tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272432332011-07-08T02:56:36.707+03:00Education news and articlesNKnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27243233.post-60983675156585425842008-11-22T00:48:00.001+02:002008-11-22T00:48:32.462+02:00

Man is curious by nature and always remains busy in new and novel things. Poverty has many dimensions and quenches the thirst of man in this regard. He always comes by odd, weird and strange happenings due to poverty. Mother killed her babies, a father slaughtered his family, a brother ate to his fill while his little sisters and brother died due to famine. All these headlines are the offspring

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Students all need mobile phones to get in touch with friends, classmates and family. They also need more access to information for their school requirements. Entertainment is very much in demand to most students as well.The Basic Mobile Phone Needs of StudentsMost students enjoy sending text messages. They send SMS to classmates, to friends and to almost everybody many times a day. While voice

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By Michael KinsleyIf you know anything at all about the federal student loan program, you will not have been surprised by the scandal of recent months. The only amazing thing is that it has taken so long to arrive. Here's how the program works: Banks and other private companies lend money to students. The federal government pays part or all of the interest—currently 7 percent or 8 percent. The

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As the furor over American education increases, the demand for simple answers to complex issues escalates.The easiest – and most visible – target for the ills of education is the classroom teacher. After all, teachers are entrusted with providing students with the tools to be successful in life and society; taxpayers expect a return on their investment.Local, state and national standards lay out

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The NEA announced today that six states (CT, DE, IL, ME, OK, WI, and DC), the governor of Pennsylvania, state and local officials in California, and the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) filed a series of amicus briefs in support of the NEA’s appeal of the dismissal of their NCLB lawsuit, Pontiac v. Spellings.Perhaps the most interesting development is AASA’s support for the

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The Maryland State Board of Education’s move to take over 11 Baltimore schools has caused a fight between the legislature and the governor. Both the state house and senate voted overwhelmingly, 100-34 and 30-17 respectively, to block the Baltimore schools from being taken under state control and could force Governor Ehrlich to veto the bill, though the vote margins suggest that the legislature

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11 Baltimore schools are going to be taken over by Maryland after the state board of education approved the move.Specifically, the state will take over 4 high schools and direct the city to find a 3rd party to manage 7 middle schools. The takeover is being done under the auspices of the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions."It's time for the state's frustration with the lack of

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NCAA President Myles Brand is defending the academic standing of his tournament's Final Four teams. All four schools Florida, LSU, UCLA – even Cinderella George Mason University – all had unsatisfactory “academic progress rates” (APR). (Think of the APR as the NCAA’s version of NCLB’s AYP…how’s that for education acronym-speak?).An APR score of 925 equates to about a 60% graduation rate. 925 is

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Tony Lewis, executive director of the Donnell-Kay Foundation, takes aim at the Colorado State Board of Education and administers a self-inflicted wound – and he does so even before his gun is out of its holster! In his opening sentence Lewis asks, “When a statewide elected body fails to represent the people of Colorado, what action is left other than to replace it with a group that has both

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Indiana Superintendent Suellen Reed is usually the biggest statewide vote-getter on the Republican ticket – and has been for the past 14 years. But her recent clash with Governor Mitch Daniels over his preference to move the state testing dates from the fall to the spring has some wondering if the fallout will effect the 2008 race – should she decide to run again.

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This Florida student takes exception to the state board’s recent move to institute pay for performance salary structure.

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Here's a real life example of the unfortunate impact of the SAT's scoring mistakes on a student's academic career from that same NY Times story."Jake DeLillo, a star lacrosse player at Yorktown High School in New York, received recruitment letters from more than 50 colleges last year, and he was particularly interested in colleges like the University of Massachusetts, which had strong lacrosse

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