Saturday, October 2, 2010
Cal fans may be stunned by the decision to cut five sports teams. But few familiar with the burden that athletics adds to campus finances were surprised. For months, Berkeley campus leaders hinted at the unpopular reality that came to pass this week.
Gone are four teams including men's and women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse and men's baseball.
A fifth team, the top-ranked men's rugby
Education reformers should be happy campers, writes Jay P. Greene in We won! Instead, Rick Hess and Mike Petrilli are gloomy and Liam Julian fears the new crop of naive reformers are doomed to fail,
Let’s review. It is now commonly accepted among mainstream elites — from Oprah to Matt Lauer to Arne Duncan — that simply pouring more money into the public school system will not produce the results we want. It is now commonly accepted that the teacher unions have been a significant barrier to school improvement by protecting ineffective teachers and opposing meaningful reforms.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale University and Boston's Simmons College are being awarded federal grants to research government-funded food and nutrition assistance programs.
Those programs include the former food stamp program now known as SNAP -- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- and the related program WIC, which stands for Women, Infants and Children.
Yale is receiving $265,000 from the U.S. Agriculture Department to study
Climate Film Depicts Children Assassinated For Not Reducing Carbon Footprint 10.2.10 - Matt Ryan | Over 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide have implemented a system requiring parents visiting their children to undergo a background check upon arrival to the school. 10.2.10 - While bullying may have played a role in a recent string of nationally publicized suicides of young people, experts warned Friday that taking one's life often is the result of multiple issues. ... 10.2.10 - "No touch" rules discouraging teachers from restraining and comforting children are to be scrapped, Education Secretary Michael Gove says. ... 10.2.10 - Laurie Ahern | It's time to end the abuses being pegged as beneficial for children with disabilities.... 10.2.10 - Amid the chatter about the Obama administration's Race to the Top funds, NBC's Education Nation programs and the release of the film "Waiting For 'Superman'" (warning: I am in it), I am not hearing much about how education schools fit into this new saving our schools ferment. ... |
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Washington (CNN) -- Five weeks after Tea Party enthusiasts rallied in Washington and one month before mid-term elections, a coalition of liberal groups will have their turn on the streets of the U.S. capital.
The "One Nation Working Together" together rally kicks off Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall.
The alliance of progressive and liberal groups say they've joined together to demand more economic opportunities and better education.
Organizers claim a wide range of supporters, some of whom are already associated with liberal causes -- like union workers, environmentalists, gay activists and student leaders. But "One Nation" also claims backing from less obvious quarters -- like senior citizens, veterans and faith leaders.
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