AltWeeklies Wire
Did the University of Oregon Fire a Professor for Alleging Racism?new
University of Oregon professor Paula Rogers filed a grievance alleging racism on the part of another faculty member, and she says it cost her the job in 2005. Now she has filed a $500,000 lawsuit in state and federal courts alleging racism and retaliation by the UO.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-22-2009 |
Education
The Teaching Responsible Earth Education Programnew
An eco-minded educational program introduces inner-city New Orleans kids to the natural world.
Monkey Business: The Louisiana Science Education Actnew
Louisiana's Science Education Act is touted as promoting "critical thinking skills," but what it really does is allow teachers to use materials that haven't been approved by the state's Department of Education to question the validity of evolution. Enactment of the law is costing the state money and could lead to a lawsuit.
Sex Ed in Texas Gets an 'F'new
In "Just Say Don't Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools," researchers David Wiley and Kelly Wilson of Texas State University took a comprehensive look at how sexuality is taught in Texas public schools. The short answer: It isn't really.
Dallas Observer |
Patrick Williams |
03-02-2009 |
Education
A Well-Meaning Bill Would Strengthen Anti-Bullying Rules in Oregon Schoolsnew
A new bill in the Oregon Legislature would require that public schools report to state officials what groups of students are being targeted by bullies.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
02-25-2009 |
Education
Ferndale School Fight Spills Over Into Local Businessesnew
A civil rights group protesting what it calls "Jim Crow-style segregation" has taken its campaign to local merchants during the last several weeks. But when merchants didn't want to post literature, the group started picketing and advocating boycotts against them.
Metro Times |
Metro Times Staff |
02-17-2009 |
Education
Charter Schools Long to Find a Home in Dormant St. Louis Classroomsnew
St. Louis charter-school advocates say that a so-called deed restriction — which also bars medical clinics, adult entertainment venues and taverns from taking over city school properties — far exceeds efforts by other cities to block charter schools' growth.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-13-2009 |
Education
Vegas Groups Are Working to Continue the Education of Homeless Childrennew
Las Vegas' Title One HOPE provides students with backpacks, school supplies, bus tokens or transportation and outreach information, as well as free breakfast and lunch at school.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Stacy J. Willis |
02-12-2009 |
Education
Pro-Evolution Forces Take an Unexpected Win at the Texas Board of Educationnew
The recent debate about how evolution should be taught in public schools revealed that the 15-member Texas State Board of Education is not, after all, necessarily dominated by right-wing religious fundamentalists.
Dallas Observer |
Kimberly Thorpe |
02-02-2009 |
Education
Not As Many Apply to UCSBnew
On the heels of the University of California’s announcement that it would be cutting freshman enrollment for the 2009-10 school year by 2,300 students, UCSB officials announced that the school received 54,758 applications for enrollment this coming fall.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Drew Mackie |
02-02-2009 |
Education
Considering a Radical Education Strategy's Potential in Baltimorenew
The model of the Harlem Children's Zone represents a growing social scientific consensus on the nature and seeming perpetuity of urban poverty. The "Zone" is a 97-block area in Harlem that has been turned into a European-style social democracy, a cradle-to-college conveyor belt to the American middle-class for Harlem kids.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
01-27-2009 |
Education
Pasadena College Board Bucks the School’s President, Hoping to Find Alternatives to Closurenew
The board of directors of Pacific Oaks College, which was considering closing the 63-year-old Pasadena institution, has apparently bucked the will of its president in taking two major steps to save the school during a marathon meeting last Thursday.
Pasadena Weekly |
Marc B. Haefele |
01-26-2009 |
Education
An Oakland Teacher Drops In Unannounced at the Homes of Underperforming Studentsnew
Primarily intended to encourage parental involvement, English teacher Channing Woodsum's visits offer him a glimpse into students' living conditions, particularly notable in a school where many children come from communities plagued by violence and poverty.
East Bay Express |
Matthew Green |
01-23-2009 |
Education
On American Campuses, Esperanto is an Extracurricular Languagenew
A recent Tuesday night meeting of the MIT Esperanto Club attracted four bookish-looking guys, chatting confidently in a language that sounds not unlike some weird mashed-up version of the Romances, with a dash of something possibly Slavic.
Boston Phoenix |
Eva Wolchover |
01-12-2009 |
Education
Single-Sex Schools Test the Limits of Equal Opportunity in Public Educationnew
New Village Charter High is part of a national mini-boom in single-sex public education. Many of the single-sex schools across the nation have opened in the past three years, thanks to federal regulations that have effectively loosened non-discrimination laws that had often barred their operation.
Pasadena Weekly |
Elizabeth Zwerling |
01-12-2009 |
Education
