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school stories: 81 news summaries

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 Playtime Teaches Kids 
 'Executive Function' 

Emphasis on developing 'executive function' helps control behavior

Apr 8, 09 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Preschool teachers are adopting new techniques to control students’ behavior that focus on impulse control, the Wall Street Journal reports. Seeking to counter a growing trend in rowdiness among young students, progressive curricula involve structured daily playtime during which kids take an imaginary trip to a pretend destination. Each plays... More »

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education • children • behavior • school • student • anti social behavior • preschool • students

(AP) - The bloated Red River briefly breached a dike early today, pouring water into a school campus in Fargo, ND. The mayor called it a "wakeup call" for a city that needs to be vigilant for weaknesses in levees that could give way at any time. "The campus is... More »

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school • flood • North Dakota • natural disaster • Fargo • levees • Midwest floods

 Smarties 
 'Smokers' 
 Stressing 
 Schools 

Exhaling crushed candies looks like cigarette smoking

Mar 20, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parents and school officials are sweating over a new kids’ craze: “smoking” Smarties candies, the Wall Street Journal reports. Children crush the sugary discs into a powder in their wrapper, dump the powder into their mouths, and, in a move eerily reminiscent of cigarette smokers, exhale a cloud of... More »

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smoking • children • parents • school • candy • fads

(Newser) - For the first time in years, students at George Mason University in Virginia are at odds over their homecoming queen—because he's a drag queen, the Washington Post reports. Senior Ryan Allen entered the competition as a lark, taking the floor at last weekend's basketball game against Northeastern in zebra-print... More »

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school • Drag Queen • George Mason University • homosexual

 Ice Shuts School, 
 Baffles Obama Girls 

Chicago natives have played in worse weather, prez says

Jan 28, 09 12:37 PM CST
(Newser) - The ice storm plowing through Washington has many grown-ups wary of stepping outside, but it hasn’t fazed the first daughters, Politico reports. The Midwesterners were unimpressed that their school closed, President Obama said today, noting that Chicago schools never close. “My 7-year-old pointed out that in Chicago you’... More »

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Barack Obama • weather • Washington DC • school • ice storm • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • President Obama • Sidwell Friends School • school closing

 $150B Stimulus to Double 
 Education Budget 

$150B spending expected to permanently expand government's role in education

Jan 28, 09 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The stimulus plan before Congress today more than doubles the Department of Education's budget, reports the New York Times. An unprecedented extra $150 billion in federal aid would provide funds for nearly every aspect of education, from school construction to college grants. Opponents and backers alike agree that the... More »

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education • student loans • Department of Education • school • Pell grants • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • Arne Duncan

Schools Cutting Cursive
as Computers Prevail

Penmanship takes a backseat to science, reading instruction

Jan 26, 09 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Cursive may become a thing of the past as schools pressed for time focus their attention on science and reading, the Indianapolis Star reports. Cursive is still widely taught, but the emphasis has shifted from writing beautifully to writing efficiently as wider use of computers has also edged out cursive’... More »

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education • technology • science • school • classroom • handwriting • typing

Israel Pummels Gaza
Before Ceasefire Vote

2 children killed in UN school shelter: Palestinians

Jan 17, 09 8:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel launched 50 air strikes on Gaza last night ahead of a Cabinet vote on a unilateral ceasefire, the BBC reports. A tank shell hit a UN school, killing at least two children among hundreds of people who had taken refuge there, Palestinians say; Israel says it’s looking into... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • school • truce • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

Unbowed by
Attack, Afghan Girls Return
to School

School thrives despite horrific assault

Jan 14, 09 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Last November in Kandahar, the southern Afghan city in the grip of the Taliban, 15 students and teachers were sprayed with acid on their way to a girls' school. The attack was the culmination of a Taliban-supported campaign to keep women from education, but the girls and their teachers have... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • school • Kandahar • girls • students • acid

ANALYSIS

Education at Heart of Obama Stimulus Plan

$140B in 2-year plan would take other pressures off states

Jan 13, 09 3:43 PM CST
(Newser) - In its current form, Barack Obama’s 2-year economic stimulus plan—currently pegged at $775 billion—will channel some $140 billion to education, Politico reports. As Congress hammers out its plan, changes are likely, but education and Medicaid look set to be major beneficiaries. States will see major block grants,... More »

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education • Barack Obama • Congress • school • Medicaid • Pell grants • economic stimulus package

Taliban Exact Revenge on Pakistani Town That Stood Up

Car bombing punishes crackdown on militants

Dec 29, 08 8:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A few months ago, villagers in a Pakistani town killed six Taliban fighters who had bound and killed local police; yesterday, the Taliban retaliated, targeting the town of Shalbandi with a suicide car bomb that killed more than 30. The explosion rocked a school that was holding a vote to... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • suicide bomber • school • car bomb • militant • retaliation • polling places • village

Pakistani Taliban Vow
to Blow Up Girls' Schools

Extremists also ban polio vaccines; order women to cover up

Dec 26, 08 4:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat region have threatened to blow up schools and kill schoolgirls if female education isn't halted by next month, reports the Times of London. The extremists have already destroyed 125 schools for girls in the region this year. Women have been warned not to set foot... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • school • Islamic extremists • Islamic extremism • Swat • North West Frontier Province

Rangel Saved Loophole that Aided $1M Donor

Oil-drilling company helped finance NY rep's legacy project

Nov 25, 08 11:27 AM CST
(Newser) - As questions swirl over the methods Charles Rangel used to raise funds for a school in his name, a New York Times investigation finds that the New York representative and chair of the House Ways and Means committee fought to save a tax loophole that benefited one of the school's... More »

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school • Charles Rangel • corporate tax • loopholes • political scandal • fundraising • tax shelter

GLOSSIES

 A Big Win for 
 Black Nerds  

Scorn for 'thinking they're white' long an obstacle

Nov 11, 08 3:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama provides a boost for black educational achievement that is much more powerful than any policy. His bookish example may throw a lifeline to black nerds who, scorned for "acting white," feel pressure to slack academically to stay cool, John McWhorter writes in New York. Research shows... More »

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education • Barack Obama • school • grades • nerdiness • African-Americans • President Obama

(Newser) - The death toll in the Haitian school collapse has risen to 75, the AP reports. The mayor of the Port-au-Prince suburb where it occurred said 17 dead students have been found so far today. Another 80 are being treated for injuries, many of them serious, and hundreds more children could... More »

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construction • Haiti • school • collapse • rescue • survivors • search • building • disaster

 Haiti School Collapse 
 Kills At Least 30 

Poor repair job, not recent rains, doomed building, mayor says

Nov 7, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not... More »

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Brazil • Haiti • Chile • school • Red Cross • collapse • Ecuador • Dominican Republic • Doctors Without Borders • engineering • disaster

Schools Accused of Abusing Time-Out Rooms

Experts say seclusion rooms being misused to discipline troubled kids

Oct 18, 08 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The practice of locking misbehaving children in school "time-out rooms" is troubling a growing number of parents and educators, the AP reports. The rooms—often tiny converted storage spaces—are meant to give kids a place to calm down, but experts say they are being used instead to discipline... More »

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education • autism • children • school • discipline • classroom

With Harvard's Help, Good Grades Pay Off in Chicago

System rewards as much as $50 for A's—and half depends on graduation

Oct 17, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago public high schools are paying students for good grades under a program funded partly by Harvard University, the Tribune reports. Freshmen get $50 for A’s, $35 for B’s and $20 for C’s, with half their earnings held until they graduate. Some 20 other Chicago-area schools, encompassing... More »

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education • high school • Chicago • money • school • grades • payments

Brits Launch Classroom 'Terror Watch'

Teachers asked
to watch out for
extremist students

Oct 8, 08 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - British teachers will be asked to monitor student behavior and report any suspected extremists to police under new government guidelines, the Guardian reports. A "tool kit" for teachers sets out how they should conduct classroom debates to smoke out any possible Islamic extremist  or far-right racist views across all... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • British terror attacks • school • Islamic extremists • Britain • teacher • students

 Prof Argues for Looser Spelling 

English-speaking pupils hamstrung by non-phonetic words, apostrophes

Sep 8, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A British academic argues that English-speaking schoolchildren waste time learning the peculiarities of spelling, and should be given more freedom to spell phonetically, the Times of London reports. Children studying in languages with more phonetic writing systems, like Finnish or Italian, don’t need to waste classroom time on spelling,... More »

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education • United Kingdom • school • Britain • spelling • spelling bee

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