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MIDDLE-SCHOOL STRUGGLES
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`Reform math' Investigations in elementary schools and Connected Mathematics doesn't add up, Dublin critics say
Debate over a controversial math program in Dublin has been multiplied by test results showing that middle-school students there are struggling to divide.
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Debate Over Children and Psychiatric Drugs
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Early on the morning of Dec. 13, police officers responding to a 911 call arrived at a house in Hull, Mass., a seaside town near Boston, and found a 4-year-old girl on the floor of her parents’ bedroom, dead.
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Cheating on Tests - Geography should not determine standards of learning.
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EDUCATORS who are successful in turning around troubled schools say the first step is collecting reliable data. A true measure of performance is the only way to identify problems and map improvement. Yet, five years into the No Child Left Behind Act and its mandate for accountability, too many states are still gaming the system by administering weak tests. They boast about high scores, but their claims are as phony as the performance of their students.
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No Child Left Behind? These Kids Just Want to Come in From Cold
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Things have been crazy since last Monday when we had to leave our school because of flooding and loss of heat. We were sent to Evans Junior High School in overcrowded conditions, sharing space with another high school. If all of our nearly 800 students had come to school, there would not have been room for us in the 19 rooms we had to use there.
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Stop Gumming Up Sex-Ed, and Leave It to Pros
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The Rockville Pregnancy Center admits its attempt to show teenagers the dangers of sexual promiscuity by asking them to share a piece of gum is 'disgusting.'
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Elevated Lead Levels Found at Five Schools
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Schools identified at hearing are Bowen, Hearst, Kenilworth and Watkins elementary schools and Alice Deal Junior High School.
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2007 All-USA College Academic Team
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Academic skills meet the world.
Watching physicians treat her baby sister's cancer made Yoonhee Patricia Ha want to become a doctor. A desire to help all of society made her want to become a public-health physician. Going to Ohio State, the country's largest university campus, from a small Appalachian high school with no Advanced Placement courses, gave her a jump-start.
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Postgraduate numbers fall
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The number of Scottish postgraduate students has declined over the past 10 years, fuelling fears for the future of the country's economy. According to official figures, there are now 565 fewer Scots-born postgraduate students at Scottish universities than there were in 1999, with the largest decline in engineering and technology, which fell 45%; computing science, down 42%, and chemistry and the physical sciences, which have both declined by 32%.
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Students profess love for mathematics at Cowbell competition
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The strategic plan embarked upon by Promasidor Nigeria Limited since 1998 to demystifying Mathematics among secondary school students appears to be working.
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Gates' big plan for UW: creating an ambitious public-health institute
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Harvard University was humiliated last year when software mogul Larry Ellison reneged on his promise to give the college its biggest-ever...
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School to erase Goethe name?
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Staffers say honoring man with racist views insults the students.
Go to C.M. Goethe Middle School and ask to see the portrait of the Sacramento millionaire whose name graces the Meadowview school. You won't be directed to the library or the multipurpose room....
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Teachers may be given limits on advising about medication
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The Republican-dominated Legislature often champions smaller government, but on Wednesday, it advanced a bill that spells out what teachers may and may not say to parents.
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Districts aim to fix dropout problem
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New state allotment is used to fund a mix of potential remedies. Legislation that overhauled public school finance in Texas last year included one small piece that has normally critical Texas school superintendents raving: a $275 allotment for each high school student for districts to spend on dropout prevention and college readiness.
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Charter school official seeks state probe of city district
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An organizer of one of three charter schools voted down by the Pittsburgh school board last night wants a state investigation into whether the school district improperly limits competition to protect its enrollment and finances.
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US think-tank opens Doha office this year
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THE Doha office of the Washington-based Brookings Institution will be opened this year, the institution’s policy analyst, Stephen Grand, said yesterday.
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19 more Independent Schools
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ADVANCING the cause of comprehensive education reform, the Supreme Education Council (SEC) will open 19 new Independent Schools in September, taking the total number to 65.
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Brady chimes in on school funds -
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U.S. Rep. Bob Brady this week added his voice to the debate on the city school district's worsening financial situation. "The key to the future of our school district rests, in large part, in the confidence that our governor and state Legislature have in the School Reform Commission," Brady said.
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Needed Fixes for No Child Left Behind
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No Child Left Behind is unlikely to succeed unless Congress strengthens the law and puts a lot more money behind it. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 — which requires states to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students in exchange for more federal dollars — is the most far-reaching educational reform since the country embraced compulsory education in the early 20th century.
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Record number in special ed - more than one in eight
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"We used to call it 'the wait and fail model,'
Targeted programs get credit for shrinking the biggest group -- those with learning disabilities. More than one in eight Oregon children is receiving special education services this school year, topping 80,000 for the first time, the state reported Wednesday. But the biggest group in special education -- students with learning disabilities -- is declining. Educators say that's partly because of new programs that identify struggling children early and help them get on track without costly special education services.
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State's li'l schools deserve big support
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Errol Louis: One of the most important lines in Gov. Spitzer's vast, $120 billion proposed budget ups funding to the state's 36 community colleges by more than $614 million.
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Felonies Soaring in City Schools, New Data Show
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By JILL GARDINER
The number of laptop computers, pocketbooks, iPods, and other property being stolen in the city's public schools is on the rise....
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SCHOOL CRIME JUMPS THEFTS TOP LIST
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By DAN MANGAN
A huge increase in grand larcenies - in cluding thefts of laptop computers - boosted the overall rate of major crimes in city schools a whopping 21 percent, of ficials revealed yesterday.
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Student achievement at heart of MPS race
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Candidates differ on means to betterment
The four candidates for the 3rd District Milwaukee School Board seat, representing much of the north side, differ on how to change the overall success rate of students in Milwaukee Public Schools - but all agree that big improvement is needed.
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Charter schools OK'd despite audit
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BY TANIA deLUZURIAGA, [email protected]
The largest charter-school operator in South Florida will run five new schools in Miami-Dade County in August, despite a district audit that accuses the company of engaging in ``illegal acts and questionable business practices.''
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School board trims an additional $8.8 million
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The Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education voted Wednesday to cut an additional $8.8 million from its budget for the 2007-08 school year.
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Crisis point over UK's disaffected youth
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Britain faces a 'crisis at its heart' because of the way it treats its young, the Children's Commissioner for England warned.
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Rising tuition, fewer in-state students
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Auditor: Consider reducing cost of college
By Art Jester, HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
High tuition has reached a crisis in Kentucky's public universities and community colleges, causing a decline in full-time, in-state students that jeopardizes Kentucky's plan to have 800,000 college graduates by 2020, state Auditor Crit Luallen said in a report released yesterday.
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Enrollment keeps passing projections
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Sierra Vista High School shifted 400 of its overflowing students to Durango High School last year to relieve crowded classrooms ...
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'Ex-students could fund universities'
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PM appeals to alumni for donations. Universities would collapse without tuition fees and must now seek to find a third major source of income through fund-raising, Tony Blair says today.
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Like automakers, schools must change or perish
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Tom Watkins
Without fixes, educators won't earn more funding
M ichigan citizens value education. Yet, 62 percent of Michigan's voters rejected the November ballot Proposal 5 to "guarantee" funding increases to our local public schools. The voters understood that the money was for the adults and not the children, so more money wouldn't automatically translate into higher quality and achievement.
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Merge districts, services to gain money for students
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Every time someone mentions the phrase "school consolidation," Tom White sees a tiny, white-haired woman, wagging her finger in protest. "She said, 'How dare you! How dare you touch our schools!'" White, executive director of the Michigan School Business Officials, recalls of the public hearing he attended in Lansing. "I thought to myself, 'Never again.'"
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Mainland opposes Taiwan authority's revision of history textbooks
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The Chinese mainland has voiced firm opposition towards Taiwan authority's revision of history textbooks that plays down the Nanjing Massacre or neglect it in certain versions.
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Don't corekt my spelling
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Some Oldham elementaries drop word tests as part of focus on writing
At Harmony Elementary, students through third grade aren't told that "throw" is spelled "t-h-r-o-w" and "snowball" is "s-n-o-w-b-a-l-l." The school has thrown away its spelling tests and spelling books, and it's not the only one.
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Panel offers ideas to fix education law
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An independent panel urged Congress on Tuesday to make a federal education law tougher on teachers and principals but easier on schools that show progress in raising test scores.
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Blair boosts universities' funds
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The Prime Minister confirms plans to match donations given to England's universities. The government has pledged to give £1 for every £2 universities raise from ex-students and philanthropists.
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Many degree students 'cheating'
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Many university students are cheating because teaching is too formulaic, the Higher Education ombudsman says. Baroness Deech said that the expansion of higher education meant too many degrees now involved ticking boxes and absorbing hand-outs.
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Report faults Ohio school testing, funding
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A report delivered to the State Board of Education Tuesday said the state should completely overhaul its school-funding system, phase out the Ohio Graduation Test and radically change the way it recruits, trains and compensates teachers and principals.
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Grant access to higher education
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EDWARD M. KENNEDY
WHEN CONGRESS passed the Higher Education Act in 1965 , lawmakers were guided by the principle that no qualified student should have to for go college because of the cost. Shamefully, Congress has lost sight of this fundamental point.
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SMU faculty opposes Bush's order on papers
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DALLAS — Southern Methodist University's Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to ask the school to request that President Bush rescind his order allowing former presidents to keep White House documents secret forever.
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Sue Palmer: How we forgot the art of child rearing
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While chatting recently with teachers in the Netherlands, I mentioned that many British children now start learning the 3Rs when they've just turned four. The women teachers' faces contorted with horror. "But that's cruel", they said. "They should be playing out in the sunshine." Their headteacher burst out laughing. "Over here on the mainland, we think you Anglo-Saxons are mad," he said.
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Land wants 16-year-olds to preregister to vote
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Completing papers early aims to give them head start at 18
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has been on the job long enough to know when people are most excited about visiting one of her department's branch offices.
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Schools strive for 'no parent left behind'
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By Stacy A. Teicher
Public schools facing pressure to perform are working to help parents be more engaged in their children's educations. With schools increasingly held accountable for the performance of every student, the demand to partner with parents has intensified. School plays and fundraisers supported by moms, dads, and grandparents are still staples of American public schools. But in the spirit of "it takes a village," families now might find such activities paired with a workshop on test-prep or a briefing on how to read state accountability reports.
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UN says British, U.S. kids worst off in industrial world; Canada 12th out of 21
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BERLIN (CP) - British and American children are among the worst off in the industrialized world, according to a UN report Wednesday that ranked the well-being of youngsters in 21 wealthy countries.
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PUHSD to readopt salary schedule
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Teacher pay affected by handbook's elimination
Karina Bland
The Phoenix Union High School District board will meet in a special session tonight to readopt the salary schedule it inadvertently eliminated when it threw out its teachers handbook earlier this month.
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Give state's high schools a makeover
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Barry E. Stern
Education should excite students and teachers and be relevant to employers
Michigan's high schools need a makeover. They bore too many students, frustrate too many teachers and are deemed irrelevant by too many employers.
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'No Child' Panel Lays Out Ambitious Plan
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Tommy G. Thompson, a former Cabinet member, is a panel chairman.
Proposal would, for the first time, require schools raise student's science scores, and ensure seniors are proficient in reading and math. A commission proposed a wide-reaching expansion of the No Child Left Behind law yesterday that would for the first time require schools to ensure that all seniors are proficient in reading and math and hold schools accountable for raising test scores in science by 2014.
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College prep school for at-risk boys to open in August
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EAST NASHVILLE —Bridges Academy will cater to boys who want to go to college, not boys who have been labeled as "bad students." According to Laurice Jackson, the future school's executive assistant, Bridges is not a reformatory school for students in trouble.
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Scotts Valley parents asked to pay $36.13 if their kid skips school
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Parents whose kids take a day off from school will be asked to open their wallets. That will be $36.13, please. Desperate to hold on to every penny of state funding, Scotts Valley Unified School District leaders are asking parents to make a donation to the district for the amount it loses every time a student is absent for a reason other than illness.
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Enrollment projected to drop again in fall
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SAN DIEGO – San Diego public school enrollment is expected to decline for the seventh straight year in September, yielding a potential loss of more than $12 million for the state's second largest school district, according to a new forecast.
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Business leaders press for more school funds
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H-E-B CEO, former lieutenant governor talk advocacy. AUSTIN — Some of the state's corporate heavy hitters and former Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff are teaming up to defend Texas public schools and ask lawmakers to invest more in education.
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Anti-bully bill passes committee
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HB186 Would create a system for tracking and dealing with school bullies. Next step: Goes to the full House. School serenity
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Blitz is on for college recruits
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CSUS gets more aggressive as it faces competition from private schools and a waning pool of college-age students.
A group of students at California State University, Sacramento, spent a recent afternoon calling high school seniors and community college students to congratulate them on getting accepted to Sacramento State....(
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'Real' schools train teachers
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At Wexford Elementary School in Pine, student teaching is a two-way street. Students from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania get classroom practice and earn the needed credits.
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On Different Pages With Bilingual Education
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By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Recent decisions on school closures have fueled the debate over bilingual education. When Lafayette High School in Brooklyn was ordered last year to begin shutting down, condemned as an educational failure, Steve Chung stood ready with a plan for what might come next. The city Education Department had decreed that Lafayette’s building, in Bensonhurst, would be converted into several new, small schools, and Mr. Chung envisioned one of them serving the neighborhood’s large population of Chinese immigrants.
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Tougher Standards Urged for Federal Education Law
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By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
A private bipartisan commission recommended to block chronically ineffective educators from working in high-poverty schools. No Child Left Behind, the federal education law, should be toughened to judge teachers and principals by their students’ test scores, and to block chronically ineffective educators from working in high-poverty schools, a private bipartisan commission recommended on Tuesday.
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Klein's Cadre
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The latest tactic in the effort to block school reform in the city is aimed at one of Chancellor Joel Klein's deputies, Christopher Cerf. He was asked at a parents meeting last week about whether he had a financial interest in a for-profit education company, Edison Schools. Mr. Cerf said he didn't, but, without misrepresenting anything, failed to say he'd given up his warrants in the company only the day before.
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CITY BOOSTS HS TESTS FOR SEX DISEASE
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By CARL CAMPANILE
About 40,000 city high-school students will be offered voluntary, confidential urine tests next year to detect two sexually transmitted diseases - double the current number who are offered tests,
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Students push for more funding
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Washington - Matt Guidry, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is already $20,000 in debt and worrying about how he's going to afford graduate school. This week he's in Washington with hundreds of other students lobbying for the Student Aid Reward Act.
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Deal aims to reduce class size
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By Howard Blume
In lieu of potentially larger raises, the L.A. teachers union wants funds earmarked to make classes smaller across the board. This year's protracted negotiations between the teachers union and the Los Angeles Unified School District added a new wrinkle to the traditional back and forth over salary and benefits. The tentative deal, reached Monday night, will make reducing class size an increasing focus of the school system's future reform efforts
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Teachers deal has high price
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A new contract that gives Los Angeles teachers a 6 percent raise and reduces class size will cost the Los Angeles Unified School District $200 million more than budgeted, and officials vowed Tuesday that
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11 projects chosen to boost Qatarisation
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The meeting was chaired by Planning Council general secretary Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor al-Thani. The projects, an offshoot of Qatar's Labour Market Strategy (LMS), prepared by the World Bank, aim to develop suitable and effective labour policies for ensuring maximum participation of Qataris in the country's economic development and enhanced labour productivity.
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Students failing to bite at bursaries bait, figures show
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Top-up fees have sparked a boom in bursaries as universities compete for students, but the generosity of scholarships is not always luring new students, new report shows.
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Improving schools starts with improving teachers
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Sharlonda Buckman has heard the complaint too often: Kids feel their teachers are unequipped, acting more as babysitters than educators. But she never imagined the state would listen.
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Sindh to hold separate exam for class IX
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KARACHI, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has directed all educational boards in Sindh to issue the schedule for class nine examination, thereby scrapping the plan for composite examination of class nine and ten....
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Rough road yet for vouchers
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State education leaders say there could be a rocky road ahead for the nation's most comprehensive voucher bill, which was signed into law earlier this week by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.
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'Bully charge boy should not be in court'
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A High Court judge expressed surprise and regret yesterday over the criminal prosecution of an 11-year-old boy accused of bullying of a kind "which in my day would have been dealt with by the school".
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Lessons too easy, say pupils
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Comprehensives are failing to stretch thousands of teenagers even when they divide them into ability sets, according to academics at the Institute of Education. Large numbers of 13- and 14-year-olds say they want harder work and believe they are in the wrong sets for maths, English and science, says their report.
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Students seek degrees that will pay off
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Degree subjects most likely to lead to employment are recording the highest increase in applicants from students facing tuition fees of £3,000 a year, say universities. Figures for the number of applications for undergraduate courses today will show sixth formers have not been deterred by the extra cost of studying.
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British youngsters get worst deal
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Britain last of 21 countries in UN assessment. The scathing report by the UN children's fund, Unicef, says youngsters are better off overall in every other industrialised country, including less wealthy nations such as Poland and the Czech Republic.
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How Britain is failing the next generation
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Underage sex and pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, poverty, violence, educational failure...could there be any more horrifying snapshot of Blair's Britain than today's damning report on the plight of the nation's children?
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School ban on kiss chase and tag
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A school bans tradition playground games like kiss chase and tag because play is getting "too rough".
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Universities offer more bursaries
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Universities are offering numerous bursaries but this does not affect application rates, a report says.
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Students demand Gorman's support
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West Charlotte kids say good teachers leaving
West Charlotte High students and parents brought their own vision of school reform to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday.
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Panel OKs 3.5 percent raise
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Hikes cover teachers, other school personnel
The House Education Committee passed legislation Tuesday that would give teachers and school service personnel 3.5 percent annual pay increases.
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More students apply to university
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The number of students who applied for UK university courses this year is up 5%, figures are expected to show. The rise is the first sign that higher fees are not deterring students.
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Federal schools law up for debate again
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It has been five years since the No Child Left Behind Act swept into classrooms across the nation, and it's time for Congress to reauthorize the law and begin debating how it will change. Business, education and political organizations are weighing in now, trying to sway Congress toward big and small changes.
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Lessons in wrap
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Victorian schools are devising creative answers to the climate crisis. THE mystery for Syndal South Primary School's prep teacher was why her pupils had become the hapless victims of the local beehive. One, two, three bee stings . . . What could be the cause?
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Texas House on move against Perry's HPV order
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The Texas House will take its first step Monday to overturn Gov. Rick Perry's mandate that girls be vaccinated against a virus linked to cervical cancer.
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Kansas education board repeals guidelines questioning evolution
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TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule.
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Son sold $24,000 in shirts to dad's school
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In DISD card inquiry, invoices show father's name; he denies fault
When the administrators at the Dallas Independent School District's Village Fair campus needed student shirts, Korey Beard was the go-to guy.
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