martes, 26 de julio de 2011

Education


California: Half of ‘Dream’ Act Signed

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Monday legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to receive privately financed scholarships for state universities.
ON EDUCATION
Mary Otero, right, who worried that enrolling her daughter, Aaliyah, 11, in a low-performing middle school would adversely affect her future.  

As Best Schools Compete for Best Performers, Students May Be Left Behind

Parents are supposed to rank their choices for the district lottery when it comes to selecting middle schools for their children, but the guidebook is vague about what each school is looking for.
TRAINING DAYS A video camera captures Tayo Adeeko teaching her third graders, for later critique.

Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle

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

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

The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s

Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.
James Murdoch testified before a Parliamentary panel last week in London. Joel I. Klein, seated behind him, has become one of Rupert Murdoch's closest and most visible advisers throughout the News Corporation's crisis related to the phone hacking scandal.

Ex-Schools Chief Emerges as Unlikely Murdoch Ally

Joel I. Klein, who joined the News Corporation this year and had opposed a probe into hacking, is now leading it.

Change in Rating Formula Creates Anxiety in Schools

The annual accountability ratings for Texas’ school districts are coming out soon, but a change in the ratings formula will surely cause grief in numerous districts.

For-Profit College Company Settles Whistle-Blower Suit

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

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.

Bronx Charter School Disciplined Over Admissions Methods

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

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?

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

School Discipline Study Raises Fresh Questions

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

New Approach Proposed for Science Curriculums

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

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.

Geography Report Card Finds Students Lagging

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

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

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

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

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

Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!

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

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

School Officials and Union Agree on Pilot Program for Teacher Evaluations

Teachers in 33 schools will be rated as either ineffective, developing, effective or highly effective, rather than simply satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
EDUCATION LIFE
Beyond the B.A.
With more Americans than ever in grad school, a special issue devoted to all things postgraduate.
From Opinion
ROOM FOR DEBATE

The Case Against Law School

Should the standard three-year law school model, followed by passage of the bar exam, be the only path to a legal career?
Sunday Magazine
FIRST

No, Seriously: No Excuses

What the education-reform movement needs to do next.
Multimedia
New York School Test Scores
A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.
Multimedia
Timeline: Dennis M. Walcott
The life and career of the new chancellor for New York City schools.

Michael Winerip

“On Education” looks beyond the discourse to the teachers, principals and students at the heart of learning.

The Motherlode

Lisa Belkin writes about homework, friends, grades, bullying, baby sitters, the work-family balance and much more.

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