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NEW BEDFORD new schools chief promises change
Newly appointed School Superintendent Mary Louise Francis ended the first day in her new role with a calm and orderly School Committee meeting, a sharp contrast to the public recriminations that marked the last week of outgoing...
SD school board may ease curbs on promotions
This year could mark then end of a policy that keeps failing students in San Diego from being promoted to the next grade level unless they complete summer intervention classes. ...Experts: Encourage kids to enter math, science fields
Experts: Encourage kids to enter math, science fields ...VISTA: VUSD to layoff 48 support employees
Nearly 50 Vista Unified School District support employees are expected to lose their jobs beginning this summer as part of the district's plan to close an $18.3 million budget shortfall for next year. ...
State teachers union targets education bill
The Florida Education Association is leading a battle to defeat legislation that would overhaul how teachers are paid. ...
Ex-MPS leaders speak out at forum
Milwaukee Public Schools can be turned around, but it will need a strong, visionary leader to chart a course of action and stick to it despite the pressures of special interests, the School Board and political forces, several former MPS superintendents said Monday night....Author: ‘iGeneration’ requires a different approach to instruction
Today’s middle and high school students learn much differently from students just a few years older—and that's mainly because they’ve never known a world without the internet or cell phones, says psychology professor and author Larry D. Rosen,... ...Parental notice rule irks Colorado schools
A proposal requiring all Colorado school districts to notify parents within 24 hours if a school employee has been arrested or charged with a serious crime is drawing fire from education groups....Some ISTEP results voided at Parkview Middle School
The social studies section of 88 seventh-graders’ ISTEP exams taken in early March at Parkview Middle School have been invalidated by the Indiana Department of Education because their teacher allegedly coached the students on specific information and vocabulary from the test. ...
READING PERIOD
4.13.10 - Will Fitzhugh - When I was a student at Cambridge University, I was told that term time was for attending lectures and socializing, at Oxford and Cambridge, and vacation time was for reading lots of books (a reading period)....
College not mandatory under exam program
4.12.10 - Ze'ev Wurman and Sandra Stotsky, in their opinion piece ("Grade 10 Diploma Not a Wise Idea," Insight, April 4) misrepresented our proposals....Grade schools consider cutting foreign language classes
Students in Madame Maria Wells' fifth-grade class at Cynwyd Elementary School were having great fun Thursday morning - while learning French at the same time. ...Oklahoma school districts face budget shortfalls
While teachers in Tulsa Public Schools are bracing for hundreds of layoffs before next year, Oklahoma City Superintendent Karl Springer said his district could be in "arguably one of the better financial positions in the state of Oklahoma.”...Survey: School budget cuts even worse next year »
Although the economy has begun to rebound, K-12 education leaders say they are still facing serious budget shortfalls for the coming school year that threaten their ability to implement new technologies, raise the quality of instruction in their... ...Cyber school program reaches at-risk teens
Many are watching a year-old online school, based in Westwood Community Schools, because state leaders want to reach students in danger of dropping out. ...DPS's freezes educator hiring
A change to Denver Public Schools' teacher-hiring process has frozen the system and could result in dozens of veteran teachers being paid even though they are without jobs and not working. ...
School's 'Wicked Witch' sweeps out the 'no' foods
As her second-grade students take out their lunches, teacher Leticia Moreno quickly spots two with forbidden food - a burrito and quesadilla made with white flour tortillas...
College Tour '10: Columbia University
Valerie Strauss - At some other schools you got the sense that, ‘Hey, we’re a great school and you probably can’t get in.’ It wasn’t like that at Columbia. ...
Jay Mathews: Should high schoolers read aloud in class?
Recently I visited a history class at a local, low-performing high school where students read in turn from the autobiography of a famous American. The teacher was bright and quick. He interrupted often with...