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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

A University Chancellor Is Selling Altria Stock - NYTimes.com

A University Chancellor Is Selling Altria Stock - NYTimes.com

One of the city's seven Temporary Reassignment Centers, where suspended teachers were required to spend the day, day after day.
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
One of the city's seven Temporary Reassignment Centers, where suspended teachers were required to spend the day, day after day.
The waiting places known as rubber rooms were a requirement for teachers accused of incompetence or wrongdoing, who would idle there on full salary.

Justices Rule Against Group That Excludes Gay Students

The majority said public institutions of higher learning were not required to recognize student groups that did not accept all comers.

University Chief Is Selling Tobacco Holdings

Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann of the University of California, San Francisco, is re-evaluating her portfolio after questions about her stock in Altria.
POISONED WEB
Students at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J., are old hands at text messaging, but not all of the words are friendly.

Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray

Affronted by cyberspace’s escalation of adolescent viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection, even revenge.

New Diploma Standard in New York Becomes a Multiple-Question Choice

The impact of a tougher requirement for passing Regents examinations remains unclear, five years after it was adopted to take full effect in 2012.