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GRADING THE DIGITAL SCHOOL

In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

By MATT RICHTEL 12:26 AM ET
Students using an interactive whiteboard, part of an ambitious technology plan in the Kyrene School District in Arizona.
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Students using an interactive whiteboard, part of an ambitious technology plan in the Kyrene School District in Arizona.
Schools are embracing digital learning, but evidence is scarce that the expensive technology is improving educational outcomes.
AFTER CURFEW

Students Find Ways to Thwart Facebook Bans

By JENNIFER CONLIN
Web sites show students how to get around schools’ site-blocking software.

Teachers Lament Loss of School-Supply Funds

By JESSICA CAMPBELL
The program allowed teachers to be reimbursed for up to $110 for purchases for their classrooms.

Interim Dean of Columbia College Is Named in Aftermath of Criticism

By SARAH MASLIN NIR
The appointment came after criticism in the wake of the recent resignations of two important administrators.
ON A MISSION Shira Collado, top right, spoke to Aichetu Traore, a sixth grader, and her mother, Kadija Traore, at their home.

Before the First School Bell, Teachers in Bronx Make House Calls

By FERNANDA SANTOS
A month before school started, a group of teachers from a South Bronx school canvassed poor immigrant neighborhoods to meet students and their families on their own turf.
Professor Stephen Kinzey

California Professor Leads a Methamphetamine Ring, the Police Say

By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY and JENNIFER MEDINA
A professor of kinesiology at California State University, San Bernardino, is suspected of supplying methamphetamine to dealers.
Andie Alexander, 13, of Houston, displayed the brightly colored leggings that some of her teachers criticized.

A Little Give in the Dress Code

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Schools are incorporating more stylish clothes into their dress codes, and retailers have been happily catering to the changes.
Lee Bollinger

At Columbia, Faith of Some in President Is Shaken

By ALAN SCHWARZ
The recent resignations of two high-ranking black administrators have tested some faculty members’ confidence in Lee C. Bollinger.
Sarah Weinstein, a Boston University graduate, manages a bar and volunteers.

Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out

By JENNIFER 8. LEE
The Limbo Generation, college graduates who entered the job market after the economic downturn, take dead-end jobs while waiting to start their real careers. And waiting. And waiting.
Cindy Herrick spoke on harassment, intimidation and bullying, at Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, N.J., this month.

Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on Spot

By WINNIE HU
The Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, considered the toughest legislation against bullying in the nation, was propelled by public outcry over the suicide of a Rutgers University freshman last year.
John Covington recently resigned as superintendent of the Kansas City Board of Education.

Kansas City School District Loses Leader Who Began Turnaround Effort

By A. G. SULZBERGER
Superintendent John Covington abruptly resigned after accepting a job to help improve Michigan’s failing schools.

Subsidiary of News Corp. Loses Deal With State

By SHARON OTTERMAN
The New York State comptroller’s office has rejected a $27 million deal with Wireless Generation, as fallout widens against News Corporation due to a phone hacking scandal in Britain.
PERSONAL HEALTH

Smart Choices to Ensure Safety at Lunch

By JANE E. BRODY
In the morning rush for school, it is easy for parents to overlook the dangers that can come with a packed lunch.
ON EDUCATION
Steven Brill, in his Manhattan office last week, weighs in on the education reform movement.

Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them

By MICHAEL WINERIP
Steven Brill’s new book, “Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools,” takes a largely critical eye toward teachers unions.

Weaving a Web of Knowledge

The digital route to a college degree has become popular as people have sought a cheaper, faster, more flexible method.

Mariah Long, who got a degree online from Western Governors University while in Germany, went to graduation in Utah.

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree

By TAMAR LEWIN
Some recent entrants into the field of online education offer grounds for both concern and hope.
WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
The nonprofit Western Governors University graduated its first nursing class in June. It has 25,000 students, most over 25 and with previous college credit.

Weekly Prompts From a Mentor

By TAMAR LEWIN
Western Governors University was started by the governors of 19 Western states who bemoaned the high cost of higher education.
UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE
Students using a University of the People computer center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one of three set up after the earthquake there in early 2010.

Open Courses, Nearly Free

By TAMAR LEWIN
The University of the People relies on volunteer professors to teach 10-week online courses to poor students in 100 countries around the world.
LEARNING COUNTS
Credits from Learning Counts put Kim Bove closer to her B.A.

Receiving Credit for Job Experience

Learning Counts was started in January to help older students prepare portfolios that show what they have learned from work and life experiences.
STRAIGHTERLINE

A Way to Speed the Pace

By TAMAR LEWIN
Straighterline is a company, not a school, offering introductory math, business, science and writing classes found at most community colleges and universities, for a fraction of the price.

A Short-Lived Test, Even With Coaching

By TAMAR LEWIN
Signing up for some online classes, a reporter discovers she has forgotten a lot about math. Also, that studying in front of a computer is lonely.
Education Life
TRAINING DAYS A video camera captures Tayo Adeeko teaching her third graders, for later critique.

Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle

By SHARON OTTERMAN
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

The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s

By LAURA PAPPANO
Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.
EDUCATION LIFE
Beyond the B.A.
With more Americans than ever in grad school, a special issue devoted to all things postgraduate.
ROOM FOR DEBATE
How Can U.S. Scholars Resist China’s Control?
When China has banned scholars, U.S. universities haven't fought back. Should they be doing more do defend academic freedom?
From the Book Review
ESSAY

Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?

By ROBERT LIPSYTE
Boys’ aversion to reading, let alone to novels, has been worsening for years, prompting the question — what turns boys into readers?

‘Class Warfare ’

By STEVEN BRILL
Reviewed by SARA MOSLE
In “Class Warfare,” Steven Brill brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform and mounts a zealous case against America’s teachers’ unions.
From Opinion
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

When Schools Depend on Handouts

By MICHAEL A. REBELL and JESSICA R. WOLFF
Most state constitutions guarantee all students a sound, basic public education, rights that cannot be put on hold, even in tough times.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

How to Fix Our Math Education

By SOL GARFUNKEL and DAVID MUMFORD
The current curriculum is not a good way to prepare a vast majority of high school students for life.
Multimedia
Interactive
New York School Test Scores
A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.
Multimedia
Interactive
Timeline: Dennis M. Walcott
The life and career of the new chancellor for New York City schools.

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