Thursday, March 11, 2010

Education

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Health Care and Student Loan Programs Collide

Top Democrats are fighting to attach the proposed overhaul of student loan programs to health care reform.

Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts

Proposed changes to the state’s social studies curriculum would portray conservatives in a more positive light.

Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered

House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.

Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools

The Board of Education in Kansas City, Mo., accepted a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink its school system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.

Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s checkerboard of locally written standards.

Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing

Principals in Harlem are using firms to help lure students with Web sites, brochures and open houses.

Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says

A Senate panel learned that more students in more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the United States.

Another Rise in City Pupils Graduating in Four Years

For the fifth consecutive year, the rate of students finishing on time increased, hitting 59 percent.

After Victory Over Disney, Group Loses Its Lease

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood was evicted after pressuring the Walt Disney Company into offering refunds to buyers of its Baby Einstein videos.

Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to say an office “has not been as vigilant as it should have been” on discrimination.

College Acts to Disregard Fiscal Need in Admissions

As some schools favor applicants who do not require financial aid, Hamilton College has decided to swim against that tide.

Multimedia

Interactive Feature: Top of Their Class

Portraits of seven New York City high school valedictorians, with audio, photos and text from their graduation speeches.

Slide Show: Revisiting a Purge of Teachers

A lawsuit seeks to reopen documents on 1,150 New York City teachers who were investigated during the anti-Communist fervor of the 1950s. More than 370 were ousted from their jobs.

Interactive: College Cost Calculator

An interactive tool to estimate the future cost of higher education.

Interactive Map: New to English

Students learning English are among the nation’s fastest-growing group of students.

Room for Debate

College Degrees Without Going to Class

Are online courses as educationally effective as face-to-face instruction?

I.H.T. Special Report: International Education
Special Report: International Education

M.B.A.’s Guide Socially Concerned Entrepreneurs

Business school students have turned toward courses in social entrepreneurship.

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