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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Read/WriteWeb - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Fair, thorough, enterprising and in context - that's what we're looking for in the journalism we read, isn't it? At a time when shallow ranting takes up so much space in public discourse, a new media evaluation technology offers hope, inspiration and is a lot of fun to use.

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The administration keeps the right principles in amending No Child Left Behind

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Mar. 17 (Editorial) - The administration has embraced the principles of accountability, disaggregating data and insisting that no student groups -- not minorities, not those with disabilities -- be left behind. The details will be key, but it is heartening that the administration is mapping out a direction true to education reform. Let's hope Congress agrees to go along for the ride.

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After 3 Suspected Suicides, a Shaken Cornell Reaches Out

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Trip Gabriel - Mar. 17 (News) - Professors have been telling their students that they care about them personally, and the university is promoting counseling services.

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Changes to No Child Left Behind would affect schools differently

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 16 (News Report) - For most public schools, the perceived heavy hand of the federal government would become a lighter touch under President Obama's plan to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. But for others, the consequences of academic failure would stiffen considerably.

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New York City Public Schools Launching 'Trayless Tuesdays' - 1010WINS.com

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

1010wins.com - Mar. 16 (News) - The New York City public schools are launching an initiative called "Trayless Tuesdays.'' Polystyrene lunch trays will be replaced with environmentally friendly paper containers. The schools serve over 623,000 lunches every day.

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Bad News

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - Mar. 15 (Other) - They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism. The students, along with other NewsTrust users, spent...

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For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Peter S. Goodman - Mar. 14 (Special Report) - Long accused of overpromising and underdelivering, commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and more Pell grants.

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Obama Proposes Sweeping Change in Education Law

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sam Dillon - Mar. 14 (News Report) - While the proposals call for interventions in failing schools, they would also reward top performers and lessen federal interference in tens of thousands of reasonably well-run schools in the middle.

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10 Big Ideas: The Dropout Economy

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Reihan Salam - Mar. 14 (Comment) - 10 Big Ideas: The Dropout Economy

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Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. - Mar. 13 (News Report) - After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.

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Education funding priorities shift

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In final push to pass student aid bill, funding for key elements in Obama's agenda is dwindling.

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E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrea Elliott - Mar. 13 (News Report) - A federal commission has determined that New York City’s Department of Education discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language public school.

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Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By April Castro - Mar. 13 (News Report) - Decisions by the board – made up of lawyers, a dentist and a weekly newspaper publisher among others – can affect textbook content nationwide because Texas is one of publishers' biggest clients. Ultraconservatives wielded their power over hundreds of subjects this week, introducing and rejecting amendments on everything from the civil rights movement to global politics. Hostilities flared and prompted a walkout Thursday by one of the board's most prominent Democrats, Mary Helen Berlanga of Corpus Christi, who accused her colleagues of "whitewashing" curriculum standards. By late Thursday night, three other Democrats seemed to sense their futility and left, leaving Republicans to easily push through amendments heralding "American exceptionalism" and the U.S. free enterprise system, suggesting it thrives best absent excessive government intervention.

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Critics: Obama’s ed policies no better than Bush’s | eSchoolNews.com

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Super-active students are over-scheduled

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

harvardmagazine.com - By Craig Lambert - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - The French film director Jean Renoir once declared, “The foundation of all civilization is loitering,” saluting those unstructured chunks of time that give rise to creative ideas. If Renoir is right, and if Harvard students are among the leaders of the future, then civilization is on the precipice: loitering is fast becoming a lost art. And if the tornado of achievement that whirls through Cambridge has its obvious rewards, there are, as with most tornadoes, downsides.

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Common set of school standards to be offered

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 10 (News Report) - Blueprint from nation's governors and state school chiefs is a crucial step in Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.

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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sam Dillon - Mar. 10 - The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s motley current checkerboard of locally written standards.

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Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Diane Ravitch - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - ... accountability turned into a nightmare for American schools, producing graduates who were drilled regularly on the basic skills but were often ignorant about almost everything else. Colleges continued to complain about the poor preparation of entering students, who not only had meager knowledge of the world but still required remediation in basic skills. This was not my vision of good education.

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1.5 Percent Less For Education

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

City Limits - By Helen Zelon - Mar. 08 (News) - Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts funding across the board for city agencies and services, but less so at "bedrock" city departments like Police and Fire, where annual reductions of 0.6 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively, are called for. But the Department of Education – which educates 1.1 million students and has a budget of $21 billion – faces a 1.5 percent cut in the coming fiscal year, of $113 million.

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Building a Better Teacher

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elizabeth Green - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - What makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm and having passed the teacher-certification exam on the first try. When Bill Gates announced recently that his foundation was investing millions in a project to improve teaching quality in the United States, he added a rueful caveat. “Unfortunately, it seems the field doesn’t have a clear view of what characterizes good teaching,” Gates said. “I’m personally very curious.”

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Head of the Class

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Doug Lemov - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - In these video clips from actual classrooms around the country, Doug Lemov, founder of the charter-school network Uncommon Schools, analyzes techniques that effective teachers use to get students to pay attention and follow instructions.

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PS 9's PTA pays for 33 teacher aides

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Post - By Susan Edelman - Mar. 07 (News) - The "PS" in this public school should stand for "parent support." Going way beyond bake sales, the PTA at PS 9, the Sarah Anderson School on the Upper West Side, has raised enough money to pay for 33 teacher aides -- more than in any other school, the Department of Education says.

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Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Evan Thomas, Pat Wingert - Mar. 06 (Special Report) - The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well as Lithuania, behind at least 10 other nations. Within the United States, the achievement gap between white students and poor and minority students stubbornly persists—and as the population of disadvantaged students grows, overall scores continue to sag.

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The five-year race to save India's vanishing tigers

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Gethin Chamberlain - Mar. 06 (News) - With some conservationists claiming only 800 tigers still live in the wild, radical steps are needed if the species isn?t to disappear from India within five years The poachers perch on the rough platforms they have built in the trees about 15 feet above the forest floor, waiting patiently for the tiger to come. They have been searching the forests of India?s Ranthambhore reserve for days, following the pug marks and other tell-tale signs. When they found the fresh kill, they knew it would only be a matter of time before the tiger returned to eat. Working quickly, they placed their traps on the path, scattering small stones across the dry sandy soil, knowing that tigers hate to walk on them and will pick their way around if they can. The ...

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House GOP Rejects Law Banning Child Abuse

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By James Ridgeway, Jean Casella - Mar. 05 (News) - James Ridgeway points out that GOP House members voted against a law to prevent extreme child abuse in schools. Pretty amazing.

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