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Web Lets Parents Peek Into School Day

New online tools to monitor lunches, grades, attendance

Sep 6, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents are taking advantage of new web tools to monitor their children’s activities at school, the Los Angeles Times reports. A California program set to debut next year will allow doting parents to keep an eye on what kids buy for lunch, and let school officials know about... More »

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Internet • California • parenting • children • school • surveillance • Web apps

Opinion

Teenagers Have Rights, Too

Schools shouldn't
use high court
ruling to silence
'disruptive' students

Jul 12, 08 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Teenagers have constitutional rights." That shouldn’t be controversial, but several schools are in court arguing that the First Amendment doesn't apply to students, writes Frank LoMonte in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Morse v. Frederick set a precedent last year, when Supreme Court judges ruled that students could... More »

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education • First Amendment • school • US Supreme Court • freedom of speech

 Chinese
 School-Collapse
 Critic Busted as Spy 

Activist detained after trying to help bereaved parents

Jul 11, 08 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An activist who tried to help bereaved Sichuan parents get answers about why so many schools collapsed in May's earthquake has been arrested, the New York Times reports. Huang Qi was taken away by plainclothes police after posting information about the parents on his website. He has been accused of... More »

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China • school • Chinese officials • human rights activists • Sichuan province • China earthquake

Teacher
Who Branded Students Fired

He slammed evolution, burned crosses onto 8th-graders' arms

Jun 21, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Ohio school board has voted unanimously to fire a science teacher who used an electrostatic device to brand 8th-graders with a cross, the AP reports. Science teacher John Freshwater, who says the marks were simply Xs, had been in trouble with the board before for teaching creationism, slamming evolution... More »

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creationism • school • branding • science education • middle school • teacher

Dutch Hope US Model Will Integrate Schools

Plan was used during American civil rights movement

Jun 19, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch leaders believe an integration program honed during the American civil rights movement can curb the racial and class divisions rampant in Amsterdam’s classrooms. Waves of immigrants have swept into the Netherlands, but they haven’t always mixed successfully with native Dutch, reports the Christian Science Monitor.... More »

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race • parents • Netherlands • school • Amsterdam • segregation • integration • Dutch government

Family Sues School in NY Bully Battle

Boy posted video on YouTube urging teens to stop violence

Jun 15, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bullied at school, a Long Island teenager posted an anti-violence video on YouTube that racked up more than 15,000 hits. The 7-minute montage by Patrick Kohlmann, 13, urges kids to stop fighting, but it didn't solve his problem. Now Patrick's parents are suing the school for failing to help... More »

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YouTube • school • death threats • lawsuit • school violence

 Chinese Police Drag 
 Parents From Protest 

100 called for lawsuit over poorly-built schools

Jun 3, 08 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese police cracked down on parents protesting today over poorly-constructed schools they say killed their children in last month’s earthquake, the AP reports. Protesters had been chanting “we want to sue” before police dragged them down the street away from a courthouse, with some yelling for an explanation.... More »

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China • police • construction • protests • school • earthquake

 China Silences
 Media on
 School Collapses 

Negative press is hurting shining reviews of relief effort

Jun 2, 08 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - China has called on domestic media to quit reporting on widespread school collapses in the Sichuan earthquake, the Financial Times reports. Some parents hold the government accountable for poor construction they say claimed thousands of children’s lives, and the furor has hurt the positive reviews of China’s response... More »

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China • school • collapse • earthquake • media coverage • Sichuan province

Poorly Built Schools Stood No Chance in Earthquake

Up to 10K kids died; parents blame gov't

May 25, 08 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - As a massive earthquake shook Sichuan province, subpar construction turned many Chinese schoolrooms into the mass graves of as many as 10,000 children, the New York Times reports, and grieving parents are pointing fingers at Beijing. The government, aware of the problem, had issued warnings on school safety in... More »

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China • construction • children • school • natural disaster • student • earthquake • building • Sichuan province

 Bereaved Parents Question 
 Quake School Safety 

Outrage centers on public buildings that survived

May 23, 08 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 7,000 schools were destroyed in the Chinese earthquake, and parents want answers. In particular, they want to know why so many nearby government buildings survived while schoolchildren died, the Washington Post reports. “This building is totally a ‘bad tofu’ project,” said one grieving mother.... More »

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China • construction • school • earthquake • China earthquake

 The Nation's Best High Schools 

Newsweek's new criteria value APs over grades

May 20, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rather than GPAs or graduation rates, new research suggests, participation in AP and IB programs is the best indicator of academic success in college, even if the student does not do well in the advanced classes. In light of that, Newsweek presents the nation’s 100 best public high schools,... More »

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high school • Newsweek • list • school • college preparation

Young Teachers Finding Big Trouble Online

Facebook, MySpace pages test boundaries between public, private

Apr 28, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Questionable postings and photos on social-networking web pages are becoming an issue with younger US teachers, the Washington Post reports, raising questions about where to draw a line between private expression and standards for public employees. A case in point is a substitute special-education teacher whose page includes a so-called... More »

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education • social networking • MySpace • Facebook • school • teacher

School Supers
Draw Big Bucks,
Bigger Perks

Turnaround experts find profitable niche in failing school districts

Mar 31, 08 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Teachers aren't living in luxury, but some school superintendents are, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some are pulling in $325,000 a year, plus multi-million-dollar consulting budgets to restructure impoverished, underperforming public school systems. The Monitor calls them "central office rock stars," a product of the No Child... More »

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education • school • school districts • No Child Left Behind • public schools • superintendent • school board • teacher

In Spain, Parents Divorce to Get Kids Into Top Schools

Points system leads to bogus split-ups

Mar 19, 08 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Spanish couples will do anything to get their kids into top schools—including break up, the Guardian reports. Thanks to a point-based admissions system that favors children of single parents, Spain has seen a staggering spike in divorces, suspiciously filed just ahead of the upcoming application deadline. Judges think... More »

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education • divorce • Spain • school • private schools

 Celebrate π, It's 3/14! 

Classrooms everywhere fete a most mathematical holiday

Mar 14, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Math lovers, rejoice, for today is Pi Day, celebrated in classrooms around the country—preferably at 1:59, which, on 3/14, nearly matches 3.14159, the famed irrational number’s first six digits. “What’s fun about pi is that everyone knows the number,” a math professor tells... More »

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school • Princeton • University of Tokyo • mathematics • pi • mathematicians • Yasumasa Kanada • Ingrid Daubechies • David Bailey • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • C.A. Waldo • King Solomon • Temple of Jerusalem • John von Neumann • Institute for Advanced Study

Teachers Rip UK Iraq Lessons as 'Propaganda'

School proposal ignores casualties, 'rewrites history'

Mar 14, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a row has erupted in Britain over a controversial school lesson plan about the conflict drawn up by the country's defense ministry. The National Union of Teachers is up in arms over the proposal and is threatening a boycott over what... More »

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Iraq • propaganda • United Kingdom • school • history • school lessons • teacher

Harry Charms Students Into Success

Boy-wizard theme
helps English school turn scores around

Nov 22, 07 5:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry it is not, but a suburban Nottingham school is using Harry Potter’s magic to get results. Primary students chose JK Rowling’s enchanted novels as their curriculum theme, a system school officials launched to raise lagging test scores. Subjects are laced with... More »

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Harry Potter • JK Rowling • England • school • Nottingham

Recruiters
Pick Top 10
Biz Schools

WSJ's annual rankings come up with some surprising choices

Sep 18, 07 8:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ivy Leaguers and Mormons round out this year's eclectic list of top MBA programs.  To come up with the rankings WSJ and Harris Interactive asked 4,430 recruiters to rank M.B.A. programs on 21 attributes, including leadership potential, and communication skills.  National Rankings:
  1. Dartmouth College
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education • Columbia University • list • UC Berkeley • school • business school • Wake Forest University • Dartmouth • Recruiters • Brigham Young University • Ohio State University • MBA • Indiana University

School Segregation Is Up

Black and Latino children flood public schools, risk receiving "separate and inferior" educations

Aug 30, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - US public schools are more and more divided by race, a trend likely to continue thanks to a June Supreme Court ruling forbidding most local integration efforts, Reuters reports. Many black and Latino children, who now make up 43% of the population, are receiving what a leading civil rights research... More »

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education • race • children • school • civil rights • Segregation

School Bans Tag on Playground

Colorado school bans game in effort decrease schoolyard disputes

Aug 30, 07 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the new term starts next week at a Colorado elementary school, kids won't be chasing each other around the playground. Tag has been banned at Discovery Canyon Campus school, where it was deemed to generate too many injuries and complaints. “It causes a lot of conflict on the... More »

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children • school • bullying • tag • Colorado • elementary school • Discovery Canyon • recess • child development

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