http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/education/01education.html?p
The House overwhelmingly approved an overhaul of the nation’s higher education law, adding dozens of provisions and programs to help families with soaring college costs.August 2008
August 01, 2008
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August 05, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/nyregion/05grenada.html?part
A deal with a Caribbean school to provide clinical training for students at the city’s public hospitals has stoked fears that clerkships will grow more scarce.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 06, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/nyregion/06private.html?part
With the recent boom in the city’s under-5 set, the competition for kindergarten places can rival that of Ivy League admission.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 08, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/education/08bully.html?partn
The legislation includes language protecting transgender students and teachers, has been a priority of advocates for gay and lesbian rights but was ignored for nearly a decade in the Senate.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/education/08kaplan.html?part
Northeastern is using Kaplan Inc. to find students for, and help run, a special program for international students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 10, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/education/09stanns.html?part
A federal probation office located in the same building as the school has some parents concerned.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 11, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/education/11summer.html?part
Nearly 7,500 seniors enrolled in summer classes at dozens of the city’s high schools hope to graduate in August.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 12, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/education/12graduation.html?
For the first time, more than half of New York City’s high school students are graduating on time, according to 2007 graduation figures.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/education/12vernon.html?part
A last-ditch campaign to save a tradition of school sports in Mount Vernon has raised $225,451, including $100,000 from the actor Denzel Washington, a former resident.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/world/asia/13cram.html?partn
South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of “a war” and are turning to intense, regimented campuses.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 17, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/17
Students and faculty at Norwalk Community College plan to step up efforts to force a redesign of a health and science center that would abide by more stringent standards for energy efficiency.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html?part
As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17NewOrleans-t.html
Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged children.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/technology/19review.html?par
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/education/19schools.html?par
The new schools — the largest number to open in the city in a single year — will bring the number of charter schools in the city to 78, serving 24,000 students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/ask-about-new-yorks-charter-
This week, James D. Merriman IV, the chief executive of the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, is answering readers' questions.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 20, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/education/20cash.html?partne
A program offering up to $1,000 to for scoring well on Advanced Placement exams yielded relatively flat results, adding fuel to the debate over how to motivate students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 21, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/technology/21iphone.html?par
Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/us/22drinking.html?partner=r
Gains outweighed the losses in the effort by college presidents to lower the drinking age, as 15 more signed on, for a total of 123.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/education/23prek.html?partne
Ten years after leaders promised to work toward universal pre-kindergarten programs, fewer than 38 percent of 4-year-olds attend state-financed classes.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?p
David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/education/25lunches.html?par
The price increases, generally about 25 cents a meal, come as school districts in New York and across the country try to eke more out of already tight budgets.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/nyregion/25hofstra.html?part
The debate at Hofstra caps a prolonged effort by the university to have a voice in the nation’s political discourse.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/education/26core.html?partne
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a pilot program that would overhaul the way children in 10 city schools are taught to read.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 27, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27sat.html?partner
The average scores for the three sections of the SAT were identical for the classes of 2007 and 2008: 502 in the critical-reading section, 515 in mathematics, and 494 in writing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/education/27test.html?partne
The Bloomberg administration is asking elementary school principals across New York City to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergarten.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28purdue.html?partne
An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 29, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/education/29clayton.html?par
Four school board members were removed for ethics violations from the Atlanta area school system — the nation’s first in nearly 40 years to lose its accreditation.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/29texas.html?partner=rssn
A school board in north-central Texas has drawn attention by letting some teachers carry concealed weapons.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 30, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/nyregion/30supplies.html?par
Many schools both poor and prosperous are asking parents to purchase more, and more particular, school supplies.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31
One of New Jersey’s first charter schools went looking for some of its first students to see if their early experience at a charter school made a difference.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
August 31, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/education/31ucla.html?partne
A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, resigned from an admissions committee, saying he suspected officials were illegally admitting more black students.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
