The The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation this morning announced the five finalists for the 2010 Broad Prize for Urban Education. DISD didn't make the list.Winning the Broad Prize -- the largest education award in the country given to school districts -- by 2010 was one of DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's big goals. The 2010 Broad Prize finalist school districts are:*Charlotte-Mecklenburg Sch
2010 Broad finalists announced; DISD not on the list
Posted in News by nathan 160 days ago (http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com)Woman dies, elderly man critically wounded in West Hollywood shooting
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L.A. County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding a self-inflicted shooting in West Hollywood that left an elderly man in grave condition and a 73-year-old woman dead. Deputies responded about 8 p.m. Wednesday to a report of someone screaming...
India pledges education for all children
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India launched a landmark education programme on Thursday that makes schooling compulsory for an estimated 10 million impoverished children who are currently outside the system.
‘Slutty chic’ for the prom
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Prom dresses are going risqué this year, reports the New York Post.The hot trend is slutty chic — with cleavage-revealing frocks, bellybutton-baring gowns and dresses made of barely enough fabric to make a washcloth.. . . Nathan Vaknin, manager of Fiesta Ladies Fashion, a dress store on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, said, “For prom this year, girls want short and poofy or long, tight-
A message for Washington on schools: Don't mess with Texas
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MADISONVILLE, TEX. -- As vendors sold yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags nearby, Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy assured a gathering of Tea Party activists one recent evening that President Obama was going to keep his hands off the schools in the Lone Star State.
Southeastern University Implosion Update
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Last month I wrote about how Southeastern University in Washington, DC finally collapsed in de-accreditation after being allowed to persist in mediocrity and failure for far too long, leaving a trail of drop-outs, loan defaults, and frustrated students in its wake. Now comes news that seven of those students have sued the university for fraud [...]
COMMUNITY: Charter Schools Are Still Not Public Schools
Posted in News by nathan 160 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
Last week, I explained why I no longer think that charter schools are public schools and asked for comments from the Gotham Schools community. I’ve given a lot of thought to the ideas that others have presented.
while charter schools are clearly not traditional private schools, by design they are not like traditional public schools, either. Even if we acknowledge that there are differences betwe
Notes from the news, Mar. 29
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Should schools chief have known? The InquirerSuperintendent Ackerman said she was unaware of a draft proposal to change admissions criteria for the city's magnet schools that received harsh criticism.See also: Fixing city's magnet system The Inquirer (opinion)What's wrong with flash mobs? CNNPhiladelphia Student Union on the national news explaining that kids in Philly are not a flash mob.Ci
PA not first round RttT winner
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Education Week and the Associated Pressare reporting that Pennsylvania is not among the winners in the first round of the Race to the Top competition. Only two states will get the funds: Tennessee and Delaware. More to come.Pennsylvania came in seventh with a score of 420. You can find PA's application, scores, and reviewers' comments and notes on the Department of Education's site. The Ed Week P
Science ed. conference wrap-up and thoughts
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I very much appreciated the opportunity to attend this year's National Science Teachers Association Conference. Meeting people from across the country facing the same challenges, while being innovative, was a good kick start in the midst of the long slog to the PSSA. Between the conference and reading Education Week's Technology Counts, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the state
Divided council backs electric rate hike, but less than mayor wanted
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A deeply divided Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday backed increases in electric rates, acknowledging that they will be painful for customers but insisting that the hikes are needed to maintain the Department of Water and Power’s financial health. The...
L.A. County prosecutors deny Polanski coverup
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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on Tuesday rejected claims by Roman Polanski’s attorneys that the office hid communications between top prosecutors and the judge in Polanski’s j1977 sex assault case. Polanski’s lawyers described "communications" that involved Laurence J....
Federal investigators probe why two planes were on same course near San Francisco
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Federal officials are investigating why a small airplane and commercial airliner were flying toward each other for short period of time Saturday near San Francisco International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that the United Boeing 777 and Cessna...
Official blames unions over NJ's missing of major education grant (Asbury Park Press)
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TRENTON — New Jersey isn't among the winners in the first round of the federal government's new major education grants — and the state's acting education commissioner is blaming teachers unions.
Farmers highlight evolution of agricultural science education (Asbury Park Press)
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Art West, an Allentown-Upper Freehold area farmer, recalls days past of agricultural education, when crop-production was basically the thing discussed.
Choice Bus shows students two sides of education (USA Today)
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Half school bus and half jail cell, the Choice Bus is the brainchild of Shelley Stewart of the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation in Birmingham, Ala., an education institution that targets the nation's dropout rate.
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