NYT > Education: Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices 2008-04-25
The real-world examples incorporated more and more by educators in recent years can impede math learning, an experiment found.
NYT > Education: Rockefeller Gives Harvard $100 Million 2008-04-25
David M. Rockefeller's gift, the largest by an alumnus in university history, will support international study and arts education.
NYT > Education: Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds 2008-04-25
About half of 700 students surveyed said they sometimes omitted proper punctuation and capitalization in school assignments.
NYT > Education: Criticism for Degree to Governor's Daughter 2008-04-25
West Virginia University showed "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding Heather Bresch, the daughter of Gov. Joe Manchin III, a master's degree she did not earn, an independent panel said.
NYT > Education: Big City: Disabled During '68 Columbia Melee, a Former Officer Feels Pain, Not Rage 2008-04-25
Of all the people touched by the events at Columbia University campus on May 1, 1968, probably few saw their lives change as much as Frank Gucciardi.
Chronicle.com - Today's News: Congressional Panel Weighs Social Science's Role in Warfare 2008-04-25
The Pentagon must take better advantage of social scientists' insights about warfare and terrorism, several members of Congress said during a hearing on Thursday.
Chronicle.com - Today's News: Faculty-Union Grievance Spurs Investigation of Retirement Funds at Youngstown State U. 2008-04-25
The university will look into allegations that money from some professors' paychecks was not deposited into their retirement accounts in a timely fashion. Any delays were largely the result of the switch to a new administrative software system, a university spokesman said.
Chronicle.com - Today's News: Faculty and Board at Odds Over President of Culinary Institute 2008-04-25
After faculty members at the New York college voted overwhelmingly this week to express no confidence in its president, L. Timothy Ryan, the institute's board immediately gave him a unanimous vote of confidence and extended his contract as well.
Chronicle.com - Today's News: In Reversal, Chase Eliminates Some Discounts for Student Borrowers 2008-04-25
Two months after saying it would eliminate the origination fee on government-backed student loans, JPMorgan Chase
Boston.com -- Education news: Justin Pope, AP Education Writer: Q&A: New head of US colleges talks about her field 2008-04-25
Molly Corbett Broad, former president of the University of North Carolina, takes over next Thursday as president of the American Council on Education. The group is the most prominent higher education organization and the chief voice of colleges and universities in Washington. She sat down recently with The Associated Press in her hometown of Chapel Hill, N.C., and these comment ...
Boston.com -- Education news: Anna Jo Bratton, Associated Press Writer: Shots reported at 2 schools in Omaha; soccer player injured 2008-04-25
An eighth-grade soccer player was shot and wounded during a game at a middle school Thursday, around the same time that gunfire was reported at an elementary school about a mile away.
Boston.com -- Education news: Tania deLuzuriaga, Globe Staff: Patrick applauded for boost to prekindergarten programs 2008-04-25
Governor Deval Patrick has shed a condemnation for "failure to act" and earned new status as "budget hero" in the eyes of a national education advocacy group, which is hailing the governor's decision to increase funding for prekindergarten programs.
washingtonpost.com - Education: Study Highlights Changes In D.C. School Enrollment 2008-04-25
More than 200 of the District's 234 public and charter schools are over 90 percent African American or Hispanic, while seven are majority white, according to a new study of racial patterns in school enrollment.
washingtonpost.com - Education: 3 Schools Are Given $100,000 Grants 2008-04-25
Three schools in the District were awarded grants of $100,000 each yesterday and lauded as "champions of quality" at a fundraising gala for a philanthropic group dedicated to improving the lives of children in the city.
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Joe Smydo: How crisis management meeting went awry 2008-04-25
On the morning of Monday, Oct. 15, eight West Virginia University officials and faculty members gathered to find a way out of a growing crisis. Hanging in the balance were the university's reputation and that of a prominent alumna, Heather Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin.
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Len Boselovic and Patricia Sabatini: WVU made 'flawed' decision 2008-04-25
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University administrators made a "seriously flawed" decision fraught with favoritism in awarding Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch a graduate degree she didn't earn, investigators said in a scathing report released yesterday.
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Veronica Nett: WVU's judgment 'flawed' 2008-04-25
MORGANTOWN, W.Va - West Virginia University administrators' decision to retroactively award Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter a master's degree last year was "seriously flawed and reflected poor judgment," according to a panel that investigated the dispute.
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By The Associated Press: Bresch says she won't challenge degree decision 2008-04-25
In a single line, the investigators said it all: "It didn't have to have to happen this way.''
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Vicki Smith, the Associated Press: WVU regroups after degree scandal 2008-04-25
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - In a single line, the investigators said it all: "It didn't have to have to happen this way."
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Justin D. Anderson: Manchin says money, agent changed Rodriguez 2008-04-25
The Rich Rodriguez a lot of West Virginians now view as a disloyal opportunist isn't the same Marion County guy Gov. Joe Manchin has known for decades.
Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer: 23 states face budget gaps in '09 2008-04-25
Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their rainy day funds and hoping revenues will pick up. But the faltering economy already has punched a $26 billion hole in 23 state budgets for 2009 - and it could get worse, according to a new report issued today (April 25).
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: EDUCATION-PAKISTAN: Religious Schools - Boon or Bane? 2008-04-25
KARACHI, Mar 25 (IPS) - Mehboob Illahi, 15, cannot wait to leave Pakistan | and the Jamia Binoria, the largest madrassa (religious school) in Karachi, forever.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: THAILAND: Islamic Teachers Blamed For Violent Separatism 2008-04-25
BANGKOK, Mar 24 (IPS) - As Thailand's new government searches for fresh | options to quell an escalating insurgency in the country's south, its stance towards the region's pondoks (Islamic schools), will be keenly watched.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: POLITICS: A Textbook Tale of Two Reports 2008-04-25
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - Iran's post-revolutionary education system | continues to teach children to discriminate against women and religious minorities, according to a report released Tuesday by Freedom House, a Washington-based nonprofit group that seeks to encourage democracy in the world.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: KENYA: Education Amidst Displacement 2008-04-25
KITALE and ELDORET, Kenya, Mar 16 (IPS) - With the new academic year in Kenya underway, | teacher Moses Simiyu Kalenda is once again instructing children -- just not in the place where he expected to be doing so.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: BRAZIL: Small Fishermen Trade in Nets for Oyster Farms 2008-04-25
FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, Mar 6 (IPS) - In a modest restaurant on a beach at the southern | tip of the Brazilian island of Florianópolis, a couple celebrates, with champagne and oysters, "one more year of vacations and love."
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: LEBANON: Children Get to Work Early* 2008-04-25
BEIRUT, Mar 4 (IPS) - Walid is a wide-eyed boy of 10. His frail figure, | of the kind common in such poverty-stricken areas, seems smaller than for a child his age. His hands are covered in dirt and paint. Here, in Ard Jalloul (the land of Jalloul), located in the populous Tarik Jdideh neighbourhood of Beirut, he works as a painter from 8am to 6pm for 7 dollars a day.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: BRAZIL: Keeping Indigenous Identity Intact in "Urban Village" 2008-04-25
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil, Mar 3 (IPS) - "I desperately want to go back. I feel like I'm | living in a prison here, but I stay on because I love my children," says Conceição Gonçalves, who misses the indigenous village of Taunay where she lived until last year, when she moved to the capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
IPS Inter Press Service - Education: Q&A: As Civil Wars End, Child Soldiers Decline 2008-04-25
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - The number of child soldiers, who are forcibly | pressed into military service in conflicts worldwide, has declined: from about 300,000 in 1997 to an estimated 250,000 now, says U.N. Under-Secretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy.
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