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Student’s Arrest Tests Immigration Policy Education News - The New York Times

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Student’s Arrest Tests Immigration Policy

By ROBBIE BROWN
Jessica Colotl speaking Friday at a news conference in Atlanta after being released on bail.
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Jessica Colotl speaking Friday at a news conference in Atlanta after being released on bail.
A college student who is an illegal immigrant has unwittingly provided the latest test of whether local officials should be enforcing federal immigration law.

Citing Individualism, Arizona Tries to Rein in Ethnic Studies in School

By TAMAR LEWIN
Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona has once again upset the state’s large Hispanic population, signing a bill aimed at ending ethnic studies in the Tucson schools.
Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University of New York, at an Albany hearing in January. In his 11 years in the job, Dr. Goldstein's base pay has risen to $490,000 from $250,000.

Growth of CUNY Chancellor’s Salary Outpaces Rise in Faculty’s Pay

By LISA W. FODERARO
In his 11 years as chancellor, Matthew Goldstein’s base pay has grown to $490,000 from $250,000, bringing criticism from the professors’ union president.
Elena Kagan's time at Harvard is under debate. Ms. Kagan, right, visited Senator Susan Collins on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Nominee Scrutinized for Hiring on Race

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Critics say that Elena Kagan did not create enough racial diversity at Harvard, and her supporters counter that she demonstrated a commitment to equality.

California: Attention, Parents of School Truants, State Senators Have Turned Their Eyes to You

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday under which the State would hold parents responsible if their children regularly skipped school.
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Kenny Anderson played for Georgia Tech before becoming an N.B.A. vagabond. He now lives in Pembroke Pines, Fla.

Education of a Point Guard Comes Full Circle

By GEORGE VECSEY
Nineteen years after leaving Georgia Tech for a career in the N.B.A., Kenny Anderson is about to earn a college degree.
Franklin K. Lane Campus High School’s Francisco Rojas threw 109 pitches during a 3-0 loss Tuesday.

New York High School League Is Posting Pitch Counts

By HARVEY ARATON and ANDREW KEH
Whether the number of pitches that a teenage boy is allowed to throw should be left to trust or should be a matter of prescribed rule has become the subject of intense debate.
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A Digital Boot Camp to Groom Talent for Agencies

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
A new program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, called Boulder Digital Works focuses on creativity and technical skills for new media.
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Minority student activists protest education cuts - USATODAY.com

Minority student activists protest education cuts - USATODAY.com

Minority student activists protest education cuts
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Student activist Jesse Cheng at the University of California, Irvine, is part of a growing movement of minority students rallying around a new cause -- fighting a budget crisis that's undermining access to higher education at a time when students of color have become a stronger demographic force.
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Student activist Jesse Cheng at the University of California, Irvine, is part of a growing movement of minority students rallying around a new cause -- fighting a budget crisis that's undermining access to higher education at a time when students of color have become a stronger demographic force.



IRVINE, Calif. — If campus activism still brings to mind peace signs, a sea of white faces and liberal strongholds like Berkeley, meet Jesse Cheng.By Eric Gorski, The Associated Press
Cheng is a third-year Asian-American studies major at the University of California, Irvine, a campus less than five decades old in the middle of Orange County, a place of strip malls and subdivisions that gave birth to the ultraconservative John Birch Society.
Comfortable talking with both administrators and anarchists, Cheng is a presence at protests but avoids getting arrested. He doesn't want to put his graduation at risk or upset his mother, who worked hard to get him here and worries for his safety because she witnessed what happened to dissidents in her native China.
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International Curriculum Blasted as Anti-American EducationNews.org

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International Curriculum Blasted as Anti-American

5.15.10 - Foes of an internationally focused curriculum offered in some northern Idaho schools have been
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Support Charters of No Fed Dollars

5.15.10 - In a dramatic show of White House support, President Obama's education czar will visit a Brooklyn charter school Tuesday to help persuade the foot-dragging state Assembly to lift the cap on the number of...
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Red ink in the classroom

5.15.10 - THE FEDERAL government sent an unprecedented $100 billion to schools last year as part of the stimulus package. The aim was to avert draconian cuts in school personnel and programs while fostering reform. ...
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Why education reporting will live on and thrive

5.15.10 - "Until people perceive education journalism as a route to long-term professional success, it will be hard to re-invigorate school-related coverage," they
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VALERIE STRAUSS
The Answer Sheet
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

Posted at 8:59 AM ET, 05/15/2010

Literacy kudzu

Will Fitzhugh, editor of The Concord Review, questions, no, savages, the way students are taught to read in school.
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Why education reporting will live on and thrive

"Until people perceive education journalism as a route to long-term professional success, it will be hard to re-invigorate school-related coverage," they conclude. "Just as we undervalue the teaching profession, so do we undervalue education journalism. Our schools will not achieve as we would like them to until we give adequate respect and reward to teaching." Sorry, guys. It isn't going to happen
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Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News| Latest News

Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight



11:53 PM CDT on Friday, May 14, 2010

By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News
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AUSTIN – A leading social conservative on the State Board of Education will push for further doubt to be cast on separation of church and state when the board goes back to work on proposed curriculum standards for social studies next week.
Board member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, has distributed several changes he will propose before board members take a final vote on the standards. The curriculum will dictate what is taught in classrooms and must be included in textbooks for U.S. history, government and other social studies courses in Texas schools.


Trainer urges Plano ISD trustees to back superintendent, avoid dissent



11:48 PM CDT on Friday, May 14, 2010

By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
mhaag@dallasnews.com
Plano's newest school board members gathered Friday for a five-hour crash course in local governance.
"You want to do everything you can to make your superintendent successful," said Don McAdams, a 69-year-old education consultant from Houston who led the training. "Governance is hard work."
The three newly elected trustees, along with existing members and Superintendent Doug Otto, scribbled notes on everything from how to
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US to raise standards for school beef Education news - Boston Globe - MCAS results - latest education news - Boston.com

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US to raise standards for school beef

WASHINGTON — Ground beef purchased by the federal government for school cafeterias will have to meet higher safety standards by July, officials said yesterday.(Associated Press)

37 years after earning degree, Simmons grad takes the walk

Some things really are better late than never. Just ask Faith Gobuty. Although she received her bachelor’s degree from Simmons College 37 years ago, Gobuty finished school early and did not get to attend commencement, until yesterday morning. (By Stefanie Geisler, Globe Correspondent)

Archdiocese to help banned student

The Archdiocese of Boston said yesterday that it would help find a new Catholic school for a boy who was barred from a Catholic elementary school in Hingham because his parents are lesbians. (By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff)

Teachers union, Johnson reach stalemate on plan

The Boston Teachers Union and School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson have reached stalemate over her plan to extend the school day and make other changes at 12 underperforming schools, pushing the monthlong dispute into the hands of an arbitrator. (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)

Schools move to educate staff, students on response to bullying

For the longest time, bullying has fallen into the “kids will be kids’’ category, a negative yet somewhat unavoidable part of growing up. But following the suicides of Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, a Springfield 11-year-old who took his own life last year after being bullied, and Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Irish immigrant in South Hadley who hanged herself in January ... (By Christine Legere, Globe Correspondent)

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