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Save A Tree, Teach Through The Cloud: South Korea Schools First To Go Paperless
By 2015, South Korea has vowed that their entire school system will be paperless. Instead of requiring that students use paper textbooks (which break down and,...
Typing Beats Scribbling: Indiana Schools Can Stop Teaching Cursive
Who still writes in cursive? That age-old writing method you might never have used since fourth grade will no longer be taught in Indiana schools come fall,...
Investigation Finds 'Widespread' Cheating in Atlanta Schools
At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history...
Dept. of Stretched Analogies: Supermarkets Aren’t Schools
I imagine most writers have made the mistake of falling in love with an analogy and stretching it way past the breaking point. A sportswriter I knew long ago...
A Drastic Cut for Detroit Schools
It says a lot about a plan when its author declares that it won't work. In January, Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager of Detroit's ailing public...
Elmo Schools Ricky Gervais
Elmo, arguably the most successful Sesame Street character in recent years — he has a vibrating doll, people — can do sarcasm and irony just as well as any...
How Much Can Schools Do?
In the fall of 2005, some 17 months before Cho Seung-Hui went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech, his behavior was so disturbing that his creative-writing...
How Schools Are Pulling Rank
It's hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is a nuisance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools...
Best Schools? The Alt Guides
It's a fall tradition. U.S. News & World Report's best-colleges guide hits newsstands--in the new edition, Harvard and Princeton tie for best university, and...
Teaching Schools How to Spend
He made millions figuring out how to profit from other companies' excess goods, and now the CEO of Overstock.com has set his sights on making sure public schools...
Headlines To Classroom
This fall college students can base their course selections on more than just sleep schedules and workload. In the wake of Sept. 11, many universities quickly...
New Math in Iraqi Schools: Saddam = x
Reared on paeans to Saddam Hussein and forced to chant "Long live Saddam" whenever a teacher strode into the room, Iraqi kids are in for some changes at school...
Movies: The Piano Teacher
A martinet among instructors, Erika (Isabelle Huppert) humiliates her pupils and then schemes to help them win competitions. She plays the sexual sadist with her...
Supreme Court Allows Church Clubs to Meet After-Hours in Public Schools
Church groups are free to use public schools for meetings now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned two lower-court rulings prohibiting an evangelical...
Schools Search for the Best Test
On the same day the Senate passed its version of President Bush's education proposal containing strict new provisions for statewide testing, Education Secretary...
SCHOOL'S OUT?
CHILDREN ACROSS THE COUNTRY MAY one day discover that their first schoolwork assignment has nothing to do with reading, writing or arithmetic. Instead, they will...
Schools: Challenging Student Searches
President Reagan, in a speech before the National Forum on Excellence in Education late last year, called for a return of discipline to make American public...
Business: Teaching the Teacher
Japan's genius for adapting foreign techniques is legendary, and the career of Tsuneo Inui, 64, illustrates why. Sent to New York City by a Tokyo bank in the...
Public Schools: Schools Yes, Taxes No
In Chattanooga last month, despite endorsements from civic organizations, PTAs and school officials, voters rejected a $10 million school bond issue. At the...
