WEEKEND READING: Catching Up On The Past Few Days
Year Up Program Prepares At-Risk Youth to Thrive in Corporate Culture PBS
The
Year Up program aims to alleviate the 30 percent unemployment rate
among urban youth by giving at-risk young adults lessons in job skills
and corporate culture.
Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool NPR
The Blue School — at up to $27,000 a year —
is an experiment to help kids explore "divergent thinking."
Wanted: More science and math teachers in the US
Christian Science Monitor
School officials hope financial and training incentives will help fill the need for 200,000 new teachers.
Teachers use blogs to forge new links with students, parents Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Some
North Texas teachers’ blog posts are direct and to the point. Others are feel-good updates on
personal lives.
The Parent-Teacher Talk Gains a New Participant NYT
Student-led
conferences are gaining ground at elementary and middle schools
nationwide, in part because of the rapidly shifting demographics at
public schools.
Workers' Paradise The New Republic
Even in a city known for its strivers, his appointees seem to be a disproportionately intense bunch.
Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati The Independent
When
it comes to science, Barack Obama is no better than many of us. Today
he joins the list of shame of those in public life who made
scientifically unsupportable statements in 2008.
Why Are Spanish Schools So Behind? National Public Radio
Spanish
schoolchildren have consistently ranked near the bottom in comparisons
of reading, math and science skills with those of other industrialized
countries. Lately that's proving extremely problematic.
"All Things Considered" thank you earns teacher some publicity Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The discussion was on giving charitable
donations online and Gallaga was asked if that was a more impersonal
way of giving.
Two districts left behind by error, state says Wahoo Newspaper
The
information the department released Monday represents an important
determination about how schools rate according to No Child Left Behind.
More schools left behind Omaha World-Herald, NE
Across Nebraska, 41 public schools —
up from 24 last year — have been designated as needing academic
improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Cuts Imperil a Real High School Musical NYT
Amid
state and city budget cuts, the bright lights have dimmed at Fiorello
H. La Guardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — the
school of “Fame” fame.