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- Malloy kicks off hearing on his education plan
- GOP puts off 'Don't Say Gay' measure in House
- Committee cuts virtual schools from charter bill
- 'Parent Trigger' Campaign Divides Families at Calif. School
- More public schools dish up 3 meals a day
- Student journalists explore youth violence
- Vermont pushes to get more students to college
- Fed up with menu, students stage lunchroom boycott
- Financial Collapse Threatens Pennsylvania District
- LGBT Students Need Our Support
- Former KC sup rewrote contracts before departure
- Lawmakers: Consultants key to education funding
- Former K.C. Schools Chief Tried to Sweeten Top Administrators' Severance Pay
- Texas House committee evaluates charter schools
- Wash. Schools Chief: Use State Revenue for Education First
- Philadelphia Diocese Alters Plan for School Closures
- Ga. bill would tweak state laws on immigration
- STAAR won't impact students' grades this year
- Federal K-12 Footprint at Core of ESEA Hearing
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News Analysis: Immigration Vote Leaves Obama’s Policy in Disarray
The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of immigrants and also appeared to leave the immigration policy of the Obama administration, which has supported the bill and the movement, in disarray. Enlarge This Image Drew Angerer/The New York Times Supporters of the â??Dream Actâ? measure consoled each other Saturday after senators blocked it. Multimedia Interactive Graphic How the Senate Voted Related Senate Blocks Bill for Young Illegal Immigrants (December 19, 2010) Blogs The Caucus The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation.
Incoming Chief of Insead Sees the Strengths of Europe
PARIS — As Europe cowers behind the shadow being cast by Asia in global markets, there are some words of optimism for the region from an unlikely source. Related Getting Ahead in India Means Getting Out of Town (December 13, 2010) Dearth of Blacks at Oxford and Cambridge (December 13, 2010) Dipak C. Jain, who is preparing to take the helm at Insead, a premier business school, thinks Europe and France have strengths that they can still leverage in business and education.
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Illegal Immigrant Students Await Votes on Legal Status
With both houses of Congress set to vote this week on a bill that would give legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students, one of those students will wait for news of the outcome at an immigration detention center in Arizona. Enlarge This Image Hector Lopez, in a 2008 Oregon school photo, was deported to Mexico in August and is seeking asylum in the U.S. The student, Hector Lopez, 21, was deported to Mexico in August after having lived with his family in Oregon since he was an infant
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Plan to Lift University Tuition Galvanizes British Students
LONDON — According to the French writer Agn?s Poirier, “It is not in the British DNA to demonstrate. The British simply don’t believe in it.” Early last month, when Ms. Poirier, who lives in London, made her comparison between the revolutionary tradition of her native country and the stiff-upper-lip stoicism that seemed to characterize the British response to the financial crisis, there appeared little reason to argue.
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The Bay Citizen: Nonprofit Groups Saw Flags Before School Payment Scandal
San Francisco school officials, including Superintendent Carlos A.
New Subject of Debate on Mideast: Hummus
Forget Hezbollah and Hamas . The latest chapter in the Israeli-Arab conflict is all about hummus, the chickpea dip that is a staple of American college cafeterias. At Princeton and DePaul Universities, Palestinian students and their supporters have challenged the sale of Sabra hummus in an effort to focus attention on accusations that Israeli military forces violated human rights.
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Groups Make Late Push to Salvage Bill Aiding Illegal Immigrant Students
Immigrant advocate groups have mobilized across the country in what they call a last-ditch effort to persuade Congress to pass a bill that would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students, pressing for action in the remaining weeks when Democrats control both houses of Congress.
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Fred Goldhaber, 63, Dies; Taught at School for Gays
Among Mr. G.’s first students back in 1985 were runaways who had been sleeping in a shed down by the docks in Lower Manhattan where the city stored mountains of road salt. Enlarge This Image Mark Peterson/Redux Fred Goldhaber and Monica Fishof in 1991, then the Havey Milk Schoolâ??s only full-time teachers
Like a Monitor More Than a Tutor
Sitting at a dining room table festooned with papers, colored folders and laptop and iPad screens in his Upper West Side apartment, Benji Sternberg, 13, rattled off correct answers to a slew of homework questions, peppering them with wisecracks and occasional bursts of song. Enlarge This Image Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times Though a homework helper has assisted Benji in getting organized, he still writes some assignments on the back of his hand.
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Serious Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges