Cheating at Barnard
Source: NY Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 18:55:13 -0700 | education-news
Considering the cost of a Barnard-Columbia education, could a machine or a teaching assistant or even the instructor herself correct students' work? Shelton, Conn., May 9, 2013 The writer is a retired social studies teacher at Wilton (Conn.) High School....
Michigan District Fires All Teachers, Closes Every School
Source: Education News
Cupertino :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 18:30:12 -0700 | education-news
Summer break has started very early for kids in one Michigan school district. The Buena Vista School District website states that they consider it their "highest calling to be entrusted with the care and education of the community's children....
Project Pinstripes Dresses Detroit Students for Success
Source: Education News
Cupertino :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 11:31:24 -0700 | education-news
Content Project Pinstripes Success is about educational achievement, self-confidence, and forward thinking...Well-groomed people, suits and ties, professional attire -- these are the accessories of success. But if you're a young, disadvantaged, minority man, you probably have little chance...
Colleges Should Do More to Align Programs With Job Market
Source: Education News
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 09:22:45 -0700 | education-news
That is the question being asked by Joshua Wyner, the Executive Director of Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, in an article for the Huffington Post. He takes for his departure point the statements made by both President Barack Obama and...
Nigeria's Education Problem: Economic Ambition, But Weak Education
Source: Education News
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-13 07:53:16 -0700 | education-news
Education For All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report shows that ~61 million childen worldwide are denied the opportunity to receive a basic education. Approximately 1 out of [...] Chapter II of Nigeria's Constitution guarantees an education for every child, but over...
We Need a New Approach to Principal Selection
Source: Education Week
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 06:18:29 -0700 | education-news
Bonnstetter In charting a course to sail your boat around the world, you don't hire a navigator who still believes the Earth is flat. Yet we continue to ask those vested in our present education system to create a new...
Greece invokes emergency powers to block teachers' strike
Source: Education News
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-05-12 09:43:35 -0700 | education-news
Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike that would disrupt university entrance exams that start this week, the official government gazette said. It is the third time this year that Prime...
Advocacy Group Wields Charter-Policy Power
Source: NY Times
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 18:40:48 -0700 | education-news
May 11, 2013 As his legislation expanding the state's virtual school network reached the floor of the Texas House in early May, Representative Ken King was focused on what it was not. Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Children and...
Bullies Turn Cyberspace Sour
Source: Education News
London :: AR :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 11:48:39 -0700 | education-news
The Internal Revenue Service's admission that it inappropriately targeted conservative political groups for special scrutiny during the 2012 presidential election only gives congressional Republicans more ammunition as they try to defund and weaken the agency.
Overcoming Addiction, Professor Tackles Perils American Indians Face
Source: NY Times
Louisville :: KY :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 10:39:57 -0700 | education-news
The visitor to Haskell Indian Nations University detailed his roaring 20s: drug addict, garbage collector, suicidal burnout once told by a doctor that he was mentally retarded. It was a curious way to inspire a group of young American Indian...
The Commencement Controversy
Source: NY Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 09:53:19 -0700 | education-news
McHugh, the former Army secretary, at the State University of New York at Oswego...All are notable figures who were invited to participate in college graduations in recent years, only to withdraw or be disinvited in the face of campus protests....
Fourth No Confidence Vote for the President of N.Y.U.
Source: NY Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 20:26:28 -0700 | education-news
The vote this week of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development was 117 to 45 against the president, John Sexton, and followed votes by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study ; the College of Arts and Science...
A Superintendent Shortage Is Shaking Up America's Schools
Source: Education News
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 17:58:27 -0700 | education-news
Earlier this week, Baltimore City Public Schools made headlines when CEO Andres Alonso tearfully announced his retirement at the end of the school year. Alonso's tenure at the troubled school district is touted as a true success story within national...
How Class Size Affects Students' Learning
Source: NY Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 17:39:39 -0700 | education-news
There is a delicate dynamic, and the more students you add to the mix, the more complicated the interactions become, with disruptions becoming far more likely. A crowded classroom decreases physical space between students and also makes it more likely...
Parents Fight, Sue for Special Education in California
Source: Education News
Morgan Hill :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 12:02:07 -0700 | education-news
Parents are claiming that the state is not doing enough to live up to the guarantees made by the government that [...] A trial appears to be imminent in the lawsuit brought by parents of Morgan Hill special education students...
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