Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Is Everything You've Been Taught About Study Habits Wrong? - NYTimes.com
Is Everything You've Been Taught About Study Habits Wrong? - NYTimes.com
Is Everything You’ve Been Taught About Study Habits Wrong?
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
According to an article in this week’s Science Times, “some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong,” yet schools and parents continue to teach students methods have been proven to be ineffective. How do you study best? Do your study habits run counter to advice your teachers, parents or schools have given you?
In “Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits,” Benedict Carey writes:
Parents worry over safety as school crossing guards cut - The Boston Globe
Parents worry over safety as school crossing guards cut - The Boston Globe
Struggling towns cut crossing guards
With school opening, parents fret over safety
 | Colleen Kelley was among the Weymouth residents who volunteered to work as a school crossing guard before local school officials found the money to hire guards. “I’m just concerned with the safety of the kids, ” she said. (John Tlumacki/ Globe Staff) |
With cash-strapped cities and towns scouring budgets for expenses to slash, they’ve cut back on everything from teachers to libraries and sports programs, and as school begins this year, parents in some places were dismayed to learn of one of the latest economies.
“How could they cut back on crossing guards?’’ exclaimed Richard Doyle, whose 9-year-old son found no escort to cross the busy street in front of Weymouth’s Frederick Murphy School last week.
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Local News | Ferndale teachers vote to strike | Seattle Times Newspaper
Local News | Ferndale teachers vote to strike | Seattle Times Newspaper
Ferndale teachers vote to strike
Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
The Associated Press
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FERNDALE, Wash. —
Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
The Bellingham Herald reports that a bargaining session with a mediator Tuesday afternoon yielded no progress.
Ferndale Education Association President Tracie Morris says the sticking point is more planning time for elementary school teachers. Morris says they now average 24 minutes a day and the union wants at least
Back to school kicks off with one-day first week, Brooklyn parents and teachers peeved
Back to school kicks off with one-day first week, Brooklyn parents and teachers peeved
The Jewish New Year holiday of RoshBrooklyn parents and teachers are ticked off this year's public school schedule requires kids to show up for classes Wednesday - and then take the following two days off.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/09/08/2010-09-08_oneday_school_week_drives_parents_and_teachers_nuts.html?r=ny_local/education#ixzz0ywK3FPXB
Back to school kicks off with one-day first week, Brooklyn parents and teachers peeved
Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 4:00 AM
The Jewish New Year holiday of RoshBrooklyn parents and teachers are ticked off this year's public school schedule requires kids to show up for classes Wednesday - and then take the following two days off.
UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch
UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch
UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding
At a time when California's public universities are bemoaning the decline of state funding as a piece of their overall budgets, one highly ranked public graduate school is planning to forego state funding altogether in favor of greater flexibility.
Officials at UCLA's Anderson School of Management say forfeiting state funding would give the school more freedom to set fees and spend fee revenue. The plan – described by UCLA as financial self-sufficiency – woul
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance
It seems like everyone is feigning surprise over Daley's "time to move on" announcement yesterday. Not me. The writing was on the wall back in July whenda mayor's poll numbers dropped down into the 30s. And why not? Daley's botched attempt to land the Olympic Games caused havoc and scandal in the ranks of his speculating business patrons--possibly even leading to the suicide of his real estate-speculating school board president, Michael Scott. His giant privatization yard sale of everything not nailed down, from the Skyway, to the schools, even the city's parking spaces, has left this once-proud city, on the brink and mortgaged up to its eyeballs with federal investigators once again, sniffing around City Hall.
Daley was the first of the big-city mayors to take control of the public schools, which he then turned into another wing of his patronage machine. He reshaped
Good riddance
Daley was the first of the big-city mayors to take control of the public schools, which he then turned into another wing of his patronage machine. He reshaped
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