“Easter Seals today breaks ground on a unique $28 million school for autistic children. The building itself will be therapeutic, designed to offset autistic students’ hypersensitivity to sights and sounds: The windows will be high off the floor. When students look out, they’ll see trees and clouds, rather than street scenes that can be distracting. […]
“Women now make up nearly 60 per cent of Canada’s university students. Men’s share of undergraduate enrolment, meanwhile, has dropped to a dopey 42 per cent over the past 10 years. Between 1992 and 2001, the number of women grads shot up 10 per cent. Women also account for 63 per cent of part-time university […]
“The three-year-old Academic Bill of Rights (ABR) is an innocuous-looking document setting a basic definition of academic freedom–a mechanism for protecting university students and faculty from ‘the imposition of any orthodoxy of a political, religious, or ideological nature.’ It emphasizes students’ and faculty members’ free-speech rights and the value of intellectual diversity on college campuses. […]
“Three years after the Supreme Court heard Jennifer Gratz’s challenge to the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy, she is still fighting racial preferences, this time in a Michigan ballot initiative. ‘We have a horrible history when it comes to race in this country,’ said Ms. Gratz, 29, a white applicant who was wait-listed 11 […]
“Under mounting pressure for major reforms at Los Angeles schools, the teachers union has brought in its tough former leader to help mobilize members for a strike if its demands are not met. United Teachers Los Angeles is hiring a former UTLA president, Wayne Johnson, who organized a successful nine-day strike in 1989 and wrangled […]
“Five years can feel like a lifetime in politics, where momentum can be a stronger force than gravity. For the Bush Administration, five years invested in implementing and defending No Child Left Behind has created a sense of ownership over all aspects of a law that was the result of heavy negotiations.This was apparent in […]
“The Associated Press article titled “Statistics show decline in state home-schooling” [B6, Oct. 25] was an example of biased reporting at its worst. The reporter referred only to the numbers of home-schooled children registered with the local board of education in Murfreesboro. While those numbers may be in decline, the cause is likely that Rutherford […]
“This should be a shining moment for education schools. Never has the nation paid so much attention to improving the quality of teaching. Yet the institutions that produce teachers have never faced so much criticism. ‘Teacher education is the Dodge City of the education world,’ said Arthur Levine, former president of Columbia University’s Teachers College. […]
“David Driscoll should be taking a well-deserved victory lap. Instead, as he sits in his office discussing his impending retirement after an accomplishment-filled run as the state’s education commissioner, Driscoll is sounding alarms. Asked whether US children, growing up in a country that undervalues scholastic achievement and clings to a relatively short school year, can […]
“France, England, Germany, and who knows which other countries are in deep doo-doo because of the impossibility of supporting both multiculturalism and state school policies. The former is in fact a corollary of individual liberty—in a free country one may practice whatever cultural practice one wants, provided others’ rights aren’t violated. Thus, wearing a black […]
