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College for $99 a Month

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Monthly - By Kevin Carey - Oct. 05 (Special Report) - Colleges are caught in the same kind of debt-fueled price spiral that just blew up the real estate market. They’re also in the information business in a time when technology is driving down the cost of selling information to record, destabilizing lows.

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The Rural Brain Drain

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas - Sep. 24 (Special Report) - American youth are abandoning the Midwest's small towns. The sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas explore causes and remedies.

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An Army of Home-Schooled "Christian Soldiers" On a Mission to "Take Back America for God"

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Kunzman - Sep. 07 (Special Report) - “America is in a culture war. A few good soldiers can make a difference. Equip yourself and come join the battle!” So proclaimed the founders of Generation Joshua, a civics program from the Home School Legal Defense Association begun in 2003. “Our goal is to ignite a vision in young people to help America return to her Judeo-Christian foundation,” its leaders explained. “We provide students with hands-on opportunities to implement that vision.” As I began my homeschooling research six years ago, the birth of Generation Joshua caught my attention. Here was a civics education program aimed at homeschoolers, one that clearly sought to help nurture in students an idea and practice of citizenship informed and energized by their deep religious convictions. Perhaps the homeschooler president of Michael Farris’s dream would emerge from such an education.

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Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Juan Gonzalez - Sep. 04 (News) - Journalist David Goodman writes in the new issue of Mother Jones, quote, "Using data mining, stealth websites, career tests, and sophisticated marketing software, the Pentagon is harvesting and analyzing information on everything from high school students' GPAs and SAT scores to which video games they play. Before an Army recruiter even picks up the phone to call a prospect, the soldier may know more about the kid's habits than do his own parents."

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Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Nate Blakeslee - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - ... the dual language experiment has been a success by any measure. By the sixth grade, kids in the program—regardless of which language they spoke when they first enrolled—are outscoring native English speakers on the TAKS tests. They can also read, write, and speak Spanish at a sophisticated level.

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Asian Americans' Rising Suicide Rates -- Three Students Take their Lives - NAM

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Aug. 13 (News Analysis) - Three Chinese-American students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have killed themselves in the last three months. Two died by helium asphyxiation and the cause of death of the third student, though deemed a suicide, is yet to be determined. Their stories have been covered in the Chinese language media, but remain virtually unreported in the mainstream.

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Pakistan: Ruined Farmers Say Children Won't Go to School

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Ashfaq Yusufzai - Aug. 06 (Special Report) - PESHAWAR, Aug 6 (IPS) - Fertile Swat's famous orchards of peach, plum and apple were just starting to ripen when the Pakistan military launched an air and land attack on Taliban fighters in end-April, uprooting tens of thousands of civilians.

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Is Google Killing General Knowledge?

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

moreintelligentlife.com - By Brian Cathcart - Aug. 05 (Special Report) - The average student, though better-informed than the earl’s daughter appears to be, seems not to value general knowledge. If asked a factual question, they will usually click on a search engine without a second thought. Actually knowing the fact, committing it to memory, does not seem to be a consideration.

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Campers for Peace

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

flypmedia.com - By Tara Kyle - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - A summer camp famous for bringing Israeli and Palestinian teens together takes on the conflicts of South Asia.

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Vietnam War Architect Robert McNamara Dies at 93

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Howard Zinn, Marilyn Young, onathan Schell, Amy Goodman - Jul. 07 (News Analysis) - Over half a million Americans went to war on his watch, a war that ultimately killed over 58,000 American soldiers and at least 3 million Vietnamese. ... Less well-known is McNamara’s key involvement in the firebombing of 67 japanese cities shortly before the end of World War II that destroyed 50 to 90 percent of the cities. He described the bombing operations he analyzed under the general Curtis Lemay in a 2003 documentary by Errol Morris, “The Fog of War.” In a single night on March 10th, 1945, he told Morris, quote, “We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo—men, women, and children.”

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Some vets find new GI Bill a great deal in some states, a letdown in others

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

newser.com - By Associated Press - Jul. 06 (News Analysis) - An Associated Press review of state-by-state benefits under the new bill shows huge discrepancies in the amount veterans can receive.

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Raising a healthy gamer: seven tips for parents

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Ben Kuchera - Jul. 02 (Special Report) - Parenting is always a tough job, and video games are a tricky subject in today's families. Don't worry, we have you covered. Ars offers a no-BS guide to dealing with gaming and your children, and our advice is simple: you know your children better than anyone else.

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Kenneth Surratt, Bob Peterson, JUAN GONZALEZ, AMY GOODMAN - Jun. 23 (News Analysis) - The Obama administration has made opening more charter schools one of its top priorities in its plans to improve the nation’s education system. On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at the annual gathering of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC. His address came on the heels of a new Stanford University report that found that, on average, students in charter schools were not faring as well as students in traditional public schools.

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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part III)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Toru Olarunda - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - I think President Obama symbolizes a mix of the best and the worst. I think that, in his heart, he's a genuinely good person. But that's not enough. I don't think we judge people by their intentions. I think we judge them by their policies. And I think we have to understand that Obama is the tip of the iceberg. I think Obama has opened up a space of possibilities; but I think that we fail in our inability to, in a sense, push him left. He's already made a number of bad judgments. Everything from the financial advisors he surrounds himself with; to his views on education; to his views on foreign policy; to his views on torture, rendition and "State Secrets."

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Study: Gay Men, But Not Women, Do Better at College

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - Gay male college students are more motivated to learn and more likely to be mentored than their straight counterparts, and their above-average grades suggest this kind of engagement makes a real difference.

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Cairo University staff, students weigh in on Obama’s visit

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

thedailynewsegypt.com - By Tamim Elyan - Jun. 03 (News Report) - US President Barack Obama’s choice of Cairo University as the venue from which to make his much-anticipated address to the Muslim world elicited different reactions from university staff and students.

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Study Shows TV Distracts Babies

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

kuow.org - Jun. 01 (Special Report) - Remember when your parents told you not to watch too much TV. They said it wasn't good for you? Turns out they were on to something. On Monday, June 1, the Seattle Children's Institute released a two–year study that examined the effects of television watching on infants. Researchers found that babies that watched television appeared to know fewer words.

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Teaching in the Downturn

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

tolerance.org - By Jennifer Holladay & Tim Lockette - May. 11 (Special Report) - Few of today's teachers can remember an economic situation quite like the one we now face. To find analogies for the collapse of the housing bubble and the subsequent credit crisis, we have to search not our memories but our textbooks. The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath suddenly make more sense now. Generations of students have groaned at the task of memorizing acronyms like FDIC or FNMA: now they seem to leap off the pages of the history books. What will happen next? Will the economy bounce back, or will a wave of foreclosures create an invisible "Dust Bowl," uprooting hundreds of thousands of people? And how do we teach in this environment? To help our readers navigate these uncharted waters, we called in the experts. In the interviews below, social critic Meizhu Lui offers her take on where the crisis may lead us, and psychologist Melanie Killen talks about how to help your students cope in a time when the economic news is grim.

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Crossing the Gap

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

tolerance.org - By Tim Lockette - May. 11 (Special Report) - Brandon Saunders has trouble believing there are places like New Trier High School — a public school with an ivy-walled, university-like campus, with gyms for almost every sport, a multi-room college counseling center, and bright-eyed teachers planning their lessons in cubicle-like offices as up-to-date as any in corporate America. "It's immaculate," he said after seeing New Trier's campus. "I was blown away." Amanda Cohen has trouble believing there are schools where kids have to share textbooks, where parents are asked to supply toilet paper, and where no one comes to fix a bathroom without a door.

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How a Student-Friendly Kindle Could Change the Textbook Market

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Jeffrey R. Young - May. 06 (News Report) - Rumors that Amazon will introduce a wide-format Kindle have the news media and bloggers speculating about whether the new gadget will spark an electronic-textbook revolution and lighten backpacks nationwide.

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An Unlikely Duo Pushes for Entrepreneurship in Schools

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Seyward Darby - May. 06 (Special Report) - An "odd couple" of think tanks have combined forces on education reform. This morning, the Center for American Progress (CAP), the organization that spawned numerous Obama administration officials and policy ideas, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), considered a leading architect of Bush administration policy, unveiled a joint report on innovation and entrepreneurship in education. Seated on a panel at the swanky Hotel Monaco on F Street, representatives of the two groups shared friendly jabs--literally, they were nudging each other behind the microphones--about how unlikely it had seemed that the two groups would ever find common ground. But they found it, and the fruits of their labors are detailed in the report "Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education."

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Barack Obama & the DC School Voucher Program

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Nick Gillespie - May. 05 (Special Report) - Mercedes Campbell is one of the 1,700 students in the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004. The program gives students up to $7,500 to attend whatever school their parents choose. For kids like Mercedes, who now attends Georgetown Visitation Prep, the DC voucher program is a way out of one of the worst school districts in the country.

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An education bubble? Data from the explosion of AP tests

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Culture11 - By Razib - May. 05 (Special Report) - One datum that suggests an irrational bubble in education is that a much larger fraction of the population is going to college now, and that not surprisingly the average IQ of college students has declined by about 2/3 s.d. -- admissions boards began to scrape deeper down into the sludgebucket of society.

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Frist visits, boosts education reform

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

timesfreepress.com - May. 05 (News Report) - When it comes to working out the details of a pet project, it’s all about who you know, said former U.S. Senator Bill Frist. Dr. Frist, a former Senate majority leader, stopped by Orchard Knob Elementary on Monday to brainstorm with teachers on how to improve education across the state. Orchard Knob was the first of 40 stops Dr. Frist will make across Tennessee during the information-gathering phase of his initiative, the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, or SCORE.

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Gentrification, Education, and School Reform

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

indypendent.org - By Alex Kane - May. 04 (News Report) - gentrification not only transforms the social and economic infrastructure of poor neighborhoods, but may also displace the existing school system.”

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