EDUCATION NEWS

Setting the Tone for New Way to Learn
Mobile phones could soon become an unlikely teacher's ally thanks to an Edinburgh art tutor's brainwave.

Stepping Out to End the School Run
An inexorable rise in road congestion, the resulting increase in pollution and an alarming escalation of childhood obesity and lack of fitness would all be reduced if parents abandoned the school run, research shows.
Health experts, politicians and motoring organizations have joined forces to force home the message at the the launch of International Walk to School Week.

Survey Finds Girls Need a Better Breakfast Than Boys
Girls need a more satisfying breakfast than boys to set them up for the day and ensure they can concentrate properly in the classroom, according to new research.

Schools Will Have to Open the Gates to Parental Input

Testing to Create Dropouts? Playing the numbers game for kid's futures.

Schoolkids Go Begging as Military Gets Billions "You mean we can spend $4 billion a month to keep the military in Iraq, but we can't afford crayons for first-graders?" - John S. Carter

Illinois Enacts Plan to Freeze Tuition Rates at Its Colleges A new law in Illinois will freeze tuition for public university students at the level they pay when they enter as freshmen.

Suit Says School Ordered Girls Tested for Diseases After Party Officials at a New York school ordered female students, who cut classes to attend a party, to undergo medical tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Healthier Diet Linked to Academic Ability Young women who do better at school eat a much healthier diet than those who flunk exams, according to new research.

Assemblyman's Study Finds Flaws in Primary Health Education More than 60 percent of New York school districts violate state or city rules regulating the way students learn about drug abuse, AIDS and sex education, the study found.

Despite Victory Won by Mayor, School Control Is Not Assured Last year, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg won control of the New York City schoold system. But lawmakers are now furious over his plans to eliminate local school districts.

Mass Layoffs Threatened for Teachers in California With the state's budget problems, many districts fear they cannot afford to pay those already in the classroom.

Txt Msg Spells Trouble for Teachers Mobile phones are fueling a dramatic rise in angry confrontations between teachers and parents whose children are using them to call home and claim they have been singled out for unfair treatment, teaching unions have claimed.

A Plan to Punish Teams for Poor Grades Myles Brand, a new chief executive of the N.C.A.A., wants the power to reward and punish college teams based on the academic performances of their players. - Does anyone doubt that this will lead to more cheating on tests, and the buying of term papers by jocks?

Girl's Schools Teach Dollars and Cents A growing number of all-girls schools nationwide have declared financial literacy an educational priority.

Is History a Thing of the Past in School? Scotland's pupils are leaving school without a basic grasp of Scottish history, university lecturers and teachers claim.

Online Library Wants It All, Every Book The directors of the new Alexandria Library have begun an ambitious effort to make virtually all of the world's books available at a mouse click.

School for Musicians Performs Best of All An school for gifted young musicians has been named the top-performing independent school in a guide to the private sector published by The Scotsman.

Where the Hall Monitor is a Webcam Propelled by Columbine and 9/11, officials are considering a broad range of measures to improve school security, everything from sophisticated video surveillance to biometric identity cards.

Gates Foundation Providing $31 Million for Small Schools "...to nonprofit groups to start small, alternative high schools for 36,000 students."

Parents Reject Truancy Laws "...police, school staff and local education officers are to be given special powers to issue fixed penalty notices to parents who 'condone or ignore' their children's failure to attend school."

College-Entrance Preferences for the Well Connected Draw Ire The favoritism that admissions offices show to legacies, as the children of alumni are called, and those with deep pockets is coming under fire.

Violence Against Teachers Up 700%!

School Web Sites Helping Parents Stay in the Loop Grades, Homework Tracked Online

FBI Taps Campus Police in Anti-Terror Operations - Student, Faculty Groups Fear a Return of Spying Abuses Against Activists, Foreign Nationals "Faculty leaders and administrators argue that U.S. colleges and universities are unique places devoted to the exchange of ideas, and even the hint of surveillance by government authorities taints that environment."

U.S. Schools Resegregating, Study Says "The average white student in America attends a school where 80 percent of their classmates are also white."

Bush to Propose Funds for Black, Hispanic Education "ASked about the timing of the announcement and whether it was in response to criticism of the president's legal challenge to the University of Michigan's policy of using racial preferences in admissions, a White House spokesman declined direct comment."

Congress Creates Fake School in Sting "...an undercover sting operation by congressional investigators, who wanted to learn how closely education officials monitored aid applications from foreign schools."

Data Delayed on Unfit Teachers "We're not messing around... and we have to be sure the data is accurate or it would be unfair to teachers." "The truth is most parents still don't know they are supposed to get this information so they are not out looking for it."

Schools' Internet Subsidies Are Called Fraud-Riddled

School Detention 'Breaches Human Rights'

Court Oversight of W. Va. Schools Ends

States Worry New (No Child Left Behind) Law Sets Schools Up to Fail

5 School Holidays Could be Optional

The Corporate Feudalist Future of Higher Education: Human Capital Contracts

An Online Course Gets Students Thinking About Drinking

College Seniors No More Knowledgeable Than 1950's High School Grads

Critics Attack Suspension of 33 Philadelphia Kindergartners

Law Schools Urge Graduates to Start Small and Think Local

Ala. Paper to Form Journalism Institute

KIPP Schools

California's Public University Systems Hike Fees

Home-Schoolers to Create Their Own Honor Society

Special Education Confidential: How Schools Use "Learning Disability" to Cover Up Their Failures

Effects of Funding Incentives on Special Education

Plan to Lure Top Principals to Bad Schools

Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Theory of Evolution

U.S., State OK'd Tainted Food That Sickened Pupils

Pupils Caught Betting at School

Expulsion for Bullet Spurs Lawsuit

Real Options for School Choice

Poor Rural Schools Try to Meet New Federal Rules

Why Are Black Students Lagging?

Florida Takes Lead on School Vouchers

Who Says a Teacher's Pay is Low?

New Federal Rule Tightens Demands on Failing Schools

Public School Confidential

China's Super Kids

Under Mayor, NYC School Cuts Total $215 Million

Lead Levels in Schools' Water Prompt Warnings and Shut-Offs

G.O.P. Foresees Expansion of Party Themes on Education

No Child Unrecruited

Parents Poised to Sue Over School Standards

The Pain and Pride of Community College

Schools to be Allowed to Serve Irradiated Meat

Ark. Students Sue for Right to Vote

Students Sue Testing Company

Embarrassing Moments in American Textbook History

Banned From Schools

Endangered Minds

Ohio Plan Would Teach Evolution Debate

Law Overhauling School Standards Seen as Skirted

Health Food Fails Test at School in Berkeley

Teachers: Tell Your Students to Take a Hike

Witches School Casts Spell on Alps

Tuition Listed as 'Taco Bell'

Straw Calls for Pocket-Size EU Constitution

Penn State Hosts Insect Fair

To Find Teachers, Raise Hand High, and Yell, 'Me!'

Hellish Studies at San Mateo

Low-Income Parents Prefer 'Comprehensive' Sex Ed for Kids

NEA Called 'School Yard Bullies' in America's Political System

Students' Jail Tour Goes Wrong, Suspensions Follow Strip-Searches

D.C. Students Underwent Strip-Search on Jail Tour

Who Is and Who Isn't Qualified to Teach?

Class Struggle: How Much Parental Help?

Schools to Start Phonics Initiative

U.S. Students Head to Canada Schools

CA to Set Limits on Heavy Textbooks

Politicians Thwart College Education Behind Bars

Parents Outraged by Sexual Assault in Elementry School

School Offers Morning-After Pill to 11-Year-Olds

Unsuppressed History

Jury: Anarchy Club OK!

Student, Principal Spar Over Anarchy Club, Clothing

Academia Becomes Target for New Security Laws

Fire-Drill Test Has Students Stay Put

Teacher Shortages Vanish When the Price is Right

Tests Are Not Just for Kids

If Test Scores of Students Swell, So May Superintendent's Wallets

Accept or Reject? What It's About at One University

School Bans Dreadlocked Student

North Dakota Fights Over One-Room Schools

Is That a Caveat on Your Diploma?

The 'Rithmatic of Education Spending

The Origins of School

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