Posts Tagged ‘Security’
PHILADELPHIA — Duong Nghe Ly can’t wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.
AS a Harvard professor who teaches introductory economics, I have the delightful assignment of greeting about 700 first-year students every fall. And this year, I am sending the first of my own children off to college.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their Rhode Island classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance at their persistently troubled high school
SAN JUAN, Texas – When Ruth Garcia’s twins are born in two months, they’ll have all the rights of U.S.
The University of California has appointed an official to manage spending and operations at President Mark G. Yudof’s new private residence, after Mr. Yudof ran up nearly $700,000 in expenses and involved senior university officials in time-consuming personal matters over a rented mansion in the Oakland Hills.
ATLANTA — Early on in Beverly L. Hall’s 11-year tenure as superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, she figured that the academic gains she intended to make with the city’s mostly poor, black students would face skepticism. Related Cheating Inquiry in Atlanta Largely Vindicates Schools (August 3, 2010) Enlarge This Image Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Superintendent Beverly L.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will deliver an education reform speech Thursday morning at the National Urban League’s 100th Anniversary Convention in the nation’s capital.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will deliver an education reform speech Thursday morning at the National Urban League’s 100th Anniversary Convention in the nation’s capital. Obama will discuss how his “Race to the Top” program and other initiatives are driving education reform across the country and focusing the nation on the goal of preparing students for college and careers. Civil rights leaders are openly criticizing the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition, claiming it leaves out many minority students
WASHINGTON — The Educational Testing Service has announced that it is temporarily suspending registration for its tests in Iran , including the popular Test of English as a Foreign Language, in what may be one of the first tangible effects of the new sanctions levied against the country by the international community. Related Times Topic: Iran Experts and Iranian expatriates were appalled, saying that if the sanctions prohibited Iranians from studying abroad, they would hurt precisely the kind of outward-looking young Iranians the West would like to help.
Perhaps there is finally something to deter Chatroulette.com users from their more offensive behavior: University researchers say that users of the popular video-chat site may not be as anonymous, or as private, as they think. In a paper posted online this week, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and McGill University outline three different types of attacks that could be launched against Chatroulette users. Founded just last year by 17-year-old Russian entrepreneur Andrey Ternovskiy, Chatroulette links Web surfers randomly into one-on-one video chat conversations.