NY Post:
The state Education Department is failing to ensure that schools don't inflate the results of diploma-granting Regents exams, according to an audit by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
Officials found in 2005 that schools had awarded students wit... (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
School arts programs are again under assault, having, in many cases, never recovered from past cutbacks. At the same time, Goldman Sachs has image problems its chief, Lloyd Blankfein, did not anticipate, cannot identify with and continues to exacerbate. These matters are linked; one begets the other.In recent decades, the e (Read More)
The Guardian:
A reader tells of her love of G2, Suduoku and cost-saving tips in Money as well as a project involving young deaf NepalisMy husband and I have been reading the Guardian for years. On weekdays I start with G2 – I'm addicted to the Sudoku puzzle. He always starts with Sport and usually beats me to getting to the main paper. W (Read More)
Huffington Post:
As Obama's Department of Education touts its charter-school-propelling "Race to the Top," whose regulations were issued last week, let's heed the moral of the fable that we all learned in grade school: In the end, the Tortoise beats out the Hare.Alan Gottlieb recently wrote about a plan by the Denver Public Schools to effec (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostessGertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due to their unremarkable encounters with other, more eminent, Victorians. Heavy-browed and scornful-eyed (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildrenEd Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical and social understanding". Personally I did prefer the words "history" and "geography", partly bec (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Earlier this month the Ford Foundation made an exciting announcement: they're giving away $100 million to improve secondary education in urban schools.This is fantastic news to anyone who cares about education, the American Dream, and the future of America's economy. Which is why I was so shocked by an editorial in Tuesday (Read More)
Reuters: Deals:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors bet on growth opportunity in the IPOs of a Chinese hotel chain and an online education company on Friday, but saw murkier prospects for a spin-off of mining giant Rio Tinto, sending its shares lower.
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers are right: it is a great EU stitch-up, this back-room installation of favoured placemen. Saying so d (Read More)
MSNBC:
A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
Pennsylvania - Student - Education - Social Work Taskforce - Colleges and Universities. (Read More)