Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
‘In Loco Parentis’ Revisited
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On February 5, a tornado carved a deep gash across the aorta of our campus: the dormitory complex. Along with the university’s president, David Dockery, and another dean, I was among the first administrators to arrive at the disaster, a mere two minutes following the direct hit.
We stopped first at the men’s dorms. Nothing could [...]
City students off to tour the future
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“I’d really like to see Parsons %26#091;The New School for Design%26#093; in New York City. ‘Project Runway’ is there, so I’m psyched for seeing that,” said Lai, 17, a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School, before boarding a bus that would take her there. [...]
Clinton Needs Texas Latinos to Bolster Her Faltering Candidacy
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Next to her gold medallion of the
Virgin of Guadalupe, Rosa Rosales of San Antonio wears a button
for the woman she considers another patron of Mexican-Americans:
Hillary Clinton.
The New [...]
Chicago Teachers Union wants school board to delay vote on school closings
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“Turn off the automatic pilot and postpone the actions…to reassess whether all the schools on the list should truly be on the list,” Stewart said. “It would allow us to reach a consensus as a city on a plan that we would all feel good about.” [...]
Chicago Public Schools hopes to solve dropout problem
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Since then, the number of students who have dropped out has been edging lower. In 2006, that figure dropped to a seven-year low when 44 percent of the 31,600 9th graders who began high school in 2001 failed to graduate. “It’s a huge issue, [...]
Centre stage
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It started with a drink. Just a quick one late at night in one of the campus hotels on the edge of Coventry that Warwick University uses to put up visiting academics and staff members who live some distance away. “We love a good gossip about politics after an evening at the keyboard,” David Thomas, [...]
Logical new plan or a betrayal
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The University and College Union (UCU) is six months old, and the two unions that merged to form it still seem far from becoming one. New proposals for restructuring the union from the general secretary, Sally Hunt, have been met with fierce criticism, and a special meeting of the executive has been called next week [...]
Men at work
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Toddlers are climbing, swinging and chasing each other on a Saturday morning in the sunny garden of a children’s centre. Some are viewing the landscape from their dads’ shoulders. In the kitchen, young men are sitting around a low table on tiny chairs, chatting and laughing, the babies on their laps poking their fingers into [...]
