EDUCATION

Arizona Republic

Partnership eases path to ASU transfer (Maricopa Community Colleges students will soon be able to transfer to Arizona State University much more easily, thanks to a partnership between the two schools that defines course and degree paths)

Programs designed to ease freshmen's jump to high school (Ishbel Gonzalez is among 375 incoming freshmen in a transition program at Agua Fria Union High School, Summer Success, to ease the intimidation of high school. )

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Too much alcohol at Georgia-Florida? (UF president wants to cut locations selling alcohol, stop shots at Jacksonville Landing. )

Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)

NYC Muslims push to add holidays to school year

How 4 school chiefs fared at last bell (A look at the varied challenges CMS educators face, and how their strategies are playing out.)

Chicago Sun Times

Colleges adding fees for paying by credit card (Credit cards are universally accepted at businesses around the world -- at no additional cost to consumers.)

New CPS teachers need more mentoring, support (It's not really news that we are in a teacher-quality crisis. The issue in the Chicago Public Schools is not attracting teachers, but keeping them in the system, as the new Consortium on Chicago School Research study indicates. )

Dad fights son's school suspension over T-shirt (When Donaciano Reyes moved from Cicero to Oswego five years ago, he was trying to get his family away from a gang-plagued environment.)

Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)

Area schools say funding is not enough

College offering Army 101 course

Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

Balls bans children's 'gay' jibes as government cracks down on sexual bullying (Schools Secretary Ed Balls has again tried to stop insults based on sexuality but a Tory MP has condemned Mr Balls for producing 'more politically-correct nonsense.')

How computers can harm your children's future... by damaging their brains (We could be creating a generation blighted by obesity and gambling, warns Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution. )

Dallas Morning News

Schools get credit for kids predicted to pass future TAKS test (So many campuses are likely to benefit from the new state rule, called the Texas Projection Measure, that it raises the question: At what point do accountability ratings become meaningless? )
Charter school company with plans for McKinney is criticized (A national charter school company that plans to open new schools in Texas, including one in McKinney, has run afoul of an education official in Nevada and two of its former principals, and they all pose the same question.)

Denver Post

Mayor Hickenlooper wants database to help track kids' trends (Privacy would be a concern in identifying warning signs for mentors, teachers and others. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper wants to compile an enormous database to give teachers, social workers and mentors a fuller picture of what the city's children are going through — be it a divorce, a falling algebra grade or an arrest. )

Desert News (Utah)

BYU professor with ALS honored as baseball helps fight disease

Gulf Times (Qatar)

Two varsities join hands for preview course (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar have partnered together to offer this year’s Summer College Preview Program (SCPP) to young scholars preparing for university entry.)

Herald Tribune (Florida)

Schools fear enrollment drop

Houston Chronicle

More branch campuses bring college closer to home (Higher education is moving to where the students are, with satellite centers and branch campuses popping up across Houston. )

Cy-Fair struggles to balance school needs with low taxes (Superintendent David Anthony said the suburban district is trying to stay financially afloat and remain competitive for the best teachers. )

Indianapolis Star

IPS teacher kept his job despite red flags (Star Watch Investigation: School districts, state agency blamed in molestation case.)

Las Vegas Sun

With success of Singapore campus, UNLV eyes U.A.E. (Last month 41 students in UNLV’s College of Hotel Administration walked across a stage and accepted their diplomas. But they weren't in Las Vegas. They were the university’s first graduating class at its satellite campus in Singapore.)

Lexington Herald-Leader

Colleges focus on veterans' needs (With a fattened GI Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly half a million. That's left many universities looking for ways to ease the transition from combat to the classroom. )

4 up for education commissioner (Education leaders from Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico and Massachusetts are the finalists under consideration to become Kentucky's new state education commissioner.)

National Post (Canada)

Summer School: A gruelling journey

New York Post

News essayists 'on top of the world'

New York Times

We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?

School’s Out, but Many Will Get Free Meals (Throughout the New York region, free meals have spread from poor urban areas to suburban communities once believed to be immune. )

Were They Just Paper Airplanes? (Students took out loans to attend a flight school that later collapsed. Then they pooled resources and hired a lawyer.)

One News Now

Church-affiliated school benefits from court ruling (A court has decided that using government bonds to aid a church-affiliated school in Arkansas is legal.)

People’s Daily Online (Communist China)

State Councilor encourages Chinese college students to
make good use of social practice

Sacramento Bee

California budget cuts target school bus service

Salt Lake Tribune

Private schools, developer Bob Jones under scrutiny

San Antonio Express-News

Ideas clash at Alamo Colleges

SAISD students make CD, music video (On a recent Friday, about two dozen grade-school students gathered in a classroom inside the otherwise empty Cameron Elementary School. The blackboard loomed at the head of the classroom, but the kids weren't there for summer school. They were going to record a music video.)