AltWeeklies Wire
Students Dragged Down by Debtnew
More students are going to college, but with tuition fees doubled since 2002 and grants scrapped, it's a tough slog.
The Georgia Straight |
Steve Smysnuik |
04-27-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Schoolhouse Locksnew
Detroit school closures complicate education and the city's revival.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
04-24-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
School Funding is Eating Away at Colorado's Budgetnew
Legislation to fix that -- billed as the linchpin to Gov. Bill Ritter's 10-year education improvement plan -- could be killed before it reaches the House Education Committee.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Naomi Zeveloff |
04-24-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Working Class: It’s Time to Show Trade Schools Respectnew
College fever comes at a high price for a society lacking in vocational skills.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris |
04-18-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Texas Lege Makes Case for Teaching the Bible in High Schoolnew
With help from academia, conservatives shifted the debate from the constitutional issue of church-state separation to whether or not Texas public school children can adequately understand Dante's Inferno or Melville's Moby Dick without knowledge of the Bible.
San Antonio Current |
Vince Leibowitz |
04-12-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
A Law School of Their Ownnew
Social justice programs are changing the legal landscape.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sam Devine |
04-11-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Advocating -- and Protesting -- For City School Moneynew
Algebra Project holds "die-in" to protest board's refusal to support education rally.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jason Torres |
04-10-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
CU Makes Nice and Keeps Allegations Quietnew
Robert Schrier took the University of Colorado to court for academic freedom -- the school settled before a jury could hear the tale.
Tags: Education
Students Not Allowed to Take Tests in Their Native Languagenew
Why that could cause big trouble for some California school districts.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
04-06-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Attack of the Conservative Clones on Academenew
Law would enforce "affirmative action" for right-wing extremists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
03-29-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education, Metropolis
Taking a 'Paige' from the Bush Administrationnew
Portland Public Schools agreed to pay $4,000 to a local writer to pen good-news articles and place them in regional and national publications.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
03-22-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
A Useful Talking Point, but Are the Numbers Reliable?new
A Minnesota professor rides the Gonzales Eight to fame, but there are holes in the research.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
03-22-2007 |
Education
LEAP Aheadnew
Testing of students in Orleans Parish schools will be used to judge the viability of Louisiana's takeover of failing institutions.
Tags: Education
UVA Program for Low-Income Students To Go Nationalnew
The 2-year-old College Guides program places former college students at high schools with low college attendance around the state -- and national education groups have noticed.
C-Ville Weekly |
Meg McEvoy |
03-14-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Mired Universitynew
Myers University, Cleveland's oldest business school, just can't do business.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
03-02-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
