en-us http://www.newsique.com/education/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/education/fight_back_against_giving_kids_n/ The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization this month. There has been much necessary criticism and commentary about its unfunded mandates, forced standardized testing, and takeover threats to struggling public school systems. But another cr opinion education 2007-10-01 11:13:22 http://www.newsique.com/education/fight_back_against_giving_kids_n/ www.madison.com http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/248340 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/fight_back_against_giving_kids_n/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_welcome_to_a_li/ Colleges and universities today are turning teenagers into full-fledged citizens of our economy by introducing them to a lifetime of debt. Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn them into full- opinion education 2007-09-11 11:09:29 http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_welcome_to_a_li/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/workplace/62125/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Interesting [9] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_welcome_to_a_li/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/schoolyard_secrets/ THE ARREST this month of a reporter, accused of trespassing for taking soil samples at a pesticide-contaminated Paramus, N.J., middle school, is a powerful reminder of our tolerance for official secrecy about environmental health risks at schools. Mich opinion education 2007-06-28 00:08:25 http://www.newsique.com/education/schoolyard_secrets/ Los Angeles Times http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/printedition/opinion/~3/128284543/la-oe-horowitz27jun27,1,3625596.story http://www.newsique.com/sources/latimes/ 93 Interesting [3] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/schoolyard_secrets/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/a_dream_lay_dying/ Times columnist and editorial board member Bill Maxwell kept a promise to himself, to become a professor at a small historically black college, to nurture needy students the way that mentors had encouraged him as a young man. His second year started with opinion education 2007-05-22 08:13:41 http://www.newsique.com/education/a_dream_lay_dying/ St. Petersburg Times http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Opinion/A_dream_lay_dying.shtml/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/tampabay/ 94 Insightful [9] 95 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/a_dream_lay_dying/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/make_college_admissions_a_crapsh/ SPRING IS HERE, and along with the crocuses comes the annual admissions panic. High school kids get anxiety attacks as they approach their mailboxes. And in some parts of the U.S., parents stress as they await a phone call from their preschool of choice. opinion education 2007-03-18 13:19:10 http://www.newsique.com/education/make_college_admissions_a_crapsh/ Los Angeles Times http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/printedition/opinion/~3/102544632/la-op-schwartz18mar18,1,7890019.story http://www.newsique.com/sources/latimes/ 93 Insightful [4] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/make_college_admissions_a_crapsh/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/challenges_for_schools_new_chief/ Since the elections in November of a new governor and many new state legislators, much has been said about the nearly unprecedented opportunities for change in Colorado. But for Colorado's students, a more recent development may mark a change with even mo opinion education 2007-03-17 18:07:52 http://www.newsique.com/education/challenges_for_schools_new_chief/ Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5446833 http://www.newsique.com/sources/denverpost/ 88 Interesting [4] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/challenges_for_schools_new_chief/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_think_theyre_so/ Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society. “We nee opinion education 2007-02-27 18:03:53 http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_think_theyre_so/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17349066/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [3] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/college_students_think_theyre_so/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/growing_demand_for_english_lesso/ Two weeks after she moved here from her native Brazil, Maria de Oliveira signed up for free English classes at a squat storefront in this working-class suburb, figuring that with an associate’s degree and three years as an administrative assistant, she opinion education 2007-02-27 00:25:28 http://www.newsique.com/education/growing_demand_for_english_lesso/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/education/27esl.html?ex=1330232400&en=88be9bcbcd1c3036&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Interesting [4] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/growing_demand_for_english_lesso/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/scientific_literacy_americans_le/ Americans are more scientifically literate than Europeans or Japanese, but 70 percent of them cannot understand the New York Times science section, according to Michigan State University researcher. Participating in an American Association for the Adva opinion education 2007-02-18 11:04:37 http://www.newsique.com/education/scientific_literacy_americans_le/ pressesc.com http://pressesc.com/01171729171_american_scientific_literacy Interesting [4] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/scientific_literacy_americans_le/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/is_your_child_being_left_behind/ As No Child Left Behind comes due for reauthorization, the public has many reasons to remain skeptical about whether it really helps children learn. opinion education 2007-02-06 08:23:22 http://www.newsique.com/education/is_your_child_being_left_behind/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/story/47674/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Insightful [6] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/is_your_child_being_left_behind/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/revealed_how_scientologists_infi/ Devotees of the Church of Scientology have gained access to thousands of British children through a charity that visits schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs. A Sunday Times investigation has found that Marlborough College is one of more than 500 sch opinion education 2007-01-07 09:49:38 http://www.newsique.com/education/revealed_how_scientologists_infi/ Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2535187,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/times_online/ 93 Interesting [5] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/revealed_how_scientologists_infi/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/the_wall_of_separation/ A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it. opinion education 2006-12-08 08:24:56 http://www.newsique.com/education/the_wall_of_separation/ Americans United http://blog.au.org/2006/12/falwells_flub_j.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/americansunited/ 90 Shocking [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/the_wall_of_separation/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/ucpds_use_of_force_disturbing_un/ With cameras poised, students in Powell Library on Tuesday night captured on video university police's use of excessive force in escorting an uncooperative student out of the library. opinion education 2006-11-17 16:47:54 http://www.newsique.com/education/ucpds_use_of_force_disturbing_un/ dailybruin.com http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38987 Under Rated [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/ucpds_use_of_force_disturbing_un/#comments http://www.newsique.com/education/why_are_universities_so_racist/ My lifetime has seen the last vestiges of institutional racism banished. Individual racism can never be eradicated but we have progressed to where it is impossible for a public entity to discriminate based on race, right? opinion education 2006-10-18 15:09:42 http://www.newsique.com/education/why_are_universities_so_racist/ BlackFive.net http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/10/why_are_univers.html Under Rated [3] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/education/why_are_universities_so_racist/#comments