http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/education/01girls.html?ex=13
At Newton North High School, there are girls by the dozen who are high achieving, ambitious and confident (if not immune to the usual adolescent insecurities and meltdowns.)April 2007
April 01, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/nyregion/01harlem.html?ex=13
Columbia University’s proposal for a $7 billion expansion has touched off fears of another wave of gentrification.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 02, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/technology/02link.html?ex=13
A Taiwanese man is devoting himself to distributing free Chinese translations of material from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web site.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/nyregion/02budget.html?ex=13
The governor’s staff and the Legislature began to dispute the portion on education of the $120.9 billion budget.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/us/02pageant.html?ex=1333166
Not a beauty pageant but a scholarship program, Junior Miss has been all but abandoned by city and suburban girls, who favor bustier, lustier, Trump-owned contests.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 03, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/us/03loans.html?ex=133325280
Citibank and five universities will pay $5.2 million to resolve an investigation into student loan practices.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/education/03test.html?ex=133
After spending four years and $12 million on research, the Educational Testing Service has abandoned plans to introduce a revamped Graduate Record Exam this fall.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 04, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04brfs-TENTATIVEDE
Faculty members in the California State University system postponed strike plans after tentatively settling a two-year contract dispute.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/nyregion/04teacher.html?ex=1
Arnold Blume, 81, has carved out a niche at the intersection of teaching and oral history.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html?ex
It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America’s elite schools, according to college admissions officers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 05, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/nyregion/05hit.html?ex=13334
In Newark, where many children are hit by cars, a school program teaches young pedestrians to look both ways.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/nyregion/05greenwich.html?ex
Schools in the predominantly white and wealthy town have been in danger of violating state laws on racial balance since 2000.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/education/05loans.html?ex=13
Officials at three universities profited from the sale of shares held in a student loan company that each of the universities recommends to student borrowers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 06, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/us/06fisk.html?ex=1333512000
The Tennessee attorney general decided to scuttle a settlement over Fisk University’s plan to sell a Georgia O’Keeffe painting after purchase offers dwarfed earlier estimates of its worth.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/education/06loans.html?ex=13
A senior official at the Education Department sold more than $100,000 in shares in a student loan company even as he was helping oversee lenders.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 07, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/washington/07loans.html?ex=1
The moves came a day after the Education Department said it would investigate the shareholdings of the senior official, Matteo Fontana.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/08
This is the time of year when colleges send their decisions and many high school counselors console, cheer up and otherwise try to help this year’s seniors.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/education/07child.html?ex=13
Discontent in many states with the No Child Left Behind Act is threatening to undermine the effort to renew it.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 08, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/nyregion/08build.html?ex=133
The state agency financing school construction is expected to suspend work on some of the 40 projects it is developing, because it has run out of money.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 09, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/nyregion/09school.html?ex=13
School districts in diversifying suburbs are coming under pressure to address a seemingly intractable racial divide.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/education/08cnd-loan.html?ex
Three executives at Student Loan Xpress were suspended after questions were raised over stock ownership by university administrators and a federal official.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/us/10brfs-bus.html?ex=133385
Public school students got an extra day of spring break in Bay City after vandals deflated the tires on all 88 of the district’s school buses. “We will proceed in any way possible to take action against whoever is responsible,” said Superintendent Carolyn Wierda, who canceled classes because of the lack of transportation. The vandals hit over the weekend, said the district transportation director, Michael Gwizdala. “They opened the valves and took the core out,” Mr. Gwizdala said. “There were no punctures or anything.”.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/education/10schools.html?ex=
Trying to tamp down criticism of his management of the city school system, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg convened a group of “independent leaders” to stand behind him at a news conference as a show of support for his proposals.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/education/10loan.html?ex=133
The founders of Student Loan Xpress explicitly marketed to the financial aid offices of schools to corral a bigger share of the lucrative student loan business.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/nyregion/10citywide.html?ex=
Gentrification continues to sweep over East Harlem, engulfing, it seems, a neighborhood parish school — much to parents’ dismay.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/education/10barnard.html?ex=
Judith R. Shapiro, who has been the president of Barnard College since 1994, announced that she plans to step down at the end of the 2007-8 school year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/education/11loans.html?ex=13
Financial aid directors at three universities received stock in a student loan company in what may have been a violation of securities law.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/education/11education.html?e
A high school in the Bronx is said to have failed to offer the required classes in English as a second language to immigrant children.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/us/11byu.html?ex=1333944000&
Some 3,600 students and alumni of the university, one of the nation’s most conservative, have signed petitions seeking a “more appropriate” commencement speaker.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11columbia.html?ex=
The gift, from billionaire John Werner Kluge, is to be one of the largest ever to an American university.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/sports/ncaabasketball/11rutg
In an emotional news conference, Rutgers’ players spoke about their hurt and anger after Don Imus, the radio talk show host, derided them as “nappy-headed hos.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/education/11english.html?ex=
In the shifting universe of global academia, English is becoming as commonplace as creeping ivy and mortarboards.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/education/11loanscnd.html?ex
The lender has agreed to pay $2 million in order to resolve an investigation into its relationships with colleges.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/arts/12tenu.html?ex=13340304
Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein are trying to undermine each other’s careers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/education/12loans.html?ex=13
The loan company will pay $2 million into a fund to educate students about loan options in order to resolve an investigation into its relationships with colleges and universities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/nyregion/12play.html?ex=1334
Students at a Connecticut high school whose principal canceled a play they were preparing on the Iraq war are now planning to perform the work in June in New York, at the Public Theater.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12sbiz.html?ex=1334
For many students in start-up competitions, the No. 1 spot is not the ultimate prize. Having a successful business is.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/education/13educ.html?ex=133
The filings regarding the stock holdings of an Education Department official raise questions about whether the department had reviewed his ownership in a student loan company.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/education/13loans.html?ex=13
Walter C. Cathie’s roles as university official and entrepreneur have made him an example of how administrators have become cozy with lenders.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/nyregion/13roos.html?ex=1334
The state education commissioner acknowledged that he had failed to notice that the troubled Roosevelt, N.Y., school district had been spending millions it did not have.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/business/13deal.html?ex=1334
The nation’s largest lender to college students is in talks to be taken private in what could be a $20 billion deal.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/15
Karen Lawrence, the new president of Sarah Lawrence College, would like to attract more students scared off by the school’s hefty price tag.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/education/14loans.html?ex=13
A top executive of a student loan company asked Capella University to re-order its list of recommended lenders, according to documents being reviewed by Senate officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/us/politics/14wellesley.html
For her Wellesley classmates, Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/education/15direct.html?ex=1
Private banks and lenders have for years waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program that was intended to make borrowing less costly.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/washington/15sex.html?ex=133
Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/world/americas/16mexico.html
Mexico’s public health authorities have concluded that the girls at the Children’s Village School are suffering from collective hysteria.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/education/16direct.html?ex=1
Education Finance Partners has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve an investigation of its practices by the New York attorney general.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16rape.html?ex=1334376000
Some people in Georgia hoped that the decision in the case against three former Duke University lacrosse players might help free a former star high school football player.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/business/16deals.html?ex=133
The nation’s largest education lender agreed to be sold to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and two private equity firms.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17comp.html?ex=13344
Even as women approach or exceed enrollment parity in mathematics, biology and other fields, their presence in computer science is static or even shrinking.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/nyregion/17mayor.html?ex=133
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Monday announced a new program intended to make it easier for poor people to attend public community colleges while working.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/nyregion/17cuomo.html?ex=133
New legislation would bar lenders from sharing revenue from student loans with colleges, a practice that has been at the heart of recent investigations.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/nyregion/17schools.html?ex=1
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein unveiled details Monday about how schools will be organized once regional superintendent offices are abolished.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/nyregion/17trip.html?ex=1334
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said that the trip had not been approved by the Education Department and that the matter was now under investigation.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17virginia.html?ex=133446
Police officials would not identify the gunman, who killed himself, or say whether one person was behind two shootings on the sprawling campus.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18brfs-la.html?ex=1334548
A state appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that a law designed to give Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles partial authority over schools is unconstitutional.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18campus.html?ex=13345488
Universities responded to security threats even as officials said that it was almost impossible to prevent a shooting by a deranged student.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/education/18mentor.html?ex=1
A program has grown from a neighborhood project into one of the largest mentoring programs for Asian-Americans in New York City.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/education/18education.html?e
The experiences of a pair of New Yorkers illustrate the frustrations of adult illiteracy and also the relief that properly run adult education programs can bring.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18loans.html?ex=133454880
Officials were concerned that marketers were improperly obtaining private information on potential borrowers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18virginia.html?ex=133454
Investigators had been busy pursuing what appears to have been a fruitless lead after the first shooting when the second began.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/us/19loan.html?ex=1334635200
Colleges and universities are scrambling to review the practices of their financial aid offices as a result of an expanding investigation into the ties between university officials and lenders.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/business/worldbusiness/19sum
Lawrence H. Summers has been stressing economic themes that resonate in India, China, Hong Kong and Singapore but have yet to take hold in the United States.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/us/19protocol.html?ex=133463
For the most part, universities cannot tell parents about their children’s problems without the student’s consent.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/us/19gunman.html?ex=13346352
The Virginia Tech gunman’s behavior had resulted in an effort to have him committed to a mental institution.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/education/20loans.html?ex=13
Andrew M. Cuomo, New York’s attorney general, notified Drexel University Thursday that he intended to sue it for deceptive business practices.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/nyregion/20schools.html?ex=1
It will be harder for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to redistribute senior teachers more evenly across the school system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20english.html?ex=1334721
Professors and students in the English department at Virginia Tech knew of the mental turmoil of Cho Seung-Hui through his writings and images.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20manhunt.html?ex=1334721
The police in Northern California were searching on Thursday for a man who they said was planning an attack that would “make Virginia Tech look mild.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/education/21loans.html?ex=13
Nelnet, a major student loan company, offered a broad accounting of many often unpublicized relationships it has established with universities and their senior officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/education/21exit.html?ex=133
Some universities use lenders to conduct workshops required by law for many students taking out loans.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/education/23cnd-school.html?
The deal would increase pay by 23 percent over nearly seven years, with bonuses of up to $25,000 a year to top-rated principals.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/washington/24campus.html?ex=
Lawmakers began weighing ways to prevent more tragedies on college campuses in a hastily convened hearing a week after the shootings in Virginia.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/education/24loans.html?ex=13
Attorneys general around the country are stepping up their scrutiny of college lending practices in the absence of federal enforcement.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/nyregion/24principals.html?e
The four-year contract fight with the union representing New York City school principals was unusually bitter even by the standards of city labor relations.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/education/25loans.html?ex=13
Sara Martinez Tucker, the under secretary of education, worked for student lenders before she worked for the department of education.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25bush.html?ex=13
President Bush traveled to Harlem to seek common cause with the rival party, on its home turf, on his signature education initiative, “No Child Left Behind.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/nyregion/25mbrfs-rutgers.htm
Rutgers University officials said they would attempt to register the mobile phone numbers of their student and faculty so they can receive alert messages during an emergency.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/education/25education.html?e
After his first 100 days as a Congressional representative, a lawmaker paid a visit to his old high school, where he had taught geography, coached football, advised seniors and supervised the lunchroom.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/education/25face.html?ex=133
A brother’s suicide led his sister to organize a student group that evolved into a nonprofit organization devoted to awareness of mental illness.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/education/25schools.html?ex=
Eli Broad and Bill Gates are joining forces for a $60 million foray into politics in an effort to vault education high onto the agenda of the 2008 presidential race.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education