http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/washington/01bush.html?partn
In his last commencement address as president, Mr. Bush emphasized “the importance of a responsibility society,” based on the “bedrock values of faith and family.”June 2008
June 01, 2008
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/01
Officials in the region are trying to call attention to the perils of prom and graduation season.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 02, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/media/02alumni.html
The advent of social networking Web sites has created a quandary for alumni magazines, which have been slow to embrace the Web.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/02loans.html?partne
Some of the nation’s biggest banks have cut off students at community colleges and other less competitive schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/world/middleeast/02fulbright
The move reversed a decision to withdraw the scholarships because of Israel’s ban on Palestinians’ leaving Gaza for study abroad.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 03, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/education/03sisters.html?par
Five leading women’s colleges have gone recruiting to a place where single-sex education is more than a niche product.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/education/03harvard.html?par
A handful of Harvard University alumni have waged a quiet effort to persuade the university to use its wealth in unprecedented ways, like supporting colleges in Africa.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/03conflict.html?partn
Of 150 medical schools ranked by the American Medical Student Association, most fail to adequately police gifts that drug companies often shower on doctors and trainees.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 04, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/us/04evolution.html?partner=
Starting this summer, the Texas education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and decide whether the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution should be taught.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/education/04education.html?p
After four years and a quick review, a move on to other journalistic endeavors.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 06, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/education/06bonuses.html?par
The bonuses range from $5,500 to $15,000 for principals and from $2,750 to $7,500 for assistant principals.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/education/06schools.html?par
With changes to the dizzying array of admission procedures for the city’s prekindergartens and middle schools have come some snags.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/education/07west.html?partne
Following a controversy over a degree improperly awarded to the governor’s daughter, the president of West Virginia University said that he would resign.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 07, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/education/07teachers.html?pa
The teacher’s union says city teachers who are not assigned to permanent classroom jobs still play a vital role in the school system.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/washington/07teach.html?part
A federal audit of a nonprofit that recruits college graduates to teach in low-income schools, shows the group did not properly account for government money in received for teacher training.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/07walkout.html?partner=rs
Tens of thousands of teachers formed picket lines outside nearly 900 Los Angeles schools to protest cuts to education financing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 08, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/education/08yale.html?partne
Yale University announced that it will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent, to about 6,000, by building two new residential colleges that are expected to open in 2013.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/world/asia/08geese.html?part
A growing number of South Korean families choose to live separately, to school their children in English-speaking countries where the mother and children live while fathers remain home to work.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 09, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/media/09link.html?p
Social Science Research Network offers nearly 150,000 full-text documents for downloading and gives academics to see how popular their writings are online.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/arts/09sand.html?partner=rss
Sandra Day O’Connor, the former Supreme Court justice, is helping develop a Web site and interactive civics curriculum for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 10, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/education/10asians.html?part
The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the campuses of the nation’s most selective colleges came under assault in a report.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/sports/football/10school.htm
A high school football coach in Parkersburg, Iowa, is trying to rebuild his program in the aftermath of a devastating tornado.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 12, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12education.html?partner=
Democrats are dividing into camps as they debate a new course for education policy after President Bush leaves office.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/washington/12spellings.html?
Margaret Spellings, the United States secretary of education, is on a campaign to preserve President Bush’s beleaguered education initiative, No Child Left Behind.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12lousiana.html?partner=r
The Louisiana Senate voted 25 to 12 for a bill that would let up to 1,500 low- to middle-income students in New Orleans attend private schools at taxpayer expense.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/13cleveland.html?partner=
Mr. Cleveland, a former president of the University of Hawaii and an American ambassador to NATO, pressed for nuclear arms control and strengthening of the United Nations.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 14, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/jobs/15pre.html?partner=rssn
Taking a gap year after high school — to pursue other interests before applying to college — can define career paths.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/jobs/15career.html?partner=r
Online degrees can be a boon to your career and your life, as long you choose the right program and understand the commitment that will be involved.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 15, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/education/15comm.html?partne
Speakers — including authors, executives, newscasters, athletes, comedians and actors — focused on traditional messages.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 17, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/education/17school.html?part
Four seniors at the University of Vermont were on a mission to recruit minority students from New York City to pursue environmental studies in college and as a career.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/us/17slam.html?partner=rssny
Students at the Santa Fe Indian School are drawing national attention for their decidedly American Indian take on an art form that has grown increasingly popular with young people.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 18, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/education/18child.html?partn
A study argues that the nation’s focus on helping students who are furthest behind may have yielded steady academic gains for low-achieving students in recent years at the expense of top students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/education/18sat.html?partner
The revamped SAT, expanded three years ago to include a writing test, predicts college success no better than the old test, according to studies by the College Board, which owns the test.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/business/18loan.html?partner
After reports that some lenders have stopped offering federal loans at community colleges, two senators introduced legislation to forbid lenders from picking and choosing among institutions.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/us/19tree.html?partner=rssny
Protesters who have occupied a stand of coastal oaks at the University of California, Berkeley, for 19 months claimed victory when a judge ruled that a project on the site must be temporarily delayed.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/education/19teach.html?partn
Wendy Kopp and Richard Barth are a power couple in the world of education, emblematic of a new class of young social entrepreneurs seeking to reshape the United States’ educational landscape.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/nyregion/19gifted.html?partn
A new analysis shows that children from the city’s poorest districts were offered a smaller percentage than last year of the entry-grade gifted slots in elementary schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 20, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/20pregnant.html?partner=r
At least 17 girls at the public high school in Gloucester, Mass., are expecting babies, and a report says nearly half became pregnant after making a pact to do so and raise the children together.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/nyregion/20bigcity.html?part
Friends Seminary is most likely the first school in New York to offer Arabic that doesn’t have a significant Arabic-speaking student body.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20spend.html?part
The House voted to offer military veterans what amounts to a free college education in a package that finances the war in Iraq through the end of President Bush’s term.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 21, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/22
A principal is trying to reach out to immigrant parents, who often are 0n the sidelines in an era of hovering parent.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/education/21work.html?partne
New college graduates lucky enough to be gainfully employed sometimes find their joy tempered by the realization that they no longer will have summers “off.”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/fashion/22grad.html?partner=
While some educators are grateful that notice is still being paid to academic achievement, others deride the festivities as overpraising what should be routine accomplishment.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23cuny.html?p
Leonard Tow is pledging $5 million to Columbia University and the City University of New York to examine how the troubled newspaper business can succeed online.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/education/23careers.html?par
At Harvard, educators are questioning with new vigor whether too many top students are being lured by high-paying corporate jobs.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/nyregion/23cnd-scores.html?p
Test scores in grades three through eight improved across the state, with particularly sizeable gains in urban areas.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/nyregion/24hayes.html?partne
George Carlin is not the most famous graduate of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. But he is without doubt the most famous Hayesman who never graduated.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/education/24scores.html?part
Reading and math scores in grades three through eight improved across the state, especially in urban areas, including New York City.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/us/24move.html?partner=rssny
In response to the turmoil in Flint schools, Michigan is giving some families $100 a month to help them stay put.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/us/24pregnant.html?partner=r
The mayor of Gloucester, Mass., said there was no independent evidence that a group of high school girls had made a pact to become pregnant and raise their babies together, as a magazine reported.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/education/24tesoro.html?part
A senior has been arrested on charges that he broke into the high school several times, hacked into administrative computers, changed grades and sent copies of test answers to dozens of students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/health/nutrition/24well.html
Camp food is just one of the summertime nutrition challenges for parents these days.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/education/24scores.html?part
Test scores in grades three through eight improved across the state, with particularly sizeable gains in urban areas.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/us/24move.html?partner=rssny
In response to the turmoil in Flint schools, Michigan is giving some families $100 a month to help them stay put.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/education/25gift.html?partne
A New York school district has revived a controversial retention practice to not only hold back nearly 12 percent of its first-graders this spring but to segregate them come fall.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/education/26careers.html?par
An evaluation of nine career academies has found that eight years after graduation, participants had significantly higher employment and earnings than similar students in a control group.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/education/26harbor.html?part
A New York City school is trying to raise academic achievement and confidence by having students learn about and navigate the harbor that surrounds the city.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 27, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/education/27school.html?part
Of more than 61,000 respondents, 85 percent disagreed with the statement that the Joel I. Klein’s emphasis on testing had improved education in their schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/29
To improve their dropout numbers, officials in districts throughout Long Island say they are taking aggressive steps to keep students in the classroom.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 29, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/education/29vermont.html?par
The Vermont Law School is denied some federal research money because of its policy barring military recruiters.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/education/29vermont.html?par
The Vermont Law School has been denied some federal research money because of its policy barring military recruiters.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
June 30, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/education/26careers.html?par
An evaluation of nine career academies has found that eight years after graduation, participants had significantly higher employment and earnings than similar students in a control group.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/education/30school.html?part
At the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Brooklyn, many in the first graduating class of 79 seniors are from the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and nearly all are collegebound.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/sports/ncaafootball/30mcfarl
In an era when prospects increasingly seek out the trappings of handouts and entourages, Jamarkus McFarland, the country’s top defensive recruit, stands out.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
