California Universities Will Cut Enrollment Unless State Increases Money
11/19/2008 2:21:45 AM
Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Head of Teachers’ Union Offers to Talk on Tenure and Merit Pay
11/18/2008 1:53:29 AM
A frail economy prompted a gesture of compromise from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
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James Armsey Dies at 90; Oversaw College Grants
11/19/2008 12:23:24 AM
As a Ford Foundation executive, Mr. Armsey directed more than $350 million in grants to universities in the 1960s while prompting the foundation to deny grants to segregated universities.
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Study Abroad Flourishes, With China a Hot Spot
11/17/2008 1:44:26 AM
The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent last year, according to a new report.
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Presidents’ Pay Rises Faster at Public Universities Than Private Ones, Survey Finds
11/17/2008 1:44:36 AM
The president of Suffolk University in Boston received a $2.8 million pay package in 2006-7, while the president of Ohio State University was compensated with $1.3 million a year.
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Cuomo Investigating Colleges’ Deals With Health Insurers
11/17/2008 2:25:22 AM
The investigation by the attorney general appears to be focused on the adequacy of disclosure of policy terms and costs to students.
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News Analysis: Letter Grades Look Simple, but Realities Are Complex
11/16/2008 4:48:45 AM
The A-through-F grading system for New York City schools is billed as a public information tool, but the grades can obscure salient information about schools.
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Parents’ Night With the President
11/17/2008 2:50:19 PM
Washington’s prestigious private schools are competing to have the Obama girls within their halls of power.
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Enrollment Surges in Quick Prep Courses
11/15/2008 8:27:10 AM
In these shaky economic times, more students are skipping a degree and heading straight for the colleges’ noncredit training and certification programs.
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I. Bernard Weinstein, Who Studied Causes of Cancer, Dies at 78
11/16/2008 5:57:23 AM
Dr. Weinstein was a researcher at Columbia University who advanced the study of how pollutants and other environmental factors can cause cancer.
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Dallas Schools Used False Hiring Data
11/15/2008 1:32:10 AM
Eager to hire teachers for bilingual programs, the Dallas public school system assigned fake Social Security numbers to newly hired foreigners, an internal investigation found.
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Teachers Win Bonuses at High-Need Schools
11/15/2008 1:05:15 AM
Teachers at 33 high-need secondary schools across New York City will receive bonuses of several thousand dollars each as a reward for student gains on school report cards.
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Plan to Centralize Choice of Kindergarten Is Ended
11/14/2008 2:35:38 PM
Drawing protests, the Eduction Department will abandon its plan and require all schools to follow the same admission rules.
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A School Chief Takes On Tenure, Stirring a Fight
11/13/2008 12:54:46 PM
The Washington, D.C., school chancellor has proposed spectacular raises for teachers willing to give up tenure.
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Dartmouth Junior Wins County Election
11/13/2008 2:38:07 PM
Vanessa Sievers was not content to wait tables or make coffee as a side job. Instead she ran for treasurer of Grafton County, N.H., and won.
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Women Gain in Education but Not Power, Study Finds
11/13/2008 2:16:42 AM
A study found that women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, though their access to education and health care is nearly equal.
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Most City High Schools Improved This Year
11/13/2008 11:56:23 AM
More than 83 percent of New York City’s high schools received a grade of A or B on the Bloomberg administration’s contentious report cards.
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Schools See Pain Ahead if the State Cuts Aid
11/13/2008 1:45:45 AM
Under the governor’s proposal, school districts across the state could face staff reductions, larger class sizes and fewer extracurricular programs.
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School District Tries to Lure Asian Parents
11/12/2008 2:21:20 PM
In Jericho, N.Y., the high school’s new diversity has revealed a cultural chasm over the meaning of parental involvement.
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Applications Surge for Courses at CUNY’s 2-Year Colleges
11/11/2008 2:32:20 PM
In September and October, CUNY colleges received 15 percent more applicants than all of last year.
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Colleges Struggle to Preserve Financial Aid
11/11/2008 1:34:40 AM
With the financial markets in crisis, the days of swelling educational endowments and plentiful financial aid are over.
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Training to Lead Nonprofits
11/11/2008 1:29:29 AM
Members of “Gen Y” have sparked a surge in nonprofit management and leadership courses at colleges and universities around the country.
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Groups ‘Party for a Cause’ to Help Charities
11/11/2008 2:17:50 PM
An annual event that has raised more than $40,000 for Heal the Bay, a nonprofit organization devoted to cleaning up the beaches of Southern California.
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Finding Similarities Among the Differences
11/11/2008 1:17:36 AM
A program brings together high school students of different faiths and encourages cooperation on community service projects.
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City Is Cited for Insufficient Safeguards at School Campus Being Built on Brownfield
11/8/2008 10:48:21 PM
A judge has ruled that city officials violated state environmental law when they began building a school complex on a contaminated site in the South Bronx.
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Jersey | Bayonne: In Bayonne, Students Stake Nature’s Claim With Oysters
11/10/2008 9:09:17 AM
Teaching eighth graders about the natural world in the dense corners of New Jersey where it seems in shortest supply.
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Education | Greenwich: District Regroups in Seeking New Leader
11/8/2008 8:24:47 PM
Board of Education in Greenwich has begun work on a search process to replace the departing superintendent, Betty J. Sternberg.
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Tough Times Strain Colleges Rich and Poor
11/10/2008 4:24:47 PM
Universities are freezing hiring and postponing construction projects as endowments shrink and states cut their financing.
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Racial Imbalance Persists at Elite Public Schools
11/10/2008 5:11:27 PM
Asian and white eighth graders in the city are outpacing their black and Hispanic peers on an admissions test.
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U.S. Buying More Loans to Students
11/10/2008 4:50:33 PM
The government will expand purchases of the student loans it backs to head off a potential shortfall going into the next school year.
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Op-Ed Contributor: The Test Passes, Colleges Fail
11/18/2008 12:36:25 AM
College administrators who really seek to understand the value of the SAT would do well to learn from the varied experiences of New York’s state university campuses.
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City Room: Ask About After-School Programs
11/11/2008 4:08:38 AM
Lucy N. Friedman, the president of the nonprofit After-School Corporation, will be answering selected readers’ questions.
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