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Removal of 2,000 computers from Christina schools draws backlash
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Move would save $70K in licensing costs, help with budget deficit
The Christina School District’s plans to remove about 2,000 “outdated” computers from its schools in order to cut costs were aired publicly at tonight’s board meeting in Wilmington, drawing criticism from some parents.
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Ex-Official Pleads Guilty to Abuse: Student Says School Administrator Tried to Solicit Sex
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A former Leonardtown school administrator who allegedly tried to solicit sex from a student will spend 30 days in jail after pleading guilty yesterday to a lesser charge of felony child abuse.
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Conference Addresses School Shootings
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President Bush said at a conference of school officials, police officers and youth advocates that communities need a list of "best practices" to prevent and respond to the kinds of school attacks that have occurred in recent weeks.
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The Handwriting Is on the Wall
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By Margaret Webb Pressler
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
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$3.9 million grant may fund tutoring for evacuees
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Thousands of students who fled Hurricane Katrina to the Houston schools may soon be offered six-day school weeks and extra tutoring to help them catch up to Texas academic standards.
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A new Girl Scout pledge: relevance
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The group needs America's support as it attempts an overhaul to meet the needs of today's girls. The Monitor's View
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Giving it the college try at Banning High School
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By Paul Clinton
After the school was categorized as a chronic underachiever, officials divided students into smaller learning communities named after four-year California colleges to instill a university culture.
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Math program emphasizes teamwork
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At a recent math class at Central Middle School, sixth-graders sat facing each other in groups of four, debating how to best sort the polygons outlined in the district's new, workbook-like text books.
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Drug tests for children in care from age 10
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Children in care will be forced to undergo drug tests from the age of ten under radical plans unveiled by the Government yesterday. All 61,000 youngsters currently in the care system would be given compulsory mouth swabs to test for cannabis, Ecstasy and cocaine every year until the age of 16.
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Old math is getting new life
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Dan Walters
There are prodigies -- children who have an inexplicable, innate ability to perform virtuoso mental, artistic or physical feats -- but for the vast majority of human beings, acquiring skills is a more laborious process. Simply put, we must crawl before we can walk, walk before we can run, and run before we can aspire to higher levels....
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Harvard study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity
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A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University's Robert Putnam, one of the world's most influential political scientists.
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'07 better time for vouchers, governor says
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State-paid vouchers for private school tuition should have a better chance of passing in the coming legislative session, Gov. Rick Perry said Monday. Foes of the idea disagreed
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Tassone back on LI
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Embattled former Roslyn school chief moved to NUMC jail wing as he awaits sentencing on embezzling charges.
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Some teachers squeeze into MySpace
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There's disagreement, however, on whether educators should make use of teens' wildly popular social Web site.
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Priests in sex abuse cases still holding teaching certificates
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Toledo- Eight priests who have been convicted or accused of child sex abuse continue to hold state-issued certificates to teach in private and religious schools, a newspaper reported Friday.
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Kids put stamp on school fundraising
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By Ben Feller
WASHINGTON --After years of handing over money for candy bars and wrapping paper, parents might see a new school fundraiser this year: their child's art on a postage stamp.
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King papers celebrated
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Spellman professor Regina Blackburn looks over displays of the King papers, which were officially welcomed to Atlanta on Monday.
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Phoenix school starts campus dental clinic
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NORTHEAST PHOENIX - Ana Ramos-Pell, the principal of Palomino Elementary School, knows students won't do well in class if their teeth hurt.
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'Five pillars of Islam' taught in public school
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'Education practice wouldn't last 10 seconds if kids told to dress as priests'
Another school has been "teaching" Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims, and a lawyer who argued a previous dispute over this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court said such methodologies wouldn't "last 10 seconds" if it was Christianity being taught.
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Classes resume at Gallaudet
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Classes resumed at Gallaudet University yesterday as hundreds of student protesters continued a sit-in at a classroom building to call for the resignation of Gallaudet's new president.
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Slighting Special Education
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Regarding the Oct. 2 editorial "Schools Support":
Expanding early childhood programs, funding smaller classes and providing all-day kindergarten are feel-good initiatives that have enticed Montgomery County politicians to jump on the Jerry D. Weast bandwagon.
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Playing Through Pain? Not for Kids: Concussions Take Longer To Mend, Research Shows
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After a nasty collision on the field, a face-first dive and a fierce somersault, soccer player Kerry Aldrich went home three weeks ago with a post-scrimmage concussion. Had it happened several years ago, her coach might have told her to rest through the weekend and report for practice Monday.
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Maine College Makes Green Pledge
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The tiny College of the Atlantic in Maine has vowed to offset all of its greenhouse gas emissions, making it the first college in the nation to seek to fully mitigate its impact on global warming
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Intensity of Gallaudet Unrest Surprised Incoming Leader
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Campus Divide Has Grown, Students Say
Incoming president Jane K. Fernandes's supporters say she is the best hope for bringing the university, the heart of deaf culture for many worldwide, back together.
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The Rise of the U.S. Testing Culture
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Valerie Strauss
As Exam-Takers Get Younger, Some Say Value Is Overblown
Testing reigns in the United States, even in kindergarten classrooms. Americans embrace tests because they are entranced with objectivity -- or at least the appearance of it.
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School security goes high-tech
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Each morning, the 16,000 students in the Spring Independent School District in suburban Houston swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building.
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Student shoots at Mo. school
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Police: No one hurt, 13-year-old had note about explosives.
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Fascinated by the Columbine bloodbath, a 13-year-old boy in a dark green trenchcoat and mask carried an assault rifle into his school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed, authorities said. No one was hurt.
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English is in the minority for pupils
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English is a foreign language for the majority of children in more than half the primary schools in central London.
Pupils with English as a second language or barely speaking it at all outnumber indigenous speakers at 348 of the 695 primaries and at 53 of the 132 state secondary schools in the capital.
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A rush to drug kids when parenting's the problem
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Practice of misdiagnosing, overmedicating is staggering
By ELIZABETH J. ROBERTS
I've been treating, educating and caring for children for more than 30 years, half of that time as a child psychiatrist, and the changes I've seen in the practice of child psychiatry are shocking.
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Lieutenant governor seeks school-defibrillator law
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he will ask the Legislature next year to enact a law requiring all of the state's 8,000 public schools to have at least one automated external defibrillator by the beginning of the school year
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New flap for DISD ex-official
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Technology contract for Detroit schools raises questions of favoritism
Ruben Bohuchot, a former Dallas school district technology chief whose relationships with vendors sparked an FBI investigation last year, is involved in another controversial technology deal, this time in Detroit.
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$100 laptop reinvents computer security
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Revolutionary project takes pioneering approach to protecting machines
The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their computer security measures as for their low-cost economics.
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Education battles the economy for attention in governor race
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LANSING -- Republican Dick DeVos wants to be an education governor. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she already is one.
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Lower standards help Army recruit more
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits in the throes of an unpopular war and mounting casualties.
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Health care job training expands
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Pilot program offers college credit at some area high schools
LANSING - Washtenaw County high school students from four districts will be able to take college-level training in health care fields under a pilot program announced today.
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Dick and Janego bad
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Reading First was supposed to be a fairy tale of a U.S. Department of Education program that ushered children into the wonderful world of reading. Instead, it become a dark fable about corrupt government officials and conflicts of interest.
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Education smorgasbord
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Josh Taylor may just resemble the high school student of the future.
The 16-year-old is not dual-, but triple-enrolled at da Vinci Institute's high school, a graphic design class at the Jackson Area Career Center and two courses at Jackson Community College.
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LEARNING, HEALING
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At the one-room Ronald McDonald House school, young patients and their siblings find normalcy while surrounded by others who understand illness.
BY KEVIN McCAHILL, Pioneer Press
The classroom is filled with clusters of desks with nametags taped across the tops, backpacks hang on hooks and an overflowing bookcase snuggles up to the back wall — all surrounded by the noise and laughter of students.
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St. Louis Public Schools battle chronic truancy
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A Post-Dispatch analysis of attendance records for fifth- and eighth-graders attending the St. Louis Public Schools last year indicates that the number of absences chalked up for those two students was extreme. But they were far from exceptional.
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Clay Robison: One man's pursuit of tax-paid private school vouchers rolls on
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Rich and relentless immediately come to mind when describing San Antonio businessman James Leininger and his longtime pursuit of tax-paid vouchers for private schools.
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Online journals challenge scientific peer review
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Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online.
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Close shameful tutoring gap
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Real political/educational leadership takes care of the kids needing help!
Jennifer Wheary: The federal No Child Left Behind Act promises tutoring to kids in failing schools. Yet as we speak, thousands of eligible students in New York City and around the nation are being denied the help they need.
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Making the grades
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The idea seemed very simple: Assign all 1,450 city schools an easy-to-understand letter grade - A, B, C, D or F - so parents could make better choices for their kids.
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Nonprofit compiling autism resources
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They volunteered their time and their money. They met frequently, sometimes weekly, writing complicated bylaws and brainstorming ways to help others who have been touched by autism, like they have.
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Knock, knock. It's your principal, and he cares Richmond High students get encouraging visits
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Most teenagers would cringe at the sight of their principal or teacher standing on their porch on a Saturday morning. But the Richmond High School students who found themselves in that predicament Saturday did not need to be concerned about bad news.
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Transfers affect everyone
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830 Cincinnati students are taking advantage of a new state program that allows kids in poorly performing public schools to transfer to private schools at no cost to them.
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Texas art teacher, school still sparring
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FRISCO, Texas --Like the artwork that teacher Sydney McGee insists she was fired for letting her students study, her former school says there's more to her dismissal than is apparent at first glimpse.
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Private schools heed call of South
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Sewanee is luring Baltimore graduates
Five years ago, a kid from Reisterstown might have felt out of place at Sewanee, The University of the South, an isolated redoubt of southern gentility where young men wear bow ties to class and young ladies pearls, and professors lecture in academic gowns in the manner of Oxbridge dons.
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Theater to try to tie plays, 3 R's gain
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The curtain could soon be lifted regarding the art of education, with a Valley theater group landing a federal grant of nearly $1 million to study whether drama and theater help students learn core subjects such as reading and writing. If so, the local model will be shared with theater groups and schools nationwide as a way to improve grades and test scores.
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Hopefuls spar over exit exams
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Horne and Williams duke it out in state schools superintendent debate.
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Growth prompts vote in Smyrna
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SMYRNA -- Classrooms are in short supply at Smyrna High School, a 36-year-old facility meant to hold about 1,100 students.
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School Systems Push For Teacher Discounts
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Loudoun County's businesses, banks and apartment complexes will offer inducements to ease high cost of living for educators.
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Board Candidate's Mission to Teach
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One in a series of profiles of candidates for president of the D.C. Board of Education
By Sue Anne Pressley Montes
Sunday Abraham of Brookland is something of a perennial school board candidate, but maybe winning was never her main point.
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Freetime for kids not so merry
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By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
U.S. pediatricians should add "stress checks" to children's exams to ensure that overbooking of enrichment activities isn't hurting their physical or mental health, the American Academy of Pediatrics says Monday.
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Give Mayor a Say in L.A. Schools Chief
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By Ramon C. Cortines
The new superintendent must have broad appeal that can't be assessed just by the School Board.
CHOOSING THE next L.A. Unified superintendent is the biggest decision the school board will make. It should be made with a keen eye on the future.
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Actors in L.A. Unified Drama Veer Toward Comedy of the Absurd
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Bob Sipchen
Someone should write lyrics for the melancholy operetta that's been unfolding as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attempts to wrest control of Los Angeles' public schools from the district's entrenched Board of Education.
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Classes bursting at the seams
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Jay Gussin is an idealistic, passionate teacher who, for more than two decades, has believed his is a noble profession and that educators can shape students' lives. Until this year.
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Louisiana colleges see fewer freshmen
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Parental fear over safety, health after Katrina leads to a sizable drop
They call it the "mama factor."
Even as officials at Louisiana colleges and universities celebrate the return of thousands of students this fall, they watch in dismay the sharper-than-expected declines of entering freshmen, especially those from Texas and other states.
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The challenge: Keeping kids in school
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William Armbrecht has found his place.
He's in an electrical training program at the Academy of Academics and Technology - and has the world in his hands.
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Minorities go to Net for advanced degrees
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Online courses provide anonymity, convenience
BY PAUL TOSTO, Pioneer Press
Carolyn Estes works full time, coaches track and plans to start a business.
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Colorado Springs prep player collapses in game, dies
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Harrison High School is grieving the loss of football player Fermin Vialpando, who collapsed and died Friday during the Panther’s game against Ridgeview Academy.
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A test of confidence
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One of the toughest things for a freshman at Coventry High School is navigating the sprawling building. Jenn Callaghan, 13, center in white shirt, works her way through the crush of students between classes last month.
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Colleges set limit on early admission
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Change forbids offers before Sept. 15 of senior year
A nationwide group of admissions professionals set a limit yesterday on how early colleges can accept students, voting in Pittsburgh to forbid offers before Sept. 15 of an applicant's senior year of high school.
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Religious schools take closer look at security
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The posters sprouted last week, taped inside the row of glass doors that welcomed parents and other visitors into St. Louise de Marillac School in Upper St. Clair.
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Simple schoolhouse a painful reminder
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The laughter of innocent children will never again fill the simple one-room schoolhouse, its windows and doors boarded up for eternity.
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Schools strive to expel violence
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The schools need to remember students have Due Process!
When an intruder killed four students at an Amish school in Pennsylvania last week, it was the fourth fatal school shooting in six weeks and the most violent start of the school year in history.
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Punish parents when kids are tardy? No
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John Beam and Cecilia Blewer: Of course students should get to school on time and show up every day they can. But humiliating parents for their children's attendance and tardiness problems is a big mistake - one that puts shortsighted punitive instincts before the good of parents, children and schools.
Post your comments
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Punish parents when kids are tardy? Yes
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Marc Sternberg: I say bravo to the Manhattan School for Children for its bold new initiative to give parents detention when their kids show up late to school. It's a smart and effective way to send a clear message that schools succeed or fail based on the contributions everyone - parents included - makes.
Post your comments
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Up to court to end sellout of N.Y.C. schools
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Robert Jackson: On Tuesday, final arguments will be made in Campaign for Fiscal Equity vs. State of New York, the landmark education case we've been litigating for 13 years. We're hoping the court will finally make the $4.7-$5.6 billion judgment against the state stick and pave the way for the next governor to enforce it.
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The principal who walks the walk
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A Brooklyn high school principal has begun an unprecedented journey: She's making house calls. By the end of the year, Nilda Gomez Katz plans to have visited all freshmen at Academy for Environmental Leadership.
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Magazine, Kaplan to offer business degree
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Online university executives have been betting for a decade they can sell higher education at a profit by treating students more like consumers -- with a heavier emphasis on market research than traditional universities.
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Teachers make pitch for more pay
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BY TANIA deLUZURIAGA
No contract? Then no homecoming dances, no tutoring sessions, no after-school clubs. That's a threat some disgruntled teachers made last week as all Miami-Dade educators entered their third month of working without a contract.
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International students get help in book
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The University of Kentucky has enrolled 1,526 international students from about 100 countries this fall, some 1,300 of them graduate students.
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Get those pencils ready: It's MEAP time
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Kids, it's MEAP time. So sharpen those No. 2 pencils. Make sure you get enough sleep and eat nourishing breakfasts. And get ready to test just how much you remember from last year. Starting Monday, schools statewide will begin giving the Michigan Educational Assessment Program test to about 900,000 children in grades 3-9. They have three weeks to get the kids tested.
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Utah gets new ed group
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Council of Educators aims to boost dialogue with lawmakers
A new organization is banging the drum for public education in Utah, aiming at providing support for educators and being a fresh resource for lawmakers on education issues.
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Every high school junior should get HIV test, Pfleger says
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A Chicago Roman Catholic priest who has battled drug dealers, big tobacco and alcohol companies during the last 30 years has turned his attention toward AIDS and advocating for sweeping mandatory HIV testing in Illinois.
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Record freshman diversity at U. of C.
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Sitting in a bustling basement coffee shop at the University of Chicago, 21-year-old Anthonia Akitunde said the new faces in many of her classes this semester are "definitely noticeable.''
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Student Web surfers wipe out on MySpace
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By Tyler B. Reed
Kids surfing the Internet at school are blocked from some of their favorites - including MySpace.com and Facebook.com - as officials try to protect...
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School assaults have Hub kids fighting to learn
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By O'Ryan Johnson & Michele McPhee
Madison Park High School tops the list of the Hub's 10 most dangerous schools, where more than 200 students were victims of assault and battery last year, according to statistics obtained by the Herald. In 60 of those cases, the attacker...
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Enlisting minority recruiters
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By Marcella Bombardieri and Sarah Schweitzer
The escalating competition for low-income and minority students at elite colleges is making recruiting difficult at other schools slightly lower on the totem pole.
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