINETEEN of the 23 students of Bangladesh MHM School and College in Doha who took the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations have been successful, a school official said.

Education City varsities enrol 198 students
A TOTAL of 198 new students have been admitted to the branch campuses of the five internationally renowned American universities at Qatar Foundation's Education City, officials told Gulf Times yesterday.

The Independent (UK)
Bilingual school is a lesson in the entente cordiale
"Au revoir, à lundi," one four-year-old tells her new friend in the playground, as the opening week at Britain's first bilingual state school draws to an end.

New language qualifications help put 10,000 students on 'ladder of learning'
Ten thousand students - including children as young as eight - have taken innovative new courses which aim to reverse the decline in language learning.

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