Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $ 50 Million to Create New High SchoolsNews from New York Times: Photo Laurene Powell Jobs at a graduation ceremony for Urban League College Track students in New Orleans in May 2013. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times SANTA MONICA, Calif. â Her husband, Steven P. Jobs, famously helped [...]
News from The Guardian: ‘Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.’ Photograph: Alamy The education spokespeople of the three main parties have said (admitted? confessed? boasted?) that they would be OK with sending their children to private schools. Anyone trying to explain to a [...]
News from U.S. News & World Report: Give them the skills they need to succeed. In debates about education, early childhood often comes across as K-12’s overlooked little sibling. With no guaranteed access for children and families, lower resource levels and lower quality standards for many programs, the early childhood field lacks many things that [...]
Glen Ridge Spotlight on Schools: High schoolNews from NorthJersey.com: photo courtesy of Jennifer Chiang Pictured, the seventh and eighth grade French students from Glen Ridge High School traveled to Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum recently, where they heard French Reflections. Another recent trip was to Paris during winter break in February. The French students [...]
State schools chief: No more tests for high school graduationNews from TheNewsTribune.com: Washington state’s top education official wants to stop requiring students to pass high-stakes exams before they can graduate from high school, a proposal that would reverse years of standardized testing policy in the state. The idea from state schools chief Randy Dorn comes [...]
S.J.’s vocational high schools see new identity in changing economic …News from Gloucester County Times – NJ.com: In the wake of a recession and the slow economic recovery that’s followed, more students are rethinking the traditional educational paths and opting for the one less traveled. Take Gloucester County’s Institute of Technology for example. In the past [...]
BOE approves staff changes for all Cedar Grove schoolsNews from NorthJersey.com: Times File Photo Cedar Grove High School is just one of the township’s public schools making room for new staff members. The Cedar Grove school district will make room for new staff members after the Board of Education approved several changes at a July [...]
Smiths Station High School’s new principal is a native sonNews from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Courtesy of Smiths Station High School Joaquin Richards Joaquin Richards sees his promotion from assistant principal to principal at Smiths Station High School as a blessing personally as well as professionally. That’s because Richards, a 1984 graduate of Smiths, is a lifelong [...]
News from Mirror.co.uk: While most children went back to school this week after the half-term holiday, Josh Moore wasn’t among them. Four years ago, he was a happy nine-year-old thriving in a mainstream primary school. As with most boisterous young boys, his behaviour occasionally gave teachers cause for concern, but Josh was settled and doing [...]
News from New Vision: Mpabulungi gives tailoring lessons to teenagers at her home in Jinja. Photos by George Bita Every year New Vision, in its Woman Achiever Awards, recognises the unsung heroines, those women who have gone an extra mile to improve the conditions in their communities. In the ninth edition, New Vision, in [...]
