viernes, 24 de junio de 2011

Education review

Games With No Screens and Food That’s Not Fast

By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI

Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen

Campers cool off after playing at Hoover Community School in Redwood City, as part of Children's Power Play.

When summer arrives and the structure of school days ends, many children fall into bad habits, but Children’s Power Play!, a statewide initiative, aims to correct that.

City Rejects Unions’ Offer to Help Close Budget Gap

By FERNANDA SANTOS and JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ

The leader of a group of municipal unions accused city officials of shutting the door on negotiations over a financial rescue package that could avert thousands of teacher layoffs..

Representative John Kline, center, with fellow Republicans.

Republican Challenges Administration on Plans to Override Education Law

By SAM DILLON

Representative John Kline of Minnesota said he would use a House rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law to rein in Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s influence.

For SUNY and CUNY, Top Lawmakers Support Plan to Raise Tuition $300 a Year

By WINNIE HU

More than 350,000 students would be affected by the proposed legislation, which is intended to make tuition increases more predictable.

Free, but Unemployed, in Tunisia

By ANGELA GIUFFRIDA

The lack of jobs for university graduates — a root cause of the revolution in Tunisia — remains to be addressed as the country steps slowly toward democracy.

Learning Empathy by Looking Beyond Disabilities

By WINNIE HU

A new program aims to promote tolerance among students at Ridgewood High School by connecting them with disabled peers.

Michele Bachmann and her daughters - from left, Caroline, Elisa, and Sophia - at home in 2004. Mrs. Bachmann said she worked until Caroline, the second-youngest of five, was born.

Roots of Bachmann’s Ambition Began at Home

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Representative Michele Bachmann’s political awakening began with her encounters with the school system when she was a foster mother.

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In Data, ‘A’ Schools Leave Many Not Ready for CUNY

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS and ROBERT GEBELOFF

The new figures also showed a clear link between college remediation and how well students performed before high school.

Opponents and supporters of the suit against the Department of Education clashed outside court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Both Sides Square Off at Hearing on Charter School Suit

By FERNANDA SANTOS

Plaintiffs and opponents clashed outside a hearing on a lawsuit by the teachers’ union against the city’s Education Department over a proposal to close schools.

Plan Aims to Revitalize Detroit Schools

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Michigan officials announced a plan Monday to overhaul Detroit’s struggling schools by moving the worst ones into a new system in the fall of 2012.

ON EDUCATION

Members of the Army Junior R.O.T.C. program at Francis Lewis High School in an annual pass-in-review ceremony last month.

At High School in Queens, R.O.T.C.’s Enduring Influence

By MICHAEL WINERIP

The program at Francis Lewis High School, which has grown every year since its inception, is the largest of the 1,725 high school chapters in the country.

Wess Young, 94, fled with his mother and sister as armed white men rampaged through his neighborhood in 1921.

As Survivors Dwindle, Tulsa Confronts Past

By A.G. SULZBERGER

Tulsa’s race riot of 1921 has been mentioned rarely in public or private. Now, advocates are pressing for recognition.

No prom or yearbook, but a diploma, of sorts.

After Home Schooling, Pomp and Traditional Circumstances

By TAMAR LEWIN

A nontraditional movement goes mainstream, embracing many of the trappings of the graduation season.

U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity

By MICHAEL HOINSKI

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment at the McDonald Observatory, part of the University of Texas, could have a bearing on finally formulating why gravity exists.

Difficult to Place, Students May Be Relocated Again

By TREY BUNDY

The San Francisco Unified School District plans to end its partnership with the Erikson School, which teaches children with severe behavioral problems.