Monday, July 5, 2010

Teachers’ Union Shuns Obama Aides at Convention - NYTimes.com

Teachers’ Union Shuns Obama Aides at Convention - NYTimes.com
The National Education Association's convention began Saturday. No one from the Obama administration is set to speak.
C.S. Muncy for The New York Times
The National Education Association's convention began Saturday. No one from the Obama administration is set to speak.
In a sign of the Obama administration’s strained relations with teachers’ unions, no federal official was scheduled to speak at either union’s convention this month.
Andy Tureff working with International Baccalaureate students at Greely High School in Maine.

International Program Catches On in U.S. Schools

The International Baccalaureate, an alternative to the Advanced Placement program, is offered in 700 schools.

Budget Deficit and Wars’ Cost Draw Fire on the Home Front

The debate over an $82 billion war spending bill has opened up a clash between House Democrats and the White House over the deficit and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
SUNDAY ROUTINE | JENNIFER RAAB
Jennifer Raab, president of Hunter College, and her daughter Miranda Goodwin-Raab, 17, in their Bronx backyard.

Multitasking, With Time for the Roses

Jennifer J. Raab, the president of Hunter College, tends to her family and her garden.

House Passes $80 Billion War Spending Bill

The bill would include $10 billion to help school districts avoid educator layoffs, paying for the effort with $800 million in cuts to several of President Obama’s education initiatives.

In Blow to Bloomberg, City Must Keep 19 Failing Schools Open

A state appellate court has ordered New York City not to shut down a group of low-performing schools.
Elise Boulding in 1980.

Elise Boulding, Peace Scholar, Dies at 89

Ms. Boulding, an instructor at Dartmouth and the University of Colorado, was also an author of numerous books.
Admission into top universities like Sciences Po in Paris effectively guarantees top jobs for life.

Top French Schools, Asked to Diversify, Fear for Standards

The ideal of race-blind meritocracy is being tested by the efforts at the elite universities that produce the nation’s leaders
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