For a Standout College Essay, Applicants Fill Their Summers
By JENNY ANDERSON
A group of New York City high school students recreated Leonardo da Vinci's “Last Supper” in Florence. The group spent a month in Italy this summer studying the Renaissance.
Students preparing to apply to college are increasingly tailoring their summer plans with the goal of creating a better personal statement.
Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth
By MICHAEL BARBARO and FERNANDA SANTOS
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration is planning far-reaching measures to help young black and Latino men, and the mayor himself will finance a quarter of it.
Apollo Group to Buy Maker of Math Courses
By TRIP GABRIEL
Hoping to retain more students, the company behind the profit-making University of Phoenix is paying $75 million for Carnegie Learning, which offers computer-based math instruction.
Review Aims to Avert Cheating on State Tests
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The effort is a response to reports of cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta, Philadelphia and other cities.
ON EDUCATION
Pa. Joins States Facing a School Cheating Scandal
By MICHAEL WINERIP
A large data file contains evidence that suggests cheating on state exams at 89 Pennsylvania schools.
Children’s Publisher Backing Off Its Corporate Ties
By TAMAR LEWIN
Some of the publisher’s most controversial programs have been withdrawn, but a review board will now monitor the content.
ASKED AND ANSWERED
A Progress Report on Geography
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
The Department of Education recently released the results of its national geography survey, and there were both good and bad implications.
Local Basketball Stars Shun Bay Area Colleges
By SAM LAIRD
The Bay Area has one of the best crops of young basketball recruits in years, but Northern California is losing many of them to faraway schools.
GENDER GAMES
Long Fights for Sports Equity, Even With a Law
By KATIE THOMAS
While a college or university in violation of Title IX risks losing its federal funds, that penalty has never been used, and there are no examples of cases being referred to the justice department.
Schools Turn To Fees After Drop in State Aid
By MORGAN SMITH
Texas school districts are turning to fees so that parents will make up some of the money that previously came from the state.
School Plan to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism
By REBECCA VEVEA
The new leadership at Chicago Public Schools is taking another crack at one of the district’s thorniest problems: involving parents in their children’s education.
A Sleepaway Camp Where Math Is the Main Sport
By RACHEL CROMIDAS
Educators have been brought to the campus of Bard College to teach low-income students who are gifted in mathematics concepts as varied as number theory and cryptography.
Once Nearly 100%, Teacher Tenure Rate Drops to 58% as Rules Tighten
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Under new rules, the percentage of teachers granted tenure declined from 99 percent five years ago.
Education Life
Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle
By SHARON OTTERMAN
New models for teacher preparation are thinking outside the box. Are they too far out?
The Critter People
By TAMAR LEWIN
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
By LAURA PAPPANO
Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.
The Postgraduate Population
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