http://theednews.org en-us N/A [email protected] Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:27:06 EDT 20 http://theednews.org/articles/30053/1/New-math-requisite-concerns-high-school-counselors/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Tallahassee Democrat) Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:37:38 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30053/1/New-math-requisite-concerns-high-school-counselors/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30052/1/039Defining-Your-Path039-conference-helps-girls-onto-career-tracks/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Salt Lake Tribune) Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:29:56 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30052/1/039Defining-Your-Path039-conference-helps-girls-onto-career-tracks/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30051/1/When-it-came-to-the-crunch-MBAs-didn039t-help/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Guardian (UK)) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:46:46 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30051/1/When-it-came-to-the-crunch-MBAs-didn039t-help/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30050/1/Most-of-Microsoft-settlement-for-California-school-computers-untouched/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Los Angeles Times) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:58 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30050/1/Most-of-Microsoft-settlement-for-California-school-computers-untouched/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30049/1/Colorado-State-colleges-take-a-gamble-for-funding/Page1.html

Amendment 50 has several layers, but the crux of the ballot measure is this: Should Colorado's three mountain gambling towns be allowed to raise the maximum bet at casinos from $5 to $100? ]]> [email protected] (Denver Post) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:37:26 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30049/1/Colorado-State-colleges-take-a-gamble-for-funding/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30048/1/039Elitism039-row-student-graduates/Page1.html










A ex-comprehensive school pupil, the focus of an elitism row after Oxford University rejected her, has graduated from Cambridge. In 2000, Gordon Brown, at the time the chancellor, dubbed Oxford's decision to reject a pupil predicted to get five A grades at A-level "a scandal". ]]> [email protected] (British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (UK)) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:03:38 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30048/1/039Elitism039-row-student-graduates/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30047/1/College-threatens-students-for-even-discussing-guns/Page1.html The Young Conservatives of Texas branch at the Houston-area Lone Star College-Tomball has been censored and threatened with campus-wide de-recognition for passing out a humorous pamphlet with gun jokes at a campus fair. ]]> [email protected] (WorldNet Daily) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:57:08 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30047/1/College-threatens-students-for-even-discussing-guns/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30046/1/Michelle-Rhee-and-Teach-for-America--Live-QampA-Monday-October-27-Noon-ET/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Washington Post) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:53:39 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30046/1/Michelle-Rhee-and-Teach-for-America--Live-QampA-Monday-October-27-Noon-ET/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30045/1/Doubt-Surrounds-New-School-Board039s-Value/Page1.html var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); ]]> [email protected] (Washington Post) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:52:14 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/30045/1/Doubt-Surrounds-New-School-Board039s-Value/Page1.html http://theednews.org/articles/30044/1/A-Plan-to-Cut-the-High-School-Dropout-Rate/Page1.html
By WINNIE HU
Graduation rates in New Jersey and elsewhere have become a measure of the larger community outside the school and whether civil servants are doing their job.
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