http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/washington/01brfs-BUSHSETTOS
President Bush will sign legislation aimed at shoring up the $85 billion student loan industry once the House passes a version approved by the Senate, the White House said.May 2008
May 01, 2008
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/business/smallbusiness/01sbi
As college courses in how to start small businesses are becoming as ubiquitous as Economics 101, gone is the conventional wisdom that such skills cannot be learned in class.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/01legal.html?partner=rssn
At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, a law professor has sued two of his students, alleging that they defamed him by unfairly describing him as a racist.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 02, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/education/02reading.html?par
President Bush’s $1 billion a year effort to teach reading to low-income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension, according to a Department of Education.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/02oakland.html?partner=rs
About two dozen teachers across Oakland set aside their normal lesson plans in favor of topics like the war in Iraq, racial inequality and a recent 10 percent cut in the state schools budget.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 03, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04edline.html?partne
Programs that let parents track grades in real time are popular but can raise stress.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/nyregion/03auctions.html?par
Parent association auctions have become more elaborate, and some have raised more than $150,000 in good years.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/weekinreview/04carey.html?pa
Albert Hofmann, the chemist and father of LSD, lived just long enough to see his “problem child” brought back into the lab.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/world/asia/04islam.html?part
Turkish educators are offering an alternative approach to religious schools that could reduce extremists’ influence.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/education/04wheaton.html?par
At Wheaton College, an evangelical liberal arts school, a faculty member has chosen to resign rather than explain to the administration the reasons behind his divorce.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 05, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/sports/baseball/05odermann.h
A virtually unknown stockbroker from San Jose, Calif., Don Odermann has spent 25 years as a silent baseball benefactor for Latino players.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/us/05bush.html?partner=rssny
A year to the day after a deadly tornado nearly wiped Greensburg, Kan., off the map, the high school had an out-of-town commencement speaker: President Bush.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 06, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/nyregion/06closed.html?partn
A growing number of high schools have recently stopped allowing students to go out for lunch due to concerns over traffic accidents and in some cases, truancy.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 07, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/dining/07culinary.html?partn
In early April, more than two-thirds of the members of the teachers’ union at the Culinary Institute of America approved a vote of no confidence against the president.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/us/07orleans.html?partner=rs
The limited progress seen in test results released Tuesday is an improvement over stagnant conditions before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, officials said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/washington/07cong.html?partn
A measure to be considered by the House would essentially underwrite a public university education for anyone who has served on active duty for at least three years.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/education/07education.html?p
Two Brooklyn high schools spent the past decade careering toward opposite destinies. The question now is whether the failure of one will destroy the success of the other.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/us/07students.html?partner=r
An undercover operation in San Diego netted more than $100,000 worth of drugs and several weapons.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 08, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/us/08blaze.html?partner=rssn
The blaze raised questions about the future of Our Lady of the Lake University, which has been losing enrollment for nine years and has an endowment of only $27 million.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/world/africa/08zimbabwe.html
Zimbabwe’s ruling party has broadened its campaign of intimidation to include teachers and even aid workers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 09, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/nyregion/09alumni.html?partn
A frenzied push for cash by alumni and students at Hudson Catholic Regional High School will keep the school open for at least one more year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/nyregion/09schools.html?part
Critics say that the process the city uses to determine when to build new schools is flawed, preventing construction from keeping pace with residential development.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/education/09admissions.html?
Several highly selective colleges are offering admission to an unusually large number of students from their wait lists, which will probably lead others to do the same.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/turmoil-in-student-lending/i
Answers to four basic questions that borrowers and potential borrowers might have about uncertainty in the student lending business.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 10, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11Girls-t.html?part
Everyone wants girls to have as many opportunities in sports as boys. But can we live with the greater rate of injuries they suffer?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/education/11agents.html?part
The use of overseas recruiting agents, who are paid both by colleges seeking students and students looking for advice on college selection, is raising uncomfortable questions.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 11, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/education/11school.html?part
A fight at a troubled South Los Angeles high school escalated into a campuswide brawl involving as many as 600 students before it was quelled by police officers in riot gear.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 12, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/arts/television/12elec.html?
The 2009 version of “The Electric Company” is a weekly, more danceable version of its former daily self.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/education/12dallas.html?part
Instead of sending truant students to juvenile detention, school officials in East Dallas have begun an electronic monitoring program to improve attendance rates.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/business/media/12mag.html?pa
Plans for 02138, a magazine for Harvard alumni, include expanding it into social networking and event sponsorship, and then duplicating the operation for each Ivy League school.
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May 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/washington/13tsa.html?partne
Rejected applicants for an ID card meant to guard against acts of terrorism received a letter from a security administration official that warned: “I have determined that you pose a security threat.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 14, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/education/14teach.html?partn
The program that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in public schools that are difficult to staff will place 3,700 new teachers this fall, up from 2,900 last year.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/world/14codes.html?partner=r
The loss of life in schools collapsed by the earthquake around China could have been reduced using known methods for designing or retrofitting structures in earthquake zones, experts said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 15, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/education/15brfs-STUDENTFEES
The cost of attending a California State University is going up again after a decision by the system’s governing board to authorize a 10 percent increase in student fees.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/education/15university.html?
The West Virginia University faculty demanded that the president of the university quit over awarding a degree to the governor’s daughter, which she had not earned.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 16, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/theater/18shat.html?partner=
The 52nd Street Project lifts children out of their tumultuous lives and into the world of the theater.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/washington/16cong.html?partn
The bill will provide veterans who enlisted after the Sept. 11 attacks with new education benefits.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/education/16global.html?part
A district in Nassau County is taking globalization to the graduate level, integrating international studies into every aspect of its curriculum.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16bigcity.html?part
A principal at a Bedford-Stuyvesant school employs novel methods to help his students succeed.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html?par
After years of conflict, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child, have reached an agreement that will put Windows on the organization’s computers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 17, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/18
As public schools prepare for the annual New Jersey state assessments, few others have as much to prove — or as much at stake — as the Newton Street School in Newark.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 18, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/nyregion/18fashion.html?part
The founders of the Parish Nation clothing label engaged the often-neglected students at a Camden school in the production of a hip-hop fashion show.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/education/19rossman.html?par
Mr. Rossman, an organizer of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, was later known for his books on politics, society and education.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 20, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/education/20girls.html?partn
A new report says the largest disparities in educational achievement are not between boys and girls but between those of different races, ethnicities and income levels.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 21, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/education/21education.html?p
John Kuhlman, who nearly lost his hearing, has been teaching immigrants to read and write English, to listen and speak.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/washington/22soldiers.html?p
A measure that would create the biggest expansion of the G.I. Bill in a quarter century has encountered a new complication: the military still needs its soldiers in uniform, not classrooms.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/education/22loan.html?partne
Several analysts predicted that the Department of Education plan would significantly stabilize the college lending market.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/22henderson.html?partner=
Mrs. Henderson was the sole surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark federal desegregation case of 1954.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/nyregion/22schools.html?part
Some of New York City’s highest-performing schools could suffer “painful” budget cuts as high as 6 percent next year, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/22brfs-UNIVERSITYGE_BRF.h
In the largest gift to a university from a living donor this year, Oklahoma State University is being given $100 million by the energy tycoon Boone Pickens.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/22tobacco.html?partner=rs
A public university in Virginia has a contract with a tobacco company that bars professors from publishing the results of their studies without the company’s permission.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/nyregion/23bigcity.html?part
The fine print required parents pay full tuition to a desirable private school, if their child attended, or not.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/nyregion/23schools.html?part
The city’s Department of Education released a list on Thursday of 74 schools, including its most prestigious high schools, that are to have their budgets for next year cut by more than 5 percent.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/nyregion/24lunch.html?partne
Some high schools hope to reduce stress on students with too many Advanced Placement classes to have time to eat.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/education/25hardin.html?part
Many American Indian families are sending their children off the reservation to attend school, as the stigma that was once attached to doing so has faded.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/nyregion/25towns.html?partne
There was no shortage of story lines to be found in the events leading up to Wesleyan’s 176th commencement on Sunday.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/nyregion/25towns.html?partne
There was no shortage of story lines to be found in the events leading up to Wesleyan’s 176th commencement on Sunday.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/us/26tax.html?partner=rssnyt
The Minnesota Supreme Court’s ruling that a day care agency had to pay taxes because it essentially gave nothing away has alarmed nonprofit groups.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/education/26green.html?partn
As part of a growing campus sustainability movement, students are reducing carbon emissions in their own lives.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/us/politics/26wesleyan.html?
The symbolism of protégé and mentor permeated Barack Obama’s speech to graduates at Wesleyan University as he stood in for Edward M. Kennedy.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 27, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27angi.html?partner=
The battle between the sciences and the humanities has been going on for so long, its early participants are already dead.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/education/27sat.html?partner
Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., will no longer require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/sports/othersports/27wrestli
Officials at tuition-hungry small colleges say women’s wrestling is an untapped market of prospective students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27schoo.html?partner
Despite some progress to make schools safer, vulnerability prevails around the world’s seismic hot spots, from the Pacific Northwest to the Philippines.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/nyregion/28schools.html?part
If Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein were looking for allies in his latest battle with state officials over education funding, he would have found few in the City Council chamber on Tuesday.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/nyregion/28newark.html?partn
After nearly four dozen job applications over the past six months, the search for a new superintendent of New Jersey’s largest school system has been narrowed to three candidates.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 29, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/nyregion/29schools.html?part
A new application process intended to simplify pre-kindergarten enrollment has left parents confused and angry about options for their children, New York City’s public advocate said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
May 31, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/31graduate.html?par
Economists said the class of 2008 has been helped by employers concerned by the impending exodus of baby boomers from the work force, but that the job market is still going to get tougher.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
