http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/nyregion/05mayor.html?ex=133
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg used his weekly radio address and visits to two churches to remind parents that improving the nation’s largest school system was a complex task.March 2007
March 05, 2007
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March 06, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/nyregion/06schools.html?ex=1
City lawmakers said there was not enough evidence of success among the principals who received additional authority this academic year to justify expanding the program.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/nyregion/06words.html?ex=133
Words, words, words. They were flying inside the main New York Public Library on Monday, where 50 finalists in the National Vocabulary Championship competed for college scholarships.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 07, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/nyregion/07roosevelt.html?ex
The state comptroller said that the district has run up a budget deficit of as much as $12.3 million.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/education/07test.html?ex=133
New York State’s schoolchildren sit down this week and next for their annual mathematics tests.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/nyregion/07education.html?ex
For the third year in a row both the Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School in New York City have been shut out of the circle of 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 08, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/nyregion/08witch.html?ex=133
A former reading teacher at Hampton Bays Elementary School testified that a religious fervor culminated in her being run out of the school.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/nyregion/08suny.html?ex=1331
John R. Ryan announced Wednesday that he would step down to lead a small nonprofit organization.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/us/08school.html?ex=13310100
A 17-year-old shot his ex-girlfriend and then himself in Michigan, and a 16-year-old boy shot himself at another high school in Texas.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/washington/08loan.html?ex=13
Lawmakers want to know why the agency let a student loan company keep $278 million in subsidies that an audit found improper.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/nyregion/08vagina.html?ex=13
Three girls were suspended for a day after they uttered the word vagina during a reading of "The Vagina Monologues" at a high school forum.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 09, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/us/09wessell.html?ex=1331096
As president of Tufts University from 1953 to 1966, Nils Y. Wessell guided its transformation from a small college to a respected university.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/education/09reading.html?ex=
A federal program to teach reading pressured schools to adopt a specific approach in order to receive funding.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/us/09wessell.html?ex=1331092
As president of Tufts University from 1953 to 1966, Nils Y. Wessell guided its transformation from a small college to a respected university.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/education/09reading.html?ex=
A federal program to teach reading pressured schools to adopt a specific approach in order to receive financing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/us/10textbook.html?ex=133118
The textbook contained a depiction of the founder of the Sikh religion wearing a crown and was deemed offensive.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/us/10textbook.html?ex=133117
The textbook contained a depiction of the founder of the Sikh religion wearing a crown and was deemed offensive.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/nyregion/10preschool.html?ex
The eat-what-you-want approach is a critical part of the curriculum at the Nutritional Sciences Preschool, which is dedicated to developing toddlers’ healthy eating habits.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/nyregion/10preschool.html?ex
The eat-what-you-want approach is a critical part of the curriculum at the Nutritional Sciences Preschool, which is dedicated to developing toddlers’ healthy eating habits.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/education/11houston.html?ex=
A total of about $75,000 was overpaid because a computer program mistakenly calculated the bonuses of part-time workers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/education/11houston.html?ex=
A total of about $75,000 was overpaid because a computer program mistakenly calculated the bonuses of part-time workers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/education/12cnd-sorority.htm
Delta Zeta attracted controversy when it evicted two-thirds of its DePauw members late last year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13conv.html?ex=13314
Michael F. Summers of the University of Maryland is focused on two goals: trying to cure AIDS and trying to promote diversity in scientific fields.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13prof.html?ex=13314
At age 7, Terence Tao was taking high school math classes. At 31, he is one of the world’s top mathematicians, tackling an unusually broad range of problems.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/education/13sorority.html?ex
Delta Zeta attracted controversy when it evicted two-thirds of its DePauw members late last year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/education/14education.html?e
“The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar" is the brainchild of a man who loved to write, but hated learning the rules.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/education/14professors.html?
An assistant professor at Kean University in New Jersey resigned amid accusations of plagiarism, two decades after her father was accused of copying material for a book without credit.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/science/14science.html?ex=13
Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the top prize of a $100,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search by building a spectrograph for $300.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/business/15harvard.html?ex=1
Mohamed El-Erian, head of the $30 billion Harvard Endowment, has brought an international flair and bond expertise to the job.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/books/16anno.html?ex=1331697
Annotated editions and period guides are not necessary to grasp the drama of classic literature, but they can enrich one’s reading.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/nyregion/16teacher.html?ex=1
A jury was asked to ponder some etiquette questions in the statutory rape trial of a private school principal and teacher accused of having sex with two of her students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/nyregion/16school.html?ex=13
The continued failure in many of the city’s middle schools comes two years after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced $40 million in additional spending on the middle grades.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/education/16loans.html?ex=13
Dozens of colleges and universities are said to have accepted financial incentives from student loan companies to steer student business their way.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/education/16schools.html?ex=
An 18-month evaluation of California’s public schools has concluded that the state’s educational system is in need of sweeping reforms that could cost billions of dollars.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/18
School buses remain the safest form of transportation to and from school, according to various federal statistics, but regulation of the buses is uneven.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/education/17utah.html?ex=133
The co-sponsor of a new law said its centerpiece is a clause giving school administrators the authority to ensure that clubs do not violate “the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/education/17middle.html?ex=1
Middle school teachers often lack expertise in both subject matter and the mysteries of the adolescent mind.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/nyregion/18budget.html?ex=13
Facing a court order that said city schools were being shortchanged, Gov. Eliot Spitzer is trying to change the way the pie is divided.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/nyregion/20school.html?ex=13
Demonstrators disrupted a meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy and denounced the Bloomberg administration’s plans for further restructuring of the city’s schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/education/21education.html?e
School systems around the country are closely watching a case that will test if school districts must pay for private school for disabled children if families refuse to try public programs.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/education/21friends.html?ex=
Facebook and other social networks are having a role in how teenagers make the transition from high school to college.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/us/21charter.html?ex=1332129
The widely praised Knowledge Is Power Program announced a $100 million plan to serve about 10 percent of the city’s public school population.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/education/21lessons.html?ex=
The problem: Six children began a club to spy on another child and exclude him from the club.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/us/22pooh.html?ex=1332216000
Six students have filed a lawsuit against the school and the Napa Valley Unified School District saying the dress code is “unconstitutionally vague, overbroad and restrictive.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/world/europe/22russia.html?e
In a rare burst of defiance and activism, students have made accusations that teaching standards and living conditions have been severely eroded at one of Russia’s most prestigious universities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/us/22strike.html?ex=13322160
Faculty members at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year university system, overwhelmingly authorized a strike.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/23loans.html?ex=133230240
New York’s attorney general is accusing a student lending company of paying colleges and universities to steer student borrowers toward its loans.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/23missouri.html?ex=133230
The Missouri State Board of Education voted Thursday to take control of the troubled St. Louis public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/washington/23purdue.html?ex=
A Purdue scientist claimed in 2002 that he could generate temperatures hot enough for hydrogen atoms to meld and release energy using sound waves.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23cnd-schools.html?
The huge range in spending among the state’s 615 school districts is starkly laid out in the 2007 Comparative Spending Guide.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/25
School boards in Westchester and on Long Island face big jumps in health care costs this year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/nyregion/24spend.html?ex=133
With an average class size of nine, the tiny Sea Isle City school district on the Jersey Shore is spending three times the state average on its students, according to data released Friday.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/us/24florida..html?ex=133238
The Faculty Senate at the University of Florida rejected a proposal to award former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree this spring.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/nyregion/24drama.html?ex=133
The principal of the school in Wilton, Conn., cancelled a play written by the students about the war in Iraq because questions of political balance and context.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/25
For middle and high school students in about two dozen districts in New Jersey, random drug tests have become routine.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/weekinreview/25powell.html?e
Has community service been reduced to a useful means of public shaming and a thoughtless college pre-application procedure?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/us/25reading.html?ex=1332475
A majority of states credit President Bush’s initiative to teach reading to low-income children with improving reading instruction.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26crimson.htm
Reactions to the hiring of an ombudsman for The Harvard Crimson ranged from praise to disappointment. And then there was the online satire.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/world/asia/26india.html?ex=1
American universities, eager to expand to markets abroad, are training their sights on India.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/26center.html?ex=13325616
Keeping a preschooler in day care increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive, a study found.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/26strike.html?ex=13325616
A temporary contract extension could ward off a threatened strike at the nation’s largest four-year public university system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/26schoolday.html?ex=13325
Spurred by grim test results, districts are moving to longer days, but many teachers and parents are critical.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/science/27dark.html?ex=13326
A new independent film explores the bond between a student and graduate advisor that turned lethal.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/nyregion/28columbia.html?ex=
Columbia University has warned or censured eight students who were involved in disrupting speakers from the Minuteman Project last October.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/education/28education.html?e
Students are often accountable to state tests that determine if they are academically competent. But what about a state's accountability to keep students alive?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/nyregion/28morehouse.html?ex
The only all-male historically black college in the country is hoping to keep consolidating its gains in the search for a new president.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 29, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/education/29brfs-SORORITYSUE
A sorority accused of evicting members based on appearance and popularity sued DePauw University over its decision to expel the sorority.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/nyregion/29deaf.html?ex=1332
At the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, a hip-hop musical performed by students shows that the music can be felt as well as heard.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/education/29loans.html?ex=13
Students who call colleges with financial aid questions sometimes end up talking to employees of loan companies.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 30, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/education/30brfs-harvard.htm
Harvard College rejected 91 percent of applicants for the coming academic year, the highest rate in its history, after an expansion of financial aid encouraged more applications.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
March 31, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/nyregion/31coast.html?ex=133
A task force warned that the United States Coast Guard Academy had to restore its focus on leadership and character.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/nyregion/31rider.html?ex=133
An 18-year-old freshman at Rider University died on Friday, a day after he was admitted to a hospital after drinking an excessive amount at a fraternity party.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
