http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/education/01seattle.html?ex=
While many school districts may be forced to abandon race-based assignment plans, Seattle will feel little impact from a ruling it helped prompt.July 2007
July 01, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/education/01gallaudet.html?e
Gallaudet, the nation’s only liberal arts university for the deaf, has been put on probation by its accrediting agency.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 02, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/nyregion/02nyu.html?ex=13410
New York University president John E. Sexton said he wants a planned expansion to be “a win-win situation, not a zero-sum game,” for the university and its neighbors.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/weekinreview/01rosen.html?ex
Last week’s Supreme Court decision declared that public schools can’t take explicit account of race to achieve integration, but will a colorblindness mandate succeed?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 03, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/business/03flier.html?ex=134
Children at International Schools overseas live out the raw material of a literature unique to them and to their experiences.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/education/03maine.html?ex=13
Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill Monday giving tax credits to lower the cost of student loans for those who stay in the state.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 04, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04yale.html?ex=134
Yale hopes to take a big step forward in biology after its recent purchase of the 136-acre campus of Bayer HealthCare.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/nyregion/04school.html?ex=13
The powerful Newark Teachers Union is telling as many as a dozen teachers at the troubled Newton Street School that they have to leave because they do not fit in with a plan to improve the school.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04rankings.html?ex
A proposed common Web site would provide more and better information about colleges and universities to prospective students and their parents.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04Education.html?e
She left a long career as a stage manager to become a teacher and quickly discovered that paperwork can overwhelm the act of teaching.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 06, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/education/06test.html?ex=134
Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/us/06tech.html?ex=1341374400
Kenneth R. Feinberg will oversee the distribution of the $7 million that has been donated to Virginia Tech after the April campus massacre, university officials said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/nyregion/06school.html?ex=13
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced Thursday how the city school system plans to spend $228 million in new education financing from the state.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10astro.html?ex=1341
The Harvard Observatory holds more than half a million images constituting humanity’s only record of a century’s worth of sky.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/education/10summit.html?ex=1
On the heels of a student loan scandal, some higher education officials have called a conference’s format deeply troubling.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/nyregion/10schools.html?ex=1
The New York City school system has become one of the nation’s largest summer soup kitchens.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/washington/11lobby.html?ex=1
With the House set to take up legislation that would sharply cut subsidies to student loan companies by about $19 billion, lenders are trying to appeal to Democrats.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/education/11economics.html?e
In recent months, economists have engaged in an impassioned debate over the way their specialty is taught at universities and practiced in Washington.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/education/11education.html?e
Working with children looks easy. It is not.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/books/11potter.html?ex=13418
The truth about Harry Potter and reading is not quite a straightforward success story.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/us/12brfs-VANDERBILTCH_BRF.h
Vanderbilt University announced that E. Gordon Gee, its chancellor of seven years, would leave to become president of Ohio State University in Columbus for the second time.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/washington/12loan.html?ex=13
The House voted to cut federal subsidies to student lenders and halves interest rates on federally backed loans.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/us/13children.html?ex=134197
Fewer high school students were having sex and more were using condoms in 2005, according to the latest government report on the well-being of the nation’s children.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/education/13columbia.html?ex
Columbia University announced that it would not ask the state to use eminent domain to evict residents of 132 apartments in the 17-acre area of Harlem that it wants to move into.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/nyregion/14school.html?ex=13
A handwritten journal detailed a planned terrorist attack on a Suffolk County high school with a “hit list” of specific students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/us/14dewey.html?ex=134206560
An Arizona library has forsaken the Dewey Decimal System, and is arranging books in a manner similar to the approach taken by Barnes & Noble.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/education/15integrate.html?e
Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/us/16cnd-emu.html?ex=1342238
The president of Eastern Michigan University was dismissed last night, following a scandal involving the university’s handling of the rape and murder of a student.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/us/17dismiss.html?ex=1342324
Six months after a student was raped and killed in her dormitory room, Eastern Michigan University said that it had fired three administrators.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/business/17suit.html?ex=1342
The suit, filed against the National Education Association, reflects heightened concern among retirement plan participants that excessive fees are diminishing their savings and enriching financial services firms.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17conv.html?ex=13423
Eric Mazur, a professor at Harvard, wants his students to understand concepts, not regurgitate facts.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17book.html?ex=13423
An Islamic creationist is mailing a lavishly illustrated, 800-page attack on evolutionary theory to scientists around the world.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/education/17college.html?ex=
Three New York City public school teachers and two former officials from Touro College were indicted for a “cash for grades scheme.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/education/18abstain.html?ex=
Opponents of abstinence education cite a study that found no sign that it delayed a teenager’s sexual debut.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/education/18ap.html?ex=13424
To help protect its brand, the College Board is creating a list of classes that high schools are authorized to call AP and reviewing the syllabuses for classes.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/education/18education.html?e
A university program aims to produce more black graduates in science, technology, engineering and math, fields in which black students are woefully underrepresented.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/nyregion/18schools.html?ex=1
Seeking to placate critics who want details of how the city’s schools will use an influx of new state money, Chancellor Joel I. Klein released figures yesterday that showed District 27 in Queens as the big winner, receiving more than $14 million. Much of the money — $10 million — will go toward reducing class size.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/education/18ap.html?ex=13424
To help protect its brand, the College Board is creating a list of classes that high schools are authorized to call AP and reviewing the syllabuses for classes.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/education/18abstain.html?ex=
Opponents of abstinence education cite a study that found no sign that it delayed a teenager’s sexual debut.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/us/20loan.html?ex=1342584000
A company used its role as a loan counselor to students to market its own loans, the New York attorney general’s office said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/us/20loan.html?ex=1342584000
The bill would cut taxpayer subsidies to student lenders and funnel most of the money into increasing federal grants for low- and middle-income students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22yeshiva-t.html?ex
The 12 years I spent at a yeshiva day school made me who I am. Now the school doesn’t acknowledge who I’ve become. A reflection on religion, identity and belonging.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/us/22college.html?ex=1342756
A building at Eastern Illinois University was evacuated after a postal carrier discovered a disheveled package heading for the admissions office.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/22contract.html?ex=
The low bidder for a major construction project at Westchester Community College has been accused of links to organized crime.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/us/22college.html?ex=1342756
A building at Eastern Illinois University was evacuated after a postal carrier discovered a disheveled package heading for the admissions office.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/us/22college.html?ex=1342756
A building at Eastern Illinois University was evacuated after a postal carrier discovered a disheveled package heading for the admissions office.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/22contract.html?ex=
The low bidder for a major construction project at Westchester Community College in New York has been accused of links to organized crime.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/22contract.html?ex=
The low bidder for a major construction project at Westchester Community College in New York has been accused of links to organized crime.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/business/media/23publish.htm
Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group’s agreement to acquire the United States educational business of the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier is the latest in a series of deals that have transformed educational publishing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/business/media/23publish.htm
Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group’s agreement to acquire the United States educational business of the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier is the latest in a series of deals that have transformed educational publishing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/business/media/23publish.htm
Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group’s agreement to acquire the United States educational business of the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier is the latest in a series of deals that have transformed educational publishing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/nyregion/23school.html?ex=13
Those in charge of regulating trade schools are having trouble keeping shady operators from gaming the system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/nyregion/23school.html?ex=13
Those in charge of regulating trade schools are having trouble keeping shady operators from gaming the system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/nyregion/23school.html?ex=13
Those in charge of regulating trade schools are having trouble keeping shady operators from gaming the system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22yeshiva-t.html?ex
The 12 years I spent at a yeshiva day school made me who I am. Now the school doesn’t acknowledge who I’ve become. A reflection on religion, identity and belonging.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/nyregion/24schools.html?ex=1
The arts curriculums of New York’s public schools will be judged for comprehensiveness, and potential pay bonuses for principals could be affected.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/education/24charter.html?ex=
In just seven years, Steve Barr’s Green Dot Public Schools organization has founded 10 charter high schools and has won approval to open 10 more.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/nyregion/24schools.html?ex=1
The arts curriculums of New York’s public schools will be judged for comprehensiveness, and potential pay bonuses for principals could be affected.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/nyregion/24schools.html?ex=1
The arts curriculums of New York’s public schools will be judged for comprehensiveness, and potential pay bonuses for principals could be affected.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/education/24charter.html?ex=
Steve Barr’s organization has founded 10 charter high schools and has won approval to open 10 more.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/education/24charter.html?ex=
Steve Barr’s organization has founded 10 charter high schools and has won approval to open 10 more.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25education.html?e
At the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., all 1,345 students must work 15 hours per week to pay off the entire cost of tuition — $15,900 per year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25child.html?ex=13
Almost half the nation’s school districts have significantly decreased the daily class time spent on subjects like science and history as a result of the federal No Child Left Behind law’s focus on annual tests in reading and math.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/nyregion/25school.html?ex=13
The state will continue, however, to oversee academic instruction in the Newark and Jersey City public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/washington/25loan.html?ex=13
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that bars student lenders from giving gifts, trips or other perks to college officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25professor.html?ex=13430
The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill, whose remarks about the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks led to a national debate on free speech.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25brfs-grades.html
Nearly three dozen students and former students have been charged in what authorities called a grades-for-cash scheme at a California community college.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/nyregion/25school.html?ex=13
The state will continue, however, to oversee academic instruction in the Newark and Jersey City public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/nyregion/25school.html?ex=13
The state will continue, however, to oversee academic instruction in the Newark and Jersey City public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25education.html?e
At the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., all 1,345 students must work 15 hours per week to pay off the entire cost of tuition — $15,900 per year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25education.html?e
At the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., all 1,345 students must work 15 hours per week to pay off the entire cost of tuition — $15,900 per year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25child.html?ex=13
Almost half the nation’s school districts have significantly decreased the daily class time spent on subjects like science and history as a result of the federal No Child Left Behind law’s focus on annual tests in reading and math.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25child.html?ex=13
Almost half the nation’s school districts have significantly decreased the daily class time spent on subjects like science and history as a result of the federal No Child Left Behind law’s focus on annual tests in reading and math.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25brfs-grades.html
Nearly three dozen students and former students have been charged in what authorities called a grades-for-cash scheme at a California community college.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/25brfs-grades.html
Nearly three dozen students and former students have been charged in what authorities called a grades-for-cash scheme at a California community college.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25professor.html?ex=13430
The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill, whose remarks about the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks led to a national debate on free speech.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25professor.html?ex=13430
The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill, whose remarks about the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks led to a national debate on free speech.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/washington/25loan.html?ex=13
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that bars student lenders from giving gifts, trips or other perks to college officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/washington/25loan.html?ex=13
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that bars student lenders from giving gifts, trips or other perks to college officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
July 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/education/26cnd-coach.html?e
After several of his former players were murdered, Todd Walker decided to start teaching the importance of staying alive and out of trouble.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/education/26coach.html?ex=13
Todd Walker imparts the importance of staying away from violence by taking his young athletes to graveyards and mortuaries.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/nyregion/26poor.html?ex=1343
There will hardly be any summer break for 30 high-achieving and low-income students in New Jersey who are participating in a new program aimed at eventually getting them into the nation’s best colleges.Posted by Brooklyn