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education stories: 214 news summaries

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‘Baby Einstein’ Dumbs Down Toddlers

Videos that claim to jumpstart learning
do the opposite

Aug 7, 07 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The popular “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” video series, intended to fast-track young geniuses, actually have negative educational effects, a new study concludes. Infants who watch them have smaller vocabularies than other children, the Los Angeles Times reports, For every hour per day that 8- to 16-month-olds... More »

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education • television • American Idol • children • baby • infant • Baby Einstein

Muslim Creationists Damn Darwin

Turkish anti-evolution tract
distributed worldwide

Aug 2, 07 6:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Muslim group in Turkey is widely disseminating a 768-page tome that slams evolution and promotes Islam-inflected creationism, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Council of Europe has issued warnings—particularly to schools—against the "Atlas of Creation," which has been published in 80 countries and 59 languages. More »

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education • Islam • evolution • Turkey • creationism • Muslim • Charles Darwin • Council of Europe

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

New teaching, learning styles may spell
an end to lectures

Jul 31, 07 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow... More »

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education • technology • Internet • Web 2.0 • school • college • university • web • Dartmouth • student • professor • mathematics • Texas A&M

House Votes
to Overhaul Student Loans

Increases Pell money, slashes interest rates on federal loans

Jul 12, 07 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The House OKed a major shakeup of student loans yesterday, in a plan that will eliminate $19 billion in subsidies to lending companies and send the cash directly to students. The bill will increase funding for Pell grants and cut the interest rates on all federally-funded loans—assuming it survives... More »

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education • student loans • higher education • loans • college • college student

States Discover, Spend Surpluses

Embarrassment of riches will benefit education, gay rights, or just make tax cuts

Jun 11, 07 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oversized tax collection has left state governments with unexpected funds to dole out, and newly Democratic governments are working some big-government swagger. The Times reports that more than 40 states have deeper coffers than budgeted, and new money is going to local initiatives in education, health care and gay rights—... More »

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education • gay rights • Democrats • taxes • government spending • state governments • state sales tax

EU Universities Could Lose Ground to Asia

Old-world schools hear footsteps from China, India in college rankings

May 21, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier European universities like Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne will fall behind competitors in China and India within 10 years, the EU's education commissioner warns. The Times of London reports underfunding and outmoded curricula could cost the mossier Western schools their international reputations, and international enrollments with them. More »

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China • education • India • European Union • Europe • Asia • higher education • school • university

African Colleges Fail
a Generation

Underfunded and overcrowded, promising universities begin to buckle

May 19, 07 9:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once a beacon of hope for the world's poorest continent, Africa's colleges are collapsing under the weight of too many students and too little cash, the Sunday Times reports. At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, students are packed into overcrowded dorms and classrooms, labs are dilapidated, and qualified teachers... More »

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education • Africa • school • college • Dakar • student

Students Sue for Homework

Apr 10, 07 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four teenage students are suing an antiplagiarism website for the rights to their schoolwork, arguing that they were forced to turn over original work without compensation, the Christian Science Monitor reports. When their school adopted an antiplagiarism service called Turnitin, students were required to submit essays to be stored and... More »

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education • property rights • Turnitin • plagiarism • intellectual property • school • lawsuit

India Short On Skilled Workers

Despite the tech boom, a third of the country
is still illiterate

Apr 9, 07 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why is India short on skilled labor when it's teeming with Ph.D.s? While the staggering growth of its tech industry seems to have put the country in the running for the world’s next superpower, James Surowiecki observes that the Bengal tiger could be made of paper. Thirty... More »

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education • India • globalization • labor • literacy • tech industry

Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

Freedom fosters faith and scholarship

Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan.... More »

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Iraq • education • Islam • America • school • scholarship • University of Delaware • Muslim • Iraq war

NYC Pays Kids To Go to School

Cash bonuses to poor families for attendance, grades, holding jobs

Mar 30, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget gold stars: poor New York City kids who attend class regularly or improve grades will get cash rewards. Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells the New York Times the program, which could net a low-income family up to $5,000 a year, is akin to sales bonuses in the private sector. More »

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education • families • New York City • children • Michael Bloomberg • school

Day Care Kids Learn to Act Up

Study finds preschoolers in day care

Mar 26, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Day care centers enlarge kids' vocabularies--and teach them how to act up, too, says a study that’s followed 1,300 children from birth through 6th grade. Although parental guidance and genes were the strongest predictor of behavior, who attended day care as preschoolers were slightly more likely to be... More »

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education • child care • children • behavior • school • learning • daycare

V-Word Gets
Teens Suspended

"Vagina Monologues" excerpt deemed
too racy for children in audience

Mar 8, 07 2:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Three high school girls in a New York City suburb were suspended for reciting the word "vagina" in an excerpt of the "The Vagina Monologues" during a school open-mic night. Faculty had instructed the 16-year-old honors students to delete the word, in deference to children in the audience,... More »

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education • Eve Ensler • theater • Vagina Monologues • high school • New York • school

Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students

Record honchos hit college campuses
to make the music stop

Mar 5, 07 10:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The recording industry is bringing out the big guns in its battle to stop illegal music downloads, threatening to sue hundreds of college students each month if they don't stop swapping swiped tunes. The kids need to be taught some download etiquette, says RIAA President Cary Sherman. "Remember... More »

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education • music • Internet • music industry • music downloads • Cary Sherman • Recording Industry Association of America • network • file sharing • college • college student

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