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- Mixed Results on Paying City Students to Pass Tests
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 11:18 PM -0700
A program offering up to $1,000 for scoring well on Advanced Placement exams yielded relatively flat results, adding fuel to the debate over how to motivate students. [more]
- Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 11:59 AM -0700
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were...[more]
- City Room: Ask About New York's Charter Schools
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 01:29 AM -0700
This week, James D. Merriman IV, the chief executive of the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, is answering readers' questions. [more]
- 18 New Charter Schools to Open in September, Bloomberg Announces
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 12:44 AM -0700
The new schools — the largest number to open in the city in a single year — will bring the number of charter schools in the city to 78, serving 24,000 students. [more]
- Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-18-2008 09:40 PM -0700
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were...[more]
- A Teachable Moment
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-18-2008 08:47 AM -0700
Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged...[more]
- A Teachable Moment
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-17-2008 03:00 AM -0700
Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged...[more]
- Essay: At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-16-2008 11:09 PM -0700
As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education. [more]
- Environment: Challenging a College to Redesign a Building
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-16-2008 11:04 PM -0700
Students and faculty at Norwalk Community College plan to step up efforts to force a redesign of a health and science center that would abide by more stringent standards for energy efficiency. [more]
- A Taste of Failure Fuels an Appetite for Success at South Korea’s Cram Schools
Category: Education
Publish Date: 08-13-2008 11:49 PM -0700
South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of “a war” and are turning to intense, regimented campuses. [more]
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