Saturday, August 14, 2010

Federal Funds Boost California Jobs Budget Goals, Republicans Risk Throwing Away $1.2 Billion in Aid | California Progress Report

Federal Funds Boost California Jobs Budget Goals, Republicans Risk Throwing Away $1.2 Billion in Aid

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By Assemblymember Nancy Skinner
SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly address, Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) thanks the President and Congress for advancing comprehensive legislation to save jobs but notes analysis from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office shows the Governor’s budget proposal, which Republican leaders support, risks making California schools ineligible for $1.2 billion set aside in the federal legislation to keep California teachers on the job.
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‘We Have to Reach Further Than the Classroom'

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Bill Freeman is the new president of the San Diego Education Association.

Posted: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:31 pm | Updated: 11:09 pm, Fri Aug 13, 2010.

While he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army, Bill Freeman mentored middle and high schoolers. But when he retired, he decided he needed to start earlier, in elementary school.

Freeman took up a second career and taught for a dozen years at Porter Elementary in Lincoln Park, drawing on his experiences growing up "not wealthy" in Waco, Texas. Last year, he was honored as Elementary Teacher of the Year. This year, he was elected as the new teachers union president, replacing Camille Zombro.

We joined him over coffee on his first

Tough solutions for high school truancy rate

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More college students mentally ill, study shows

The number of college students who are afflicted with a serious mental illness is rising, according to data presented Thursday at the...

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UC Berkeley will not send students DNA results

Under pressure from state public health officials, the professors behind UC Berkeley's controversial plan to genetically test incoming...

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UC, postdoctoral researchers achieve labor pact

The fighting is over between the University of California and its staff of 6,500 highly educated but low-wage postdoctoral researchers...

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Require kindergarteners to be 5 by Sept. 1

When you think back to kindergarten, you probably remember finger painting, listening to stories, playing in the sandbox and nap time...

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Dropout-prevention program reinstated for Tolleson district

by Megan Gordon - Aug. 14, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Tolleson Union High School District's dropout-prevention program, Jobs for Arizona's Graduates, is undergoing major changes.

Student objections and grant funding for the program caused the district's five schools to reinstate the program, but it will look dramatically different this fall, said Dennis Dowling, Tolleson Union's executive director of curriculum and instruction.

Students will now participate in an after-school program and be eligible for an elective half-credit rather than receiving full credit and attending class during the school day,

Quick Takes: Court Orders Raises for Nebraska State College Faculty - Inside Higher Ed

Court Orders Raises for Nebraska State College Faculty

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered raises of 7 percent for the past academic year (awarded retroactively) and 4 percent for the new academic year for faculty members at Chadron State, Peru State and Wayne State Colleges, The Omaha World-Herald reported. The court ruled because of an impasse between the faculty union, affiliated with the National Education Association, which has been pushing for the raises, and the state college system, which said that they couldn't be afforded. The Supreme Court ruling upheld findings of the state's Commission on Industrial Relations, which had called for the raises to be awarded. State college officials said that paying for the raises could lead to serious budget cuts, potentially including layoffs.

Candidates: Competitive grants hurt rural states� - AP Politics - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports -

Candidates: Competitive grants hurt rural states

By The Associated Press

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The Democratic and Republican candidates for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat said Friday that the Obama administration's shift to federal education funding based on competitive grants puts rural states at a disadvantage.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Republican challenger Kristi Noem debated education issues and funding Friday at the convention of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota and School Administrators of South Dakota.

Herseth Sandlin is being challenged by Noem and independent candidate B. Thomas Marking, who did not participate in the debate.

The two candidates fielded questions on such topics as the federal No Child Left Behind law, funding for students with disabilities and competitive grants programs such as the Education

In Inquiry at Marc Hauser’s Harvard Lab, a Raid and Then a 3-Year Wait - NYTimes.com

In Harvard Lab Inquiry, a Raid and a 3-Year Wait

By NICHOLAS WADE

Published: August 13, 2010

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Marc Hauser’s academic career was soaring when suddenly, three years ago, Harvard authorities raided his laboratory and confiscated computers and records.

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Rick Friedman for The New York Times

Marc Hauser, who has explored the origin of morality, is on academic leave.

Inquiry on Harvard Lab Threatens Ripple Effect (August 13, 2010)

Dr. Hauser continued to publish and lecture widely until last week, while all the time researchers at Harvard and elsewhere who knew of the raid kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.

In January this year, a faculty committee at last completed its report, said to contain eight charges against Dr. Hauser. But the report was kept secret and nothing changed until this month when someone showed The Boston Globe a letter about the investigation from Dr. Hauser to his faculty colleagues. Dr. Hauser’s automated e-mail reply says he is “on leave, furiously writing a book.”

Dr. Hauser has been one of Harvard’s rising academic stars, with a public visibility approaching that of the

Data Show Low Loan Repayment at For-Profit Schools

by By TAMAR LEWIN

The schools are already under scrutiny after an investigation showed fraudulent practices in student recruitment.

August Historical Events Fill-In

by By KATHERINE SCHULTEN

From Hiroshima and the 19th amendment to Woodstock and Elvis Presley, here are 31 historical events that took place in the month of August. How many of the fill-in-the-blanks can you get right?