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Filling Superman Joel Klein’s Shoes (The Daily Beast)

Published on November 10, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – In a jaw-dropping appointment, Hearst exec Cathie Black will succeed New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, education reform rock star. Lloyd Grove talks to Klein about the challenges she faces

School Official Wants Gays Dead (The Advocate)

Published on October 27, 2010 By rohit

Los Angeles – While schools across the country are taking action against bullying and suicide, a board member of an Arkansas school district is using his Facebook page to encourage “queers” and “fags” to kill themselves. Clint McCance is a board member in the Midland school district in western Arkansas.

Obama hits GOP proposal to cut education spending (AP)

Published on October 9, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON – Offering voters a reason to keep Democrats in power on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama says Republicans would cut education spending and put the country’s economic future at risk if they had their way. A quality education is paramount, Obama said. He suggested that federal spending on education is one area where he would not compromise

‘Waiting for "Superman" ‘: A simplistic view of education reform? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on September 25, 2010 By

“Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” opening Friday in New York and Los Angeles, has generated buzz for months in education circles. Everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates is celebrating the documentary, which tells the emotional stories of five students who have entered lotteries to get into successful public charter schools. The film also offers a broad-brush indictment of America’s school system and teachers unions, prompting praise from reform advocates

Dad who stormed bus apologizes for some actions (AP)

Published on September 21, 2010 By

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Ed Dept: Lift a community, raise a school (AP)

Published on September 19, 2010 By

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Tesheda Mansfield grew up in the protective walls of Sunland Park Elementary, participating in beauty pageants and field day, and walking home from school in the afternoons.

Obama urges students to be tolerant of each other (AP)

Published on September 14, 2010 By

PHILADELPHIA – President Barack Obama, in a message Tuesday to America’s students, urged them to ignore bullies and treat each other with kindness and respect, saying part of the beauty of life “lies in its diversity.” Obama acknowledged that school is tough and that it can be made even tougher by the presence of classroom bullies who make fun of students and try to make those who are different from them feel bad. He said students should ignore the bulliers and celebrate the differences among them

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

Published on September 6, 2010 By rohit

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died

Fired, rehired teachers back at troubled RI school (AP)

Published on September 4, 2010 By rohit

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.

Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on August 31, 2010 By

Chicago and Boston – Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line – sometimes literally between life and death. At the South Side after-school center that his mom founded, he knew kids who’d made it all the way to fourth grade unable to read. And on the asphalt playgrounds of that rough area, he shot hoops with boys who later died in gang warfare.