http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01loans.html?ex=133567200
Last year, Pratt Institute found that a deal it had with a student loan company was not so good for its student borrowers.May 2007
May 01, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/nyregion/01parents.html?ex=1
New York City’s Department of Education has begun a $2 million citywide survey concerning attitudes about the public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/sports/ncaafootball/01preps.
In an effort to deter diploma mills, the N.C.A.A. will limit high school students to one core course that would count toward college eligibility after a student’s four-year high school graduation date.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01duke.html?ex=1335672000
Thirty-four first-year graduate students cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 02, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02spirituality.htm
Across the country chaplains, professors and administrators say students are drawn to religion and spirituality with more fervor than at any time they can remember.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/us/02kent.html?ex=1335758400
If confirmed as authentic, the recording could solve the central mystery of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/washington/02loan.html?ex=13
The request by the lawmaker carries his inquiries into education policy-making beyond the Education Department itself and into the Bush White House.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02loans.html?ex=13
There are many options for students loans, and those who choose smartly are at an enormous advantage.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02cheat.html?ex=13
Fifteen cadets have been expelled and three others have resigned in a cheating scandal at the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, an Air Force official said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02brfs-NEWPRESIDEN
Morehouse College has selected Robert M. Franklin Jr., a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, as its 10th president.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02education.html?e
After the Virginia Tech killings, creative writing teachers think about how to react to violence in their students’ work.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 03, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/education/03loan.html?ex=133
The department restricted access last month to the database out of concern that student lenders or other marketers were improperly obtaining private information.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/education/03mit.html?ex=1335
Marilee Jones, the former admissions dean at M.I.T. who resigned after admitting she fabricated her academic credentials, was awarded a degree in biology in 1973 from the College of Saint Rose in Albany.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/sports/ncaabasketball/03ncaa
The N.C.A.A. released its third installment of academic progress data Wednesday, penalizing few colleges but projecting many more penalties next year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 04, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/education/04laptop.html?ex=1
Officials saw little impact on student achievement because of the laptop programs.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/nyregion/04school.html?ex=13
Plans to open a public school dedicated to the study of the Arabic culture have become a test of tolerance.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 05, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/05orleans.html?ex=1336017
Paul G. Vallas will run a school district where buildings are ruined, teachers are missing and thousands of students might return suddenly.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/05grades.html?ex=13360176
Authorities at a Bay Area college said that at least 74 students might have paid someone to change lower grades to higher ones.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/washington/05loans.html?ex=1
The inspector general will investigate potential conflicts of interest that may have led to lax oversight of the student loan industry.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/nyregion/05taxes.html?ex=133
School districts plan $691 million in new taxes just weeks after the Legislature set aside $900 million in new aid.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/06
Despite record increases in state aid for next school year, most districts on Long Island and in other New York City suburbs have also proposed property tax increases well over the inflation rate.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06speller.html?ex=1336104
Kunal Sah hopes that winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee will help bring his parents back from India.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 06, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/06
Students at Amistad Academy in New Haven know the dean as the disciplinarian, but also, in his words, as “the person who is building them back up.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06bus.html?ex=1336104000&
Congress has yet to deliver on the $1 billion over five years it promised in 2005 to help states clean up diesel fleets, including school buses.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/education/06montana.html?ex=
The University of Montana attracts an international array of biologists who come to study the wildlife that is right outside their door.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06firearms.html?ex=133610
Top liberal law professors, embracing an individual right to own guns, have helped to reshape the debate over gun rights in the U.S.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 07, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/nyregion/07heritage.html?ex=
In growing numbers, the children and grandchildren of immigrants are trying to learn the languages of their forebears.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 1 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/washington/07loans.html?ex=1
Lawmakers say the Bush administration resisted calls to improve oversight of the student loan industry.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 08, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/us/08deseg.html?ex=133627680
Fifty years after an epic desegregation struggle, a school district in Little Rock, Ark., is still riven by racial conflict.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 09, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/education/09education.html?e
The transformation of a large Bronx high school into small schools has meant the end of adequate English as a Second Language classes for hundreds of students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09loans.html?ex=133636320
The resignation of the official was made public two days before Education Secretary is to testify before Congress.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/education/10harvard.html?ex=
Nine prominent professors are leading an effort to rethink the culture of undergraduate teaching and learning at Harvard.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/washington/10loans.html?ex=1
The House of Representatives showed bipartisan resolve to clean up the $85 billion student loan industry.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/nyregion/10school.html?ex=13
A public school devoted to the study of Arabic language and culture will be put in a building in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/nyregion/10kearny.html?ex=13
The Kearny Board of Education in New Jersey and the parents of a Kearny High School student settled their dispute about a teacher who proselytized in class.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/washington/11spellings.html?
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings argued at a House hearing that she lacked legal authority to clamp down on many abuses in the student loan industry.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/education/11purdue.html?ex=1
Purdue University has begun a new inquiry into a professor who claims to have generated nuclear fusion in a desktop experiment.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/washington/12bush.html?ex=13
The news that President Bush would give the commencement address at St. Vincent College was not universally welcomed.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/nyregion/12rutgers.html?ex=1
Christa Olandria will not be graduating with her classmates next week after being arrested for burglary along with another Rutgers senior.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/education/12middle.html?ex=1
Briarcliff Middle School has emerged as a nationally recognized middle school that gets things right.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13
Timothy Cipriano, the “Local Food Dude,” is teaching Connecticut student to grow and prepare their meals.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/us/15scare.html?ex=133688160
Staff were suspended on Monday over a prank in which sixth graders on a trip were told that a gunman was prowling nearby.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/us/15loans.html?ex=133688160
The University of Texas has fired the director of financial aid at its Austin campus for improper conduct.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/us/15hawaii.html?ex=13368816
A settlement avoided the possibility of a decision by the United States Supreme Court on the status of Native Hawaiians.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/education/15cnd-report.html?
Only 26 percent of high school students who take the core courses are well prepared for college, the study says.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16report.html?ex=1
Only a quarter of high school students who take the core courses are well prepared for college, the study says.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16admissions.html?
Second-tier colleges have seen their cachet climb because of the heated competition at the top.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/nyregion/16pace.html?ex=1336
David A. Caputo, a political scientist, became president of Pace seven years ago, and has faced criticism for his management, especially in the last year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16education.html?e
The George Jackson Academy in the East Village cultivates a culture where boys consider the feelings of their classmates, a sensitivity American culture has too often demanded only of girls.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16cnd-history.html
Test scores improved, officials reported, but many high school seniors still showed poor command of basic facts.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17brfs-100MILLIONBU_BRF.h
Boone Pickens, the billionaire oilman, said his foundation would donate $100 million to two schools, but with serious conditions attached.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17penn.html?ex=1337054400
Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly rejected a plan to reduce property taxes in return for higher local income taxes as a way of financing school districts, officials said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/education/17history.html?ex=
More than half of high school seniors still showed poor command of basic facts like the effect of the cotton gin on the slave economy or the causes of the Korean War.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/nyregion/18principals.html?e
Chancellor Joel I. Klein is challenging New York City’s public school principals to free themselves as much as possible from outside oversight under a new reorganization.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/nyregion/18rutgers.html?ex=1
Some see New Jersey as entitled to a bit of glory that has come to the university.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/education/18campus.html?ex=1
About a half-dozen universities are giving alumni and faculty the opportunity to have their ashes maintained on campus.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/education/19board.html?ex=13
A member of the Kansas school board who supported its efforts against teaching evolution is running unopposed for the National Association of State Boards of Education.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/world/africa/20senegal.html?
Far from being a repository of the continent’s hopes for the future, Africa’s decrepit universities have become hotbeds of discontent.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/nyregion/21marymount.html?ex
Marymount College is shutting down after recognizing its final graduates, as enrollment declines nationwide at small women’s colleges.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/washington/22scotus.html?ex=
A Supreme Court decision has given parents of children with disabilities the right to go to court without a lawyer to challenge their public school district.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/education/22cnd-schools.html
The number of New York state eighth graders reading on grade level climbed impressively this year, tests indicate.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/education/23education.html?e
After a sweep yields 49 arrests in one Minnesota community, students head to class fearful their parents will be targeted next by government agents.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/education/23face.html?ex=133
James Wright, the president of Dartmouth, started a program to provide individualized college counseling to seriously injured veterans.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/us/23video.html?ex=133757280
A judge has upheld the 40-day suspension a student received because of a video of his teacher which was posted on YouTube.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/education/23schools.html?ex=
The number of eighth graders reading on grade level climbed impressively this year, tests indicate.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/nyregion/23yonkers.html?ex=1
In some individual Yonkers schools, the decline was in the double digits.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/education/24educ.html?ex=133
The schools, created in the 1960s, have been marked by low test scores, poor attendance and inadequate facilities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/education/24cnd-suny.html?ex
The State University of New York has nominated John B. Clark to be the interim chancellor of its 64-campus system starting June 1. John R. Ryan, the current chancellor, announced in March that he would leave at the end of this month to head a small nonprofit organization in North Carolina.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/fashion/27gossip.html?ex=133
What happens when her weekly reader is People?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27
After a spate of bad news in recent years, there was finally good news for the school district of Roosevelt in the release of scores from state reading tests taken in Grades 3 through 8 this spring.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27
Schools across New York State posted reversals in the proportion of eighth-grade students meeting standards. Across Westchester, the proportion improved in 44 out of 54 middle schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/education/27grad.html?ex=133
Wanting to maintain a role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen elite schools have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/us/28maine.html?ex=133800480
A scholarship at the University of Maine pays for tuition, fees, room and board for any student who can prove membership in a state or federally recognized tribe.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 30, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/nyregion/30commission.html?e
Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants the panel to recommend how to overhaul higher education in New York.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/education/30census.html?ex=1
New York again leads all other states in school spending per pupil, according to the latest census figures.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/nyregion/30education.html?ex
Neil Bush, brother of the President of the United States, is behind a teaching method that is intended to bypass textbooks.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/education/30brfs-AGREEINGTOC
Wells Fargo, one of the largest companies in the student loan business, has agreed to follow a code of conduct governing relationships between lenders and universities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/nyregion/30yale.html?ex=1338
Officials say the man used the Yale name to persuade illegal Irish immigrants that they were paying him to ensure they would legally be in the United States.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 31, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/europe/31britain.html?
The main union representing 120,000 British college teachers voted Wednesday to endorse a Palestinian trades’ union call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/europe/31britain.html?
The main union representing 120,000 British college teachers voted Wednesday to endorse a Palestinian trades’ union call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/education/31schools.html?ex=
The announcement of a battery of new standardized tests for students rekindled the debate over whether such testing is emphasized too much.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/education/31schools.html?ex=
The announcement of a battery of new standardized tests for students rekindled the debate over whether such testing is emphasized too much.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)