District Administration: Education News

What Does It Take To Ace The SAT?

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

One public school has had a remarkable rate of SAT perfection.

Beyond Sports, Activity Fees Too

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

A combination of expense increases and less state aid has forced some Massachusetts school district administrators to impose fees on extracurricular activities.

Leaving the Learning at Home

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

More blacks are choosing to teach their own children.

In Iowa''s Rural Schools, Student Shortage May Ignite a Flurry of Mergers

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

A consolidation trend will alter Iowa''s education landscape, state and school leaders predict.

In North Carolina, Teacher Vacancies Are Rare This Year

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

Triangle school officials say they''ve had an easier time recruiting people this year and are in good shape for the first day of classes.

A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

In February, the Florida Department of Education modified its standards to explicitly require, for the first time, the state’s public schools to teach evolution.

Study Spells Out the Link Between Graduation and Crime Reduction

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

If you want to cut the crime rate see to it that more teenagers graduate from high school.

As Food Costs Rise, So Do School Lunch Prices

8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM

The price increases, generally about 25 cents a meal, come as school districts in New York and across the country try to eke more out of already tight budgets.

Districts Can''t Pay to Sue South Dakota

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

School districts don''t have the authority to spend district money to support their lawsuit that challenges the state''s education funding system, a Pierre judge ruled.

Students Come First Again on Facebook with Inigral App

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

A new application called Schools will allow students to view their courses via Facebook and communicate with classmates and friends.

Students: Don''t Get Hung Up on Rankings

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

It seems there are college rankings for just about everything.

Student Scores Sliced a New Way

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

Growth percentiles will allow school districts to see how students have progressed.

When Learning Has a Limit

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

In "Real Education," the author suggests that teachers, students, and reformers are all suffering from a case of false consciousness.

Small School Districts Get Creative to Find Teachers

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

"Instead of waiting for them to come to you, you’re making the call, asking them to come."

10 New York City Schools to Focus Reading Skills on Content

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a pilot program that would overhaul the way children in 10 city schools are taught to read.

Value-Added Evaluation Being Tried in Ohio Schools

8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

The revolutionary formula, designed more than two decades ago by a homespun statistical guru from the rolling hills of eastern Tennessee, has rocked the education world.

Voucher Program for Disabled Children Gets Funded

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

A $5 million voucher program in Arizona for disabled and foster children that was cut from the state budget has been reinstated.

Study: HPV Vaccine by Age 21 a Sound Public Health Investment

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

More than half of girls have been exposed to HPV by the time they finish high school, says Carol Baker, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.

Reporting School Child Abuse: Vague Law May Cost Principal

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

A school principal may have become a pawn in a feud between the Salt Lake County Sheriff''s Office and the Jordan School District.

A Promise of Pre-K for All Is Still Far Off in New York

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

More than 10 years after New York’s political and education leaders promised to work toward providing access to pre-kindergarten classes to every 4-year-old across the state, more than a third of the 677 local school districts have no such programs.

An Ohio Elementary School Has Been Revamped

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

William H. Taft Elementary, which had its entire staff except for lunchroom monitors replaced over the summer, started the 2008-09 school year as a newly revamped “STEM” school.

Boston''s Newest Classrooms: Schoolyards

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

In sprucing up playgrounds, the Boston Schoolyard Initiative has found a way to help kids learn.

Schools'' Later Start Is Saving Big Bucks

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

In the first year, Texas'' schools appear to have saved millions of dollars in August utility bills.

New Chief Seeks DC Schools Fix Where Others Failed

8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

In one year Chancellor Michelle Rhee has shuttered 23 schools, fired more than 30 principals, and given notice to hundreds of teachers and administrative workers.

Georgia Schools Superintendent to Appear on ''5th Grader''

8/22/2008 12:00:00 AM

Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox will appear on the special two-hour episode with supermodel Kathy Ireland.