http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/education/01school.html?part
While school districts struggle with financial problems, record numbers of students turning up for classes this fall are homeless or poor enough to qualify for free meals.September 2008
September 01, 2008
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September 02, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/nyregion/02control.html?part
Allies of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg are working to renew the landmark state law that gave New York City’s mayor control of its public schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 03, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/03brfs-SCHOOLFINANC_BRF.h
More than 1,000 Chicago public school students boycotted the first day of classes in a protest over school financing and instead rode buses to try to enroll in a wealthy suburban district.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/education/03first.html?partn
Among the one million-plus students and 80,000 teachers who started classes Tuesday at 1,499 schools around New York City, some were attending for the first time.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 04, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/04florida.html?partner=rs
Two constitutional amendments intended to help Florida’s school voucher programs withstand legal challenges cannot appear on the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04bully.html?partne
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced regulations that are meant to combat bullying in city schools that is based on bias.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/education/04school.html?part
The panel of education experts recommended that the law be renewed but amended to limit City Hall’s power.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05gift.html?partne
The gift to the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard was the biggest so far from Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion-dollar.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 05, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/05loan.html?partner
The attorney general is preparing a lawsuit against Goal Financial, charging that the lender broke laws by luring borrowers with cash and gifts and that it misled consumers about loan terms.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/nyregion/05harlem.html?partn
Speakers opposed to the expansion of Columbia University in the western part of Harlem linked the university’s plan with gentrification taking place elsewhere in Harlem.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/education/05fschool.html?par
Nearly a year after New York City’s first report cards for public schools were issued, the majority of the principals who ran the 52 schools labeled as failing remain in place.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07wwln-lede-t.html?
What poor kids really need can’t be taught in a classroom.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/yourmoney/06money.h
What students about to take out their first loan should know.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 06, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/07
As the cost of diesel fuel has soared well past what many districts budgeted for last spring, school officials are rethinking their transportation needs.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/07
After three years of delays, the students of Hamilton Avenue Elementary will finally get to move into their newly renovated school this fall — but that may not happen until the end of October.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/technology/07unbox.html?part
The University Small Business Patent Procedures Act is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics, who charge that it has distorted the fundamental mission of universities.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 08, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/nyregion/08honors.html?partn
An elite undergraduate program of the City University of New York is being taught for the first time this fall in a majestic four-story brownstone on the Upper West Side.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/education/08students.html?pa
The practice of students’ registering to vote at their college address has set off a fracas in Virginia, after a local registrar incorrectly suggested dire consequences for students who register at college.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 09, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/09tree.html?partner=rssny
After a court victory, the University of California, Berkeley, was still waiting for four protesters to come down from one of two remaining redwoods in a contested grove.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/education/09smart.html?partn
The Georgia state school superintendent, Kathy Cox, won $1 million on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/education/09college.html?par
Two dozen college presidents and policy experts defended the rising costs of tuition and argued against requiring colleges to spend more of their endowments.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/education/09miami.html?partn
The Miami-Dade County School Board and Rudy Crew, the superintendent who came promising to overhaul education as he did in New York City, agreed to part ways.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/business/10loan.html?partner
The agreement was part of a settlement of claims that they misled consumers about loan terms and benefits.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 10, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10educate.html?p
More than most campaign blueprints, Barack Obama’s education plan reflects his own work with Chicago’s public schools, people who have worked with him said.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 11, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/nyregion/11service.html?part
For the past six years, engineering students at the university have been required to participate in community service projects, and other departments may adopt the practice.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/nyregion/11towns.html?partne
The uncertain future of Mory’s, once the heart of all-male, almost-all-WASP Yale, may say more than a bit about the semi-insane role that college ties and traditions play in American life.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 12, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14
Sending twins off to college bred double anxiety. The kids seem happy, while a father tries to remember what adults do with free time.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/education/12school.html?part
Public School 8, a respected Brooklyn school, is set to receive an F, renewing concerns about the city’s system of grading.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14
Palisade Preparatory School provides top-notch instruction to disadvantaged students of troubled Yonkers.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/nyregion/13about.html?partne
How could a red-hot school in Brooklyn Heights — with surging enrollment, with test scores that are above average, and with extras paid for by parents’ fund-raisers — be declared a failure?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/magazine/14bipolar-t.html?pa
What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/jobs/14starts.html?partner=r
As thousands of students look to get into the schools of their choice, private educational consultants take up where overburdened high school guidance counselors leave off.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 15, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/technology/15link.html?partn
A few college professors have started putting their textbooks online to protest the high prices that textbook publishers can get.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 16, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/education/16suny.html?partne
Gov. David A. Paterson is expected to meet with the candidates during the next two weeks before selecting one, according to education and state officials.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/education/16grades.html?part
Chancellor Joel I. Klein may assign grades of A through F to the staff members who organize an event revealing report cards for New York City schools.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/nyregion/17grades.html?partn
The percentage of schools getting A’s in New York’s blunt grading system jumped to 38 percent from 23 percent.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 18, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/education/18grant.html?partn
Estimates suggest that the new president will face an unusually burdensome financing shortfall that would accompany trimming the nation’s leading college aid program.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19school.html?partn
Greenwich Village High, one of two new high schools opening in Lower Manhattan next year, will start accepting applications in October.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/education/19bonus.html?partn
Teachers at 89 elementary and middle schools will receive bonuses of several thousand dollars each, based on the progress their schools made on report cards released this week.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/education/19college.html?par
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21unigo-t.html?part
An online start-up allows high-schoolers to find out what students really think about their colleges.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 20, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21youtube-t.html?pa
Five studies in the new world of online lecturing.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22admissions.html?
A panel convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending a move away from SAT and ACT scores.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22conservative.htm
Donors are financing initiatives to restore what some see as the casualties of the culture wars of the ’80s and ’90s.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22peer.html?partne
The parents at Public School 363 in the East Village were stumped by the D on its report card. How had the school fallen so far, so fast?Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/nyregion/22bigcity.html?part
Teenagers observing the markets gyrate and the government officials scramble are seeing institutions that they had every reason to trust flailing in ineptitude.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22teacher.html?par
A report finds that New York City could pay teachers whose positions were eliminated more than $74 million to be substitutes or replacements.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23troy.html?partner=
Eight years and $200 million in the making, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center aims to be a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/health/nutrition/23nutr.html
A new study suggests that banning soft drink sales in elementary schools only slightly reduces how much soda children drink.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/education/24bonus.html?partn
Teachers and principals at five failed schools earned cash bonuses for their successes on standardized tests, which officials explained largely as a question of short-term versus long-term goals.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/education/25educ.html?partne
A $44 million program called the Educational Innovation Laboratory is intended to infuse education with the data-driven approach that is common in science and businessPosted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/nyregion/25west.html?partner
The new library on the campus of the United States Military Academy is meant to show a commitment to modernization.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/nyregion/25stern.html?partne
Students at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business are charged with investing nearly $2 million of the university’s $2.2 billion endowment over the course of the semester.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/education/26teachers.html?pa
The announcement that the school system must cut its budget has renewed a push to convince the teachers’ union to end the policy of keeping reserve teachers on the payroll.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/media/26adco.html?p
Classes at three high schools in California will be spending the next six or seven weeks developing ideas for the “Got milk?” campaign.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/nyregion/26shenker.html?part
Dr. Shenker was the first president of La Guardia Community College in New York and a leader in having students combine on-the-job experience with their studies.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/science/26bloom.html?partner
Mr. Bloom was the director of the science museum and planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/connecticut/28colct
Led by Timothy Cipriano, the New Haven school lunch program has been rebuilt from the ground up — and the cooking taken in-house.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/us/28detroit.html?partner=rs
The public school system in Detroit stand sto lose tens of millions of dollars in state financing due to a large drop in the number of students it serves.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/education/28grades.html?part
Grades for New York City schools are determined, in part, by a series of subjective decisions about which factors to use and how to weigh them.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 29, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29raeff.html?partn
Professor Raeff was a Russian émigré who became one of the country’s leading scholars of Russian history, writing the first study of the Russian diaspora.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29admissions.html?
William R. Fitzsimmons’s first public presentation of the findings of the Study of the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission drew a large audience at the Seattle convention.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/books/29woodruff.html?partne
Mr. Woodruff was an eminent historian who wrote two best-selling books that made him a celebrity in his native England and a living link to a vanished working-class Britain.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
September 30, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30nyu.html?partner=
New York University announced that Alfred H. Bloom will lead its new Abu Dhabi campus in the United Arab Emirates.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/world/europe/30schools.html?
Some of the country’s Roman Catholic schools have become refugees for Muslim students seeking equal opportunities and religious accommodation.Posted by Brooklyn College Art Education | 0 comment(s)
