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Closing down

BBC: Education (UK) - May 31, 2010 - 08:08
Academy aimed at supporting rising opera stars to shut

Accounting Grad Didn't Figure On Job Rejections

NPR: Education - May 31, 2010 - 07:01

Melanie Singer has long been preparing for a career as an accountant. Despite intensive networking, meetings with a career counselor and three internships, she is discovering there is no formula that results in a job.

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New era and president for St. Mary's College of Maryland

The Washington Post: Education - May 30, 2010 - 23:00
At St. Mary's College of Maryland, a library card entitles the bearer to check out a boat. An unofficial Frisbee golf course snakes around campus. Someone walking past the student center on a recent day might have glimpsed this slogan, scrawled on a brick wall above a row of unlocked bicycles:...



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Late-night maneuvering gives Harris building to UDC for community college

The Washington Post: Education - May 30, 2010 - 23:00
The slash to the streetcar program wasn't the only big change to the city budget made in the middle of the night.


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AP classes' draw extends beyond extra grade points

The Washington Post: Education - May 30, 2010 - 23:00
Like all human beings, educators accept rules and procedures that make sense to them, even when academic types wave data in their faces proving they are wrong. That appears to be the case with one of the most powerful and widespread practices in Washington area high schools -- the extra grade point...


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Ex-principal denies partaking in school cheating scandal

Baltimore Sun: Education - May 30, 2010 - 21:05
In her first public statements since accusations were made, Susan Burgess denies partaking in in test tampering

In her first public statements since accusations were made, Susan Burgess says she had no role in test tampering at George Washington Elementary School


Two-year degrees 'are sweatshops'

BBC: Education (UK) - May 30, 2010 - 13:36
University staff reject any move to introduce two-year degrees, warning that they would lead to "academic sweatshops".

Student overcomes obstacles to graduate from HCC

Baltimore Sun: Education - May 29, 2010 - 22:06
Bedke, an honors student, has found success on her own

Michelle Bedke attended Howard Community College's graduation Thursday with mixed emotions.


Jean Marbella: Tampered tests a terrible student lesson to learn

Baltimore Sun: Education - May 29, 2010 - 19:59
Students ill-served by testing scandal

I was given a spelling test once, for a secretarial job that I was trying to get for the summer before college, in which I had to pick out words on a list that were misspelled and correct them.


More lecturers 'seeking support'

BBC: Education (UK) - May 29, 2010 - 18:01
A charity says more lecturers and college staff are seeking support over job insecurity, job losses and bigger workloads.

Cardinal Gibbons School graduates its 45th, final class

Baltimore Sun: Education - May 29, 2010 - 16:21
Catholic school one of 13 closing as part of Archdiocese of Baltimore reorganization

A scriptural reading chosen for Cardinal Gibbons High School's graduation Saturday advised, "be at peace with yourselves" — a fitting coda for a school that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is closing amid much protest. After months of battling the archdiocese, graduates and their families gathered at the Baltimore Basilica at peace — and with a sense of pride and acceptance.


At Trinity School, Students and Teachers Reminisce

New York Times: Education - May 29, 2010 - 08:10
At an annual breakfast for graduating seniors, students at Manhattan’s Trinity School gathered to reminisce with their first teachers.

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Letters Of War From Student Soldiers

NPR: Education - May 29, 2010 - 07:00

Elizabeth Samet teaches English at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the March 25 issue of The New Republic magazine, she writes about the correspondence she maintains with some of her former students after they are deployed to war zones. She reads some of those letters for host Scott Simon.

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New York to Allow Many More Charter Schools

New York Times: Education - May 29, 2010 - 01:20
Officials hope the move will give the state a better chance of receiving $700 million in federal grant money.

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Your Money: Another Debt Crisis Is Brewing, This One in Student Loans

New York Times: Education - May 28, 2010 - 22:26
Is it really worth $100,000 in debt to graduate from a top school? And is it responsible?

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Mike Baker

BBC: Education (UK) - May 28, 2010 - 21:28
What does academy freedom really mean?
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