Florida Schools Ban Sexy Dancing

Officials of a Florida school district said they have banned high school students from dancing provocatively at school events.
UPI

The Feminization of American Education Destroying Western Civilization?

A sea change has occurred in the education of American women: young girls often academically out-perform boys, are more likely to succeed in college and have flooded once all-male professional schools,notably law and business.
Family Security Matters

Va. Candidates Confront Schools' Sinking Financial Future

Hundreds of teachers, social workers, librarians and superintendents made clear in a series of hearings across the state last week the challenges that face the next Virginia governor: Overworked teachers.
Washington Post

Report: States using stimulus to replace, not boost school aid

Duncan has also said that those states may hurt their chances at extra stimulus dollars from a $5 billion competitive grant program. The money is to reward states and school districts that adopt initiatives Obama supports, such as charter schools and teacher pay tied to student performance.
USA Today

College of Business and Public Administration receives largest grant ever

The College of Business and Public Administration announced the receipt of a $10 million anonymous grant at 2:20 p.m. Friday. The gift is the largest received by the college and is the second largest ever given to UND through the UND Foundation. The $10 million is established as a Challenge Grant and could have a $40 million impact for the Business School.
Dakota Student
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Obama Officials to Address Killing of Chicago Student

Police called the student, Derrion Albert, an innocent victim who got caught in the middle of a fight between two rival factions at Christian Fenger High School. He was killed in a beating that was captured on video. Four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in his death.
Washington Post

Bridgepoint Education's Ashford University Selected as a Letter of Instruction School

Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE BPI), a provider of post-secondary education services focused on providing higher access to higher education, announced today that Ashford University has been selected by the U.S. Army as a Letter of Instruction (LOI) school. As an LOI school, Ashford University is now listed on the GoArmyEd.com Web site as a fully-integrated participant in GoArmyEd, able to offer all application, enrollment, and tuition assistance services available
to Soldiers through the GoArmyEd portal.
Reuters

Reviving America's schools: Ready, set, go

For an idea of the task confronting Arne Duncan, Barack Obama’s education secretary, Fenger is a good place to start. The school lies closer to Indiana’s mills than Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. From 2006 to 2008 fewer than 3% of pupils met Illinois’s meagre standards of achievement. But this year everything is supposed to change. The Chicago school district chose Fenger as a “turnaround”. Old teachers have been sacked and new programmes put in place. Fenger faces formidable odds. But if Mr Duncan has his way, the school’s transformation will be the start of a larger shift.
The Economist

Fund for Teachers Provides Global Learning Adventures for America's Top Teachers

Now Accepting Applications for 2010 Summer Education Grants Fund for Teachers invites educators from across the country to dream big and submit proposals for their own do-it-yourself learning odysseys
Individual

NEA moves to help poor schools with best teachers

The USA's largest teachers union will encourage local chapters to ignore contract provisions that in the past have kept school districts' best teachers out of schools that serve mostly poor
USA Today

University systems need a revamp, says higher education agency

But cautious report comes in for immediate condemnation by chair of universities' select committee Universities must overhaul their examining methods, degree classification systems and the information Higher Education in England Has Problems but 'No Systemic Failure,' Report Says Chronicle of Higher Education. Our education system's the problem Trinidad Express
Guardian

School Choice Would Reshape U.S. Education

Tomorrow in Philadelphia, two of politics' most interesting personalities - the Rev. Al Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich - are expected to join Education Secretary Arne
School choice would reshape U.S education...
Philadelphia Inquirer

Education Chief Seeks Calm After Charter School Storm

It had already been a bad Monday for the states education secretary. Calls for his resignation were intensifying after a politically charged e-mail he sent months earlier had been made public over the...
Boston Globe

Driver's ed set for revival in public schools

Driver's education in public schools, which virtually disappeared a generation ago, could be staging a comeback. HIGH-TECH: Driver's ed gets 21st-century update Developments in driver's ed's resurgence:
USA Today

Dalai Lama Presents Gift to Emory University-Tibet Science Initiative; Announces Campus Visit, Oct. 17-19, 2010

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, who will visit Emory University Oct. 17-19, 2010, in his role as Presidential Distinguished Professor, has announced a gift of $50,000 to the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, an historic and ambitious undertaking to develop and implement a comprehensive science education curriculum for Tibetan monastics.
Media Newswire

How Schools Fail Democracy

Too many Americans are in the linguistic shadows now—possibly close to a majority. Despite intense efforts driven by the No Child Left Behind Act, the language abilities of our 17-year-olds have remained stuck at the steeply declined levels of the 1970s, while the language gap between white students on one side and black and Hispanic students on the other remains distressingly and immovably large.
The Chronicle

Elsevier Launches SciVal Funding Solution to Help U.S. Research Institutions Better Compete for Grants

Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of SciVal Funding, a comprehensive funding intelligence solution for U.S. research institutions. The platform helps researchers locate the most appropriate grant opportunities in order to maximize their potential to receive funding
The Chronicle

On eve of Phila. visit, education secretary urges longer school day

"Six hours a day just doesn't cut it," said Duncan, who comes to town today to tour two schools and meet with local education officials. "Our school calendar's based on a 19th-century agrarian economy. I'm sure there weren't too many kids in Philadelphia working in their parents' fields this summer."
Philly.com

Academic Freedom Examined

In a recent article titled "Academic Freedom: A realistic appraisal," Phillip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education, said issues arising from the changing academic and technological environment have called the understanding of academic freedom into question
The Heights Boston College, Boston, MA

Purpose Of Education In Question

What is the worth of a college graduate to society? According to vice president of student affairs Patrick Rombalski and other academics, the shifting answer to this question has recently eroded the public's faith in the nation's system of higher education. The concern is that American higher education has turned into a production company for money-makers in our consumerist culture, not civic minded citizens,
The Heights Boston College, Boston, MA

University officials fight to reinstate MAP

Roosevelt University President Chuck Middleton has been teaming up with other university presidents in discussing a solution to what has the potential to be a crisis for many college students. According to the Federation of Illinois Independent Colleges and Universities - a statewide group of universities and colleges that represent public policy of higher education - 137,000 Illinois resident students depend on MAP grants for tuition assistance.
Torch - Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

SNC Saving Green by "Going Green"

The facilities department is working toward making SNC a more "green" campus in order to protect the environment and help save the college money. Top plans include installing environmentally-friendly light fixtures in the Pennings Activity Center parking lot, next to Madeline/Lorraine Hall.
St. Norbert Times

More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation

Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe
The Associated Press

More than 800 students have reported H1N1 symptoms since September 4th

Health officials confirmed that more than 800 students and more than 30 university employees had self-reported H1N1 symptoms, using either the self-reporting Web site or physically to CSU's Health Network.
The 845 students who have reported flu-like symptoms, a total recorded since the self-reporting flu function was activated on RAMweb Sept.
Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University, CO

Education best way to combat spread of H1N1

"The more informed parents are about H1N1, swine flu, the more comfortable they can feel about their child’s health and well being." That’s what the staff at the Caldwell County Schools’ Tiger Clinic and Tiger Pride clinic say. Just this week, staff members sent home brochures with every child in the Caldwell District outlining ways to “fight the flu,” both seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1.
Times Leader

Top honour for Langho Science Teacher

A teacher from the Ribble Valley has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Biology. Mr Alan Hughes-Gooding, of Rogersfield, Langho, who is Head of Science at St Wilfrid's CE High School, Blackburn
Clitheroe Advertiser

Student Art Exhibit from Chesterfield, Virginia to be displayed at U.S. Department

The U.S. Department of Education introduced art created by 37 students from Chesterfield County, Va. schools today in a ceremony welcoming the students and their art at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Education
Media Newswire

Letters: Teachers, remember parents are counting on you

Teachers, remember parents are counting on you Nicole Smith - Colorado Springs I agree with most of the points that commentary writer Patrick Welsh presented in Tuesday's Forum piece, 'A school year playbook
USA Today

Negotiating the Decorum Of Back-to-School Night

On the evening of our high school graduation, our mother finally felt liberated to talk about being a parent. Among other things, she revealed how much she disliked back-to-school night because 'they
Washington Post

The School Issue - Junior High - Coming Out in Middle School ...

How to Remake Education (September 27, 2009) ... It is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or Glsen — not “Educators” Network. ...
Magazine

South African Children Push for Better Schools

Children are taking into their own hands responsibility for trying to reform the education system.
NY Times

Scholars Study Springsteen During Weekend Event

Fellow blue-collar rocker Joe Grushecky sheepishly admitted taking a sick day from his regular job as a special education teacher to ...
The Associated Press

Obama Criticizes Banks Over Student Loan Subsidies

President Obama sharply criticized the nation’s largest banks for trying to stop legislation that would overhaul federal student loan programs.
The Caucus

The University’s Crisis of Purpose

The world economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama will change the future of higher education. Even as universities, both public and private, face unanticipated financial constraints, the president has called on them to assist in solving problems from health care delivery to climate change to economic recovery.
NY Times

College Officials Brace for Hit From Economy

The talk at an annual gathering of college admissions officers and high school counselors in Baltimore always seemed to circle around to one subject: the economy.
The Choice Blog: Day-by-Day

How to Remake Education

The single biggest problem in American education is that no one agrees on why we educate. Faced with this lack of consensus, policy makers define good education as higher test scores. But higher test scores are not a definition of good education. Students can get higher scores in reading and mathematics yet remain completely ignorant of science, the arts, civics, history, literature and foreign languages.
NY Times

Study: Making Financial Aid Process Easier Opens Up Access To Higher Education

For years, studies have shown that young people from low-income households across North America are less likely to apply to college or university than peers from higher-income families. Now, a groundbreaking new study shows the solution may be as simple as helping students with the financial aid process.
Inquisitr

Dragon Peter Jones on unlocking the potential of future entrepreneurs

Dragons Den tycoon Peter Jones, who based the trial for his National Enterprise Academy in Bucks, explains why he believes so strongly in the need to teach budding entrepreneurs real-life business skills.
Bucks Herald

Southern Maryland High Schools Meet HSA Standards

Southern Maryland's classes of 2009 met the state's testing requirements as part of the first students required by Maryland to pass the High School Assessment exams to graduate. The High School Assessment
Washington Post

Issues That Matter to You: Education

Both candidates for Virginia governor say they would improve education by increasing teacher salaries, encouraging the creation of new charter schools and preparing more students for a technology-driven
Washington Post

Fact Checker: How Much Do Va. Schools Spend on Teaching?

Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell says Virginia needs to pony up and increase the amount it spends in public school classrooms, arguing that administrative offices get far too much
Washington Post

Clark will miss Basset

When John Bassett took me on a tour of the campus of Clark University recently, I had no idea that he was going to step down from the presidency of the school any time soon. He seemed very much at home
Worcester Telegram & Gazette