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Dallas ISD's check register online! Houston's soon!
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By Peyton Wolcott
EdNews.org
As I write this it's supposed to get down to sixteen tonight here in the Hill Country. It's mid-February and it seems it's been cold a very long time, and it also seems like winter will go on forever, the way we always feel come February.
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Bobb Demands Answers on Lead
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D.C. Board of Education President Robert C. Bobb demands explanation about elevated lead levels in the drinking water at five of 16 District schools.
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Pre-K programs help level education field
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Closing the achievement gap will be impossible if children enter school ill-prepared. Children in Texas public schools must be prepared when they start kindergarten, or they may never catch up to their peers.
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Bill on expanding Head Start clears one hurdle
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SALEM -- A bill that would extend Head Start preschool programs to all eligible Oregon youngsters whose families want them sailed out of a Senate committee after glowing praise from teachers, children's advocates and even a police chief.
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Dangerous Knowledge In Academe
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Remember "Orientalism," that landmark book by the late Columbia University professor Edward Said? The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to discuss Islam, Muslims, or Arabs in anything less than superlatives — and it has succeeded beyond Said's wildest dreams.
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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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Colleges review ethics of textbook selection
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A Miami Dade College professor took a trip to San Francisco, paid for by a textbook publisher. Weeks later, his three-member committee selected the publisher's book as required reading for all anatomy students at MDC's Kendall campus and the department chairman approved.
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RM2.6b rural education boost
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Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced Thursday a whopping RM2.6 billion additional allocation to improve the quality of education and infrastructure in rural and interior areas.
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ACLU targets Tustin Unified's gifted program
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By Seema Mehta
The group says too few blacks and Latinos are enrolled. It threatens to sue if disparity is not corrected soon.
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CBSE readies special package for disabled students
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From making seating arrangements on the ground floor to setting up six dedicated centres for blind students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made special provisions this year to help physically challenged students during their board examinations.
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More succeeding on AP exams
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WASHINGTON — More high school students are proving they can keep up with college-level courses, passing Advanced Placement exams that have become a measure of academic rigor.
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TEA's TODASTWD is NBD
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The Texas Education Agency's lengthy, recently disseminated acronym TODASTWD — Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day -- doesn't hold a candle the world's longest.
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Parents voice concerns about special education
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Birmingham Public Schools officials acknowledged Thursday that they could lose $90,000 in state funding because a top administrator lacked proper special-education certification in two prior school years.
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50pc of parents 'never read to children'
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Parents said they were too tired to read stories to their children or did not have time because of work commitments. The survey, by Raisingkids.co.uk, found children in 47 per cent of families watch television or listen to music instead.
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Plans to end Illiniwek's run
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Chief Illiniwek. (Tribune file photo)
Unless a judge stops them, University of Illinois officials will announce that the storied mascot will dance for the last time.
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Eyebrows up over pulled poverty report
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Preview drew concern of lowered expectations
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Peter Gorman's last-minute withdrawal of a report on high-poverty schools this week has advocates and board members watching his next step with hope and wariness.
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Many inmates 'have very low IQs'
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Report says prisoners may be unable to access education schemes |
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Fees move was vindicated, says Blair
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Tony Blair says a rise in university applications has vindicated the decision to charge top-up fees. Critics of the policy to allow universities to charge variable fees of up to £3,000 a year from September were proven wrong, the prime minister added.
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Teachers see the light
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By Herald Editorial Staff
Members of the Boston Teachers Union - at least a few of whom must teach what used to be called civics - opted against staging an illegal strike this week. Maybe it was the Appeals Court decision, reiterating that indeed it is illegal for teachers to vote on a strike, that made most of the 1,200 who showed up for the vote think twice about that ill-advised decision. Or maybe it was the grumbling from parents who would bear the brunt of even a one-day walk-out.
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Panel advises community colleges on raising graduation rate
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To boost low graduation rates, the state's community colleges should reach out to students with mentoring, support groups, and more full-time faculty, says a state report released yesterday.
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Charter students do well on MEAP tests
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Six of Michigan's top 10 performing charter schools are in West Michigan, according to a ranking based on standardized test scores done by the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.
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Bill to ban political opinions in classes
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Classrooms should not be forums for schoolteachers and college professors to espouse political opinions, a group of lawmakers concluded Thursday.
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Charges dismissed against TSU worker
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Prosecutors on Thursday dismissed charges against one of four Texas Southern University employees accused of misspending hundreds of thousands of school dollars to furnish and landscape the home of former President Priscilla Slade.
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Texas Tomorrow fund up to $3B short
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By TERRENCE STUTZ
Deficit far greater than estimated
AUSTIN – The Texas Tomorrow Fund's prepaid college tuition program is severely underfunded and could be short as much as $3.3 billion to meet its obligations over the next two decades, Comptroller Susan Combs warned Thursday.
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Margaret Thatcher's life in the shadows
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Iron Lady: Lady Thatcher has grown increasingly isolated since her departure from Downing Street 16 years agoAt the House of Commons, in just under a week's time, Margaret Thatcher — who so significantly transformed the fortunes of this country and the world — will come face to face with herself in the form of a 7ft 6in statue in the Members' Lobby.
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Flu Outbreak Closes N.C. School System...
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SWAN QUARTER, N.C. (AP) -- Three schools closed until Monday because of an outbreak of flu-like symptoms that has spread across the state over the past two weeks.
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Richard Garner: Teaching begins at home, not at school
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The success of pupils of Chinese origin in last year's national curriculum tests and GCSEs is to be applauded. Coupled with the showing by pupils of Indian origin, it shows that where there is a culture of learning in the home - as, by and large, there is in these two communities - the child flourishes at school.
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Chinese pupils eclipse all other ethnic groups in English tests
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Chinese pupils are best-performing ethnic group with 86% passing national curriculum tests Schoolchildren of Indian origin come second with 85% achieving the same standard But only 80% of white British pupils manage to reach a similar level in the assessment
By Richard Garner
Children of Chinese origin have outperformed every other British group in English by the age of 11, according to an ethnic breakdown of exam and test results published yesterday.
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'State interest' argued in teaching homosexuality
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Lawyer for parent says school's agenda amounts to 'indoctrination'
Lawyers representing a Massachusetts school district named as a defendant in a parent's civil rights complaint have said teachers at Estabrook Elementary School have a "legitimate state interest" in teaching the homosexual lifestyle, and parents have no input into those decisions.
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It's not enough to say we should listen to children
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If we take anything from this devastating report, it must be just how poorly young people's rights are being served in the UK
Al Aynsley-Green has got it right. There is a crisis at the heart of our society. The children's commissioner was responding to the publication yesterday of Unicef's report on the well-being of children and adolescents in wealthy countries. Its results are devastating. Overall, this country ranks last, making it the worst place to grow up in the developed world.
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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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