http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01education.html?e
For one teacher, the introduction to his new high school’s academic standards proved a fitting preamble to a disastrous year.August 2007
August 01, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01school.html?ex=13
Officials said that the Paterson public schools would remain under state control after a new report found continuing problems.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01gabler.html?ex=1
Norma Gabler became the public face of a crusade with her husband to rid schoolbooks of content they considered antifamily, anti-American and anti-God.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01loan.html?ex=134
Nelnet, a student loan company, agreed to pay into a fund to educate high school students about financing college, settling an inquiry into its business practices.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01face.html?ex=134
Plenty of presidents at state universities have come up with plans for growth and improvement. But few have created a strategy as rigorous or transparent as the one at the University of Kentucky.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01school.html?ex=13
Officials said that the Paterson public schools would remain under state control after a new report found continuing problems.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01school.html?ex=13
Officials said that the Paterson public schools would remain under state control after a new report found continuing problems.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01face.html?ex=134
Plenty of presidents at state universities have come up with plans for growth and improvement. But few have created a strategy as rigorous or transparent as the one at the University of Kentucky.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01face.html?ex=134
Plenty of presidents at state universities have come up with plans for growth and improvement. But few have created a strategy as rigorous or transparent as the one at the University of Kentucky.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01education.html?e
For one teacher, the introduction to his new high school’s academic standards proved a fitting preamble to a disastrous year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01education.html?e
For one teacher, the introduction to his new high school’s academic standards proved a fitting preamble to a disastrous year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01loan.html?ex=134
Nelnet, a student loan company, agreed to pay into a fund to educate high school students about financing college, settling an inquiry into its business practices.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01loan.html?ex=134
Nelnet, a student loan company, agreed to pay into a fund to educate high school students about financing college, settling an inquiry into its business practices.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01gabler.html?ex=1
Norma Gabler became the public face of a crusade with her husband to rid schoolbooks of content they considered antifamily, anti-American and anti-God.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01gabler.html?ex=1
Norma Gabler became the public face of a crusade with her husband to rid schoolbooks of content they considered antifamily, anti-American and anti-God.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 02, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02graduation.html?
Several states set a goal of graduating fewer than 60 percent of their students, according to a study.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02loans.html?ex=13
The federal Department of Education still has no system to detect and uncover misconduct by lenders and protect student borrowers, a new government report says.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/edlife/cornellwebe
Colleges across the county are engaged in a grand social experiment to fuse academic and social life. Is the party over?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/edlife/cornellwebe
Colleges across the county are engaged in a grand social experiment to fuse academic and social life. Is the party over?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02graduation.html?
Several states set a goal of graduating fewer than 60 percent of their students, according to a study.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02graduation.html?
Several states set a goal of graduating fewer than 60 percent of their students, according to a study.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02loans.html?ex=13
The department still has no system to detect misconduct by lenders and protect student borrowers, a report says.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/education/02loans.html?ex=13
The department still has no system to detect misconduct by lenders and protect student borrowers, a report says.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 03, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/29tuition.html?ex=
School officials admit they are queasy about a practice that appears to value one discipline over another.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/29tuition.html?ex=
School officials admit they are queasy about a practice that appears to value one discipline over another.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 04, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/nyregion/04rider.html?ex=134
Two Rider University officials and three fraternity members were charged in connection with the death of a freshman last March during a hazing ritual.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/nyregion/04rider.html?ex=134
Two Rider University officials and three fraternity members were charged in connection with the death of a freshman last March during a hazing ritual.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04stud.html?ex=1
In a new book, Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Project Zero — an arts-education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — argue forcefully for the benefits of art education, while still defending their 2000 thesis.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 06, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04stud.html?ex=1
In a new book, Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Project Zero — an arts-education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — argue forcefully for the benefits of art education, while still defending their 2000 thesis.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/washington/06hill.html?ex=13
Oliver W. Hill was at the forefront of the legal effort that desegregated public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/us/04brfs-sentence.html?ex=1
A 16-year-old was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the shooting death of his high school principal.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/us/04brfs-sentence.html?ex=1
A 16-year-old was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the shooting death of his high school principal.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/washington/06hill.html?ex=13
Oliver W. Hill was at the forefront of the legal effort that desegregated public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 07, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hilberg.html?ex=1344139
A Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Raul Hilberg helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long, detailed 1961 study of the massacre of European Jews.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/space/07shuttle.html
Barbara R. Morgan, a former teacher, is about to fulfill a two-decade-old dream by becoming the first “educator astronaut.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hero.html?ex=1344139200
A full scholarship has been offered to Jeremy Hernandez, a struggling former student who kicked open the back door of a tipping school bus with 50 children.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/education/07muslim.html?ex=1
As the nation’s Muslim population grows, issues of religious accommodation are becoming more common, and more complicated.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/space/07shuttle.html
Barbara R. Morgan, a former teacher, is about to fulfill a two-decade-old dream by becoming the first “educator astronaut.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hero.html?ex=1344139200
A full scholarship has been offered to Jeremy Hernandez, a struggling former student who kicked open the back door of a tipping school bus with 50 children.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/07hilberg.html?ex=1344139
A Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Raul Hilberg helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long, detailed 1961 study of the massacre of European Jews.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/education/07muslim.html?ex=1
As the nation’s Muslim population grows, issues of religious accommodation are becoming more common, and more complicated.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 08, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08education.html?e
Should cash be used to spur children to do better on reading and math tests?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08schools.html?ex=
Advocates said that the practice of serving breakfast in cafeterias failed to attract most of the children who need it.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08books.html?ex=13
A certain canon of college-assigned summer reading is emerging: books that are readable, short, engaging, cheap.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/us/08brfs-UNIVERSITYRE_BRF.h
Eastern Michigan University said it would establish a warning system in its response to a report that found it had covered up the rape and killing of a student.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08cnd-naep.html?ex
The nation’s high school seniors received better scores than were expected on the first nationwide economics test.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 09, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/education/09report.html?ex=1
The nation’s high school seniors performed significantly better on the first nationwide economics test than they did on other recent national exams in history and science.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/science/space/09shuttle.html
The space shuttle Endeavour lifted off, carrying pieces of the International Space Station and a living reminder of the loss of the shuttle Challenger two decades ago.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/education/10education.html?e
The agency is asking for voluntary compliance with its proposed rules banning certain marketing practices by loan companies before the rules take effect next year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/nyregion/11laramie.html?ex=1
The play, which focuses on the 1998 beating and murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, will be presented as an assembly for Ocean Township High School.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/nyregion/11school.html?ex=13
Debbie Almontaser stepped down as the principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy, after she was quoted defending the use of the word “intifada” as a T-shirt slogan.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/nyregion/13translate.html?ex
With 40 employees and a $4.5 million annual budget, the translation office for New York City’s public schools claims to be the largest of its kind in the country.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 1 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/education/13abroad.html?ex=1
As overseas study has become a prized credential of the undergraduate experience, a competitive industry has emerged.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 1 comment(s)
August 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/nyregion/thecity/14middle.ht
Mayor Bloomberg said he would direct additional funding to about 50 of the city’s lowest performing middle schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/us/14brfs-STUDENTLENDE_BRF.h
The state’s attorney general has reversed a decision relieving Nelnet, a student lender, from paying $1 million.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/us/14brfs-FALLINGROCKK_BRF.h
The Rocky Mountain director of the National Outdoor Leadership School, Pete Absolon, died in a climbing accident.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/nyregion/14middle.html?ex=13
Mayor Bloomberg said he would direct additional funding to about 50 of the city’s lowest-performing middle schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/education/14brfs-UNIVERSITYP
The University of California president, Robert C. Dynes, will step down from his position in June, the university said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/nyregion/14school.html?ex=13
Danielle Salzberg, an education official experienced in starting new schools but not in speaking Arabic, will take over as principal at the Khalil Gibran International Academy.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/education/15education.html?e
A controversy in Montgomery County, Md., illustrates how fraught the road can be for educators who teach students about sensitive social issues.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/world/asia/15india.html?ex=1
A broad revision of India’s school curriculum is reshaping how Indian children grasp the workings of their nation and its place in the world.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/education/15face.html?ex=134
To find some help in taking on the challenges that face American public education, some educators are looking to England’s experience.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/education/15school.html?ex=1
The good intentions behind opening an Arabic school in New York ran straight into the treacherous ethnic and ideological political currents of the city.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/science/space/15shuttle.html
Barbara R. Morgan’s lesson from space was just over 20 minutes, but it was supposed to make up for more than 20 years.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/education/15brfs-ACTSCORESRI
The average score on the ACT college admissions test crept up slightly this year to 21.2 out of a possible score of 36, up from 21.1 last year, the testing organization reported.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/us/16virginia.html?ex=134491
Families of the Virginia Tech students and faculty members shot to death in April will receive more compensation than originally planned.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/education/16major.html?ex=13
A high school in New Jersey is requiring students to declare a major as freshmen.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/education/16abroad.html?ex=1
New York’s attorney general is opening an inquiry into the relationships between universities and providers of study abroad.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/education/17rankings.html?ex
U.S. News & World Report releases its rankings of America’s top colleges, under attack as never before by college officials who accuse it of using dubious statistics.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/education/17school.html?ex=1
More than one-quarter of New Jersey’s 2,430 public schools were cited for failing to meet federal education standards after too few of their students passed state reading and math tests this spring.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/nyregion/17forprofit.html?ex
The parent company of Interboro Institute, a commercial college in New York City, has been ordered to repay the federal government about $2.5 million.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/nyregion/18audit.html?ex=134
The department suffers from inadequate staffing and resources, organizational problems and a lack of training and communications, according to an audit by state officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/us/20vatech.html?ex=13452624
As students return to classes at Virginia Tech, the campus is walking a fine line between remembering and moving on.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/nutrition/21patt.html
The more overweight a child, the more likely he or she is to be absent from school, a new report suggests.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/nyregion/21bikes.html?ex=134
New York University has approved a plan to recycle abandoned bicycles in an effort to encourage cycling and also lessen the waste created by discarding them.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/nyregion/21school.html?ex=13
The New Jersey education commissioner disputed an audit that found the Education Department lacked the ability to carry out its increased oversight responsibilities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/education/21highschool.html?
New York City is at the forefront of a movement to recognize that for a significant number of students, high school might take more than four years.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/nyregion/21protest.html?ex=1
About 200 demonstrators gathered to show support for the beleaguered Khalil Gibran International Academy, with many calling for the reinstatement of its principal.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/arts/music/22pomeroy.html?ex
Herb Pomeroy was a trumpeter who influenced generations of musicians as a teacher at Berklee College of Music and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/business/22harvard.html?ex=1
The results brought the value of the nation’s largest university endowment, now overseen by Mohamed A. El-Erian, to $34.9 billion.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/education/22education.html?e
A Supreme Court decision from June could impact a racially balanced schools plan that has been maintained for 18 years by White Plains.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/education/22french.html?ex=1
The inclusion of French brings the total number of languages in the dual-language program to five, including Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole and Russian.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)