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sábado, 23 de julio de 2011

Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle

By SHARON OTTERMAN

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

TRAINING DAYS A video camera captures Tayo Adeeko teaching her third graders, for later critique.

New models for teacher preparation are thinking outside the box. Are they too far out?

Doctoral students at the American Museum of Natural History include Edward Stanley (with lizards), Dawn Roje (with flatfish) and Phil Barden (with ants, collected by sucking on tube).

The Critter People

By TAMAR LEWIN

Dinosaur eggs, iguanas and ooh, look, a grad student. Inside the new school at the Natural History Museum

Video: Every Day at the Museum

The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s

By LAURA PAPPANO

Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.

For-Profit College Company Settles Whistle-Blower Suit

By TAMAR LEWIN

Kaplan Inc., which agreed Friday to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit for $1.6 million, has come under federal scrutiny over recruiting practices and students’ loan default rates.

Judge Rules Against Union on City Plan to Close Schools

By SHARON OTTERMAN

New York City may proceed with plans to close 22 schools for poor performance and place 15 charter schools in the buildings of traditional schools.

Document: Michael Mulgrew vs. N.Y.C. Department of Education

Bronx Charter School Disciplined Over Admissions Methods

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS

Academic Leadership Charter School is the first New York City charter disciplined for violating admissions rules, which require purely random selection.

Training of Teachers Is Flawed, Study Says

By TAMAR LEWIN

The National Council on Teacher Quality is drawing criticism over its plans to publish its rankings of schools of education.

FINDINGS

LIVE AND LEARN A bad fall may mean a child is less likely to have a fear of heights later in life.

Can a Playground Be Too Safe?

By JOHN TIERNEY

Efforts to regulate playground equipment to prevent injuries may stunt emotional development, a new study suggests.

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School Discipline Study Raises Fresh Questions

By ALAN SCHWARZ

A Texas study tracked nearly a million students from seventh grade into high school.

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New Approach Proposed for Science Curriculums

By KENNETH CHANG

A new approach for improving American science education includes focusing on core ideas and problem-solving.

Aaron Swartz, who downloaded 4.8 millions files from JSTOR, has fought against keeping scholarly material behind pay walls.

Open-Access Advocate Is Arrested for Huge Download

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Harvard researcher and Internet folk hero Aaron Swartz has been arrested for allegedly hacking into networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to download articles.

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Geography Report Card Finds Students Lagging

By WINNIE HU

Even as schools aim to better prepare students for a global work force, fewer than one in three American students are proficient in geography.

CITY ROOM

Bloomberg Pledges Money and Land for Engineering School

By PATRICK MCGEEHAN

Signaling how serious he is about developing a high-tech university campus in New York City, the mayor said the city would provide up to $100 million and a site for a new school of engineering and applied sciences.

AWARDS From left, Shree Bose, Naomi Shah and Lauren Hodge took first prize in their age groups out of 15 finalists at the Google Science Fair.

First-Place Sweep by American Girls at First Google Science Fair

By KENNETH CHANG

A 17-year-old from Fort Worth won the $50,000 grand prize at Google’s science fair last week.

Schools Dropping 413 From Staff

By WINNIE HU

The District of Columbia public schools has sent termination notices to 413 teachers and other school employees under an evaluation system that has become a national model.

Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson.

Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs

By WINNIE HU

Charters, normally thought of as a way to help poor areas, are being proposed in places that have good schools.

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Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!

By DAVID SEGAL

Despite fewer high-paying jobs, students continue to pour into law school. And the schools keep charging higher tuition and admitting more students.

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Deutsche Bank put up 12 million euros to finance a research institute that applied advanced mathematical techniques to the world of finance, but the agreement was to be secret.

Cash Tempts the Ivory Tower’s Guardians

By D. D. GUTTENPLAN

Two German universities secretly gave Deutsche Bank a big say at a research institute, raising eyebrows.

Surge in Number of Indian Students Heading to Canadian Colleges

School Officials and Union Agree on Pilot Program for Teacher Evaluations

By SHARON OTTERMAN

Teachers in 33 schools will be rated as either ineffective, developing, effective or highly effective, rather than simply satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

California to Require Gay History in Schools

By IAN LOVETT

California will become the first state to require public schools to include the works of gays and lesbians in social science instruction and in textbooks.