EDUCATION 

 

Arizona Republic

 

Graduation rates rise at job-training center

 

 BBC (United Kingdom)

 

Pakistan's education battleground (Pakistan's education system has suffered decades of neglect and, with a third of under-nines not going to school, the vacuum is being filled by madrassas or religious schools, as Orla Guerin discovered.)

School place 'fraud' case dropped  (A London council withdraws its action against a mother it accused of lying to gain a school place. )

Colleges' agency spend attacked  (Unions representing college employees say millions of pounds is being wasted on agency staff and consultants.)

Drop in modern language learning  (Education inspectors are calling for schools to do more to encourage pupils to learn modern foreign languages.)

 

Boston Globe

 

Small colleges' survival lessons

 

Buffalo News

 

Blitzer video to Ken West grads a lesson in perseverance

 

Canoe(Canada)

 

Stabbing after school graduation

 

Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)

 

JCPS student assignment plan challenged (The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville by Teddy Gordon, contends that the new plan still relies too heavily on race to be constitutional. Jefferson County School Superintendent Sheldon Berman said he hadn't seen the suit and couldn't comment on it.)

 

Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

 

Woman teaching assistant 'lured girls to pool parties so husband could secretly film them naked'

 

Denver Post

 

Broadcasts on school buses run into static (BusRadio, used in some metro districts, is under fire for its ads and choice of music. Congress has ordered a Federal Communications Commission review of BusRadio, a controversial radio-programming system that targets kids riding on school buses — including some in the metro Denver area — with advertising and what some say is inappropriate music. )

 

Detroit News

 

Mayor Bing says Detroit should be outraged over school shooting

Relaxed fed rules improve grad rates (Nearly five dozen school districts throughout Michigan could be spared federal penalties this year because the US Department of Education recently agreed to let the state count students who took five years to graduate high school. )

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FoxNews.com

 

Oops: Teacher Puts Sex Clip of Self on Students DVD

 

Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom)

 

Young Brits at Art: the winners  (Three young artists won the judges over with their portrayals of life in Britain )

More graduates set to join unemployed  (Job prospects for 22,000 the same as, if not worse, than in the darkest years of the 1990s recession )

 

Gulf Times (Qatar)

 

Class of 2009 graduates

693 QU female students graduate

 

Indianapolis Star

 

State board to colleges: Hold down tuition rate (State education officials want colleges and universities to keep classes affordable for Hoosier families burdened with job losses and economic...)

IPS is sued in rape of student at school (A new lawsuit accuses Indianapolis Public Schools of negligence in an alleged rape of one student by another last year in a high school auditorium. )

 

Kansas City Star

 

Kansas schools lose an additional $39 million in state funds

Missouri state school board picks first woman education commissioner

 

Lexington Herald-Leader

Louisville's new schools plan challenged in lawsuit  (The father of a kindergarten student is challenging how Louisville assigns students to schools, two years after the US Supreme Court rejected a method that it said relied too heavily on race in determining which students could attend what schools. )

Los Angeles Times 

 

 Education secretary treads where teachers unions don't want to go (Arne Duncan, in a speech at the NEA's annual meeting in San Diego, says teacher merit pay and student test scores should be on the table when discussing education reform.)

 

Miami Herald

 

Community colleges running out of room (Demand is soaring at Miami-Dade and Broward community colleges, but the cash-strapped schools can't add enough classes. )

Lease dispute closes learning centers (Two programs for farm workers' children were closed due to a spat between the Homestead Housing Authority and the Miami-Dade School Board. )

 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

School requests pour in for stimulus building aid  (A new program that allows school districts to borrow money interest-free has attracted requests for nearly six times the amount allocated to Wisconsin.)

 

New York Daily News

 

Gonzalez: Harlem Success Academy expands further into P.S. 123 in Harlem (Harlem has become Ground Zero in a growing neighborhood resistance to mayoral control of schools....)

Return of Board of Education means parents have less say on schools (Parents who've complained for years about having little input under mayoral control of schools, have even less power under the resurrected Board of Education...)

Board of Education votes to keep Joel Klein (A hastily revived Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to retain Schools Chancellor Joel Klein....)

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

Pitt chancellor argues for stimulus aid to avoid tuition hike (University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg hinted in a letter to the federal government that in-state students could face higher tuition if Pitt and three other state-related universities lose $42 million in federal stimulus aid. )

Vocational schools see record numbers enroll (Vocational schools nationwide are reporting record enrollment as workers stung by the recession are seeking educations that are quick, affordable and -- perhaps most important -- in demand.)

 

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

 

Rochester school board schedules session on toxin at school site

 

Sacramento Bee

 

Private colleges tackle bad economy by trimming tuition

Tutor cash helps make ends meet

 

San Diego Union Tribune 

 

Education chief wants merit pay considered (US Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged thousands of teachers to consider linking their salaries to student achievement during his speech yesterday at the National Education Association's annual meeting in downtown San Diego.)

 

Scotsman (Scotland)

 

 Summer break alert on forced marriages

 

The Age (Australia)

 

Child care to get young school-ready (All child-care centres will be required to begin baby learning and child development programs as soon as possible as part of a Federal Government push to make sure children are ready to learn when they start school.)

'Welcome' move on students (Darebin City Council will receive $50,000 from the Federal Government to make international students from India and other countries feel more engaged and welcome.)

 

The Telegraph (United Kingdom)

 

Scientists: You can really smell fear  (The smell of fear really does exist claim scientists in a study that also suggests that it is contagious.)

School place 'fraud' case dropped

Tories to 'raise the bar' for teachers  (Teachers will face stiffer tests before being allowed into the classroom under a Conservative government. )

 

The Wall Street Journal

 

Even Teachers Feel Pinch of Downturn

 

Times Online (United Kingdom)

 

It's the Government who won't learn (The new schools White Paper obfuscates the need to impart basic knowledge by jargon and guff)

 

USA TODAY

 

Education secretary challenges NEA on teacher pay

$2.7B in stimulus money released for schools

 

Washington Post

 

Shortchanging High Achievers (Summer programs for gifted students are on the chopping block.)

Naval Academy Professor Challenges School's Push for Diversity

 

Washington Times

 

Academic medical centers (For more than a century, when government identified a problem in health care, it counted on academic medical centers to ...)

 

 

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