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When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.
Los Angeles – Country music star Tim McGraw made a surprise visit to Grassland Middle School in Tennessee to talk with students about bullying last Friday. According to the Tennessean , the singer spoke about Asher Brown, the 13-year-old Houston boy who shot himself in the head after antigay bullying went unaddressed at his school. “To keep that from happening to their friends, he encouraged the students to speak up if they see bullying behavior, walk away from bad situations and, above all, not to fall into the trap of becoming a bully,” reported the Tennessean
NEW HAVEN — It was well after midnight, and the invitation-only party for Yale University undergraduates was reaching a peak.
A former administrator at St. John’s University accused of embezzling about $1 million from the college in Queens has now been charged with far more lurid crimes: forcing students to clean, cook and act as her personal servants to keep their scholarships
BROCKTON, Mass. — A decade ago, Brockton High School was a case study in failure. Teachers and administrators often voiced the unofficial school motto in hallway chitchat: students have a right to fail if they want.
WASHINGTON — Students enrolled this semester in “Education in Black America” at Howard University got their reward Thursday morning for slogging to campus instead of sleeping in: About 10 minutes into class, singer-songwriter John Legend strode in. No introduction needed
If community colleges were to find all the formerly enrolled students whose academic records qualify them for an associate degree and retroactively award them the credential, then the number of associate degrees awarded in the United States would increase by at least 12%. This compelling projection by the Institute for Higher Education Policy is one of the primary reasons why it is working with the Lumina Foundation for Education to roll out the three-year, $1.3 million Project Win-Win. This initiative will financially support 35 community colleges and four-year institutions in six states — Louisiana , Missouri, New York , Ohio , Virginia and Wisconsin — so they can track down and retroactively award qualified students associate degrees who, for whatever reason, never received one
GRINNELL, Iowa — In order to separate doting parents from their freshman sons, Morehouse College in Atlanta has instituted a formal “Parting Ceremony.” Enlarge This Image Brian C. Frank for The New York Times Boyd Monson, 19, and his father, Ronald Monson, at Grinnell College in Iowa, which holds a ceremony to formalize separation
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Heading to a new university for Fall 2010 and want advice from other students? Looking for housing, textbooks, knowledge about a professor or class, or simply a ticket to the weekend’s big game? Technology companies and your school may have answers on your computer or mobile phone, and it won’t cost a thing — at least not yet.
NEW YORK – Shares of for-profit education companies slid Monday as government data showed that many of their students aren’t repaying school loans, which could imperil the ability of their students to receive federal financial aid, the bulk of the schools’ revenue. Several schools contested the government’s methodology, but that couldn’t stop shares of the companies from tumbling to their lowest points in a year or more. For-profit schools offer a wide range of programs and certificates, from associate’s degrees in the culinary arts at Career Education Corp.’s Le Cordon Bleu to MBA degrees from the Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix