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By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMonths after she was raped in her dorm room during her freshman year at Kansas State University, Madeleine Lietz heard a rumor. The man who raped her, also a Kansas State University student, had finally been expelled -- not for sexual assault, but because he had simply failed his classes and flunked out. In an account some fear is common among survivors of sexual assault at the nation's colleges and universities, Lietz said her school's reaction -- or non-reaction -- to her rape was akin to a second trauma in itself. "I was given little to no help after the assault. The issue -- the ...
High School 'Bans' Hugging
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsAn Australian high school has banned students from hugging and warned that those caught in the act will be sent to detention, according to parents. But the claims have sparked a row with the local Department of Education, which denied the reports, further angering parents and students. Some parents say teachers at Figtree High School, near the city of Wollongong, south of Sydney, announced during a recent school assembly that hugging on school premises was banned. "[A senior staff member] stood up at assembly and basically announced hugging was now banned and students would be given ...
Opinion: Scandal Debunks Education Miracles
By Walt Gardner - AOL NewsA scandal now unfolding in New York City, home of the nation's largest school district, is calling into question whether miracles in education are really mirages. From 2006 to 2010, the number of students who passed statewide math tests in Grades 3 through 8 soared from 58 to 82 percent. During the same period, the graduation rate leapt from 49 to 63 percent. Not surprisingly, the data were used by reformers to "prove" that miracles are possible when schools are held accountable. In fact, when Joel Klein announced his resignation to take a top executive position with News Corp., The New York ...
Report: More 'Glaring' Errors in Va. History Textbook
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe Virginia history textbook that raised eyebrows when it claimed that large numbers of black soldiers fought for the South during the Civil War is under scrutiny again, after a review of the book found dozens of errors that historians call disturbing. Among the mistakes: the claim that 12 states joined the Confederacy, not 11, and that 6,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War, instead of 22,000. Three of the five historians who reviewed "Our Virginia: Past and Present" at the request of the state board of education said they were appalled. "I absolutely could ...
For-Profit Colleges Brace for Drop in Enrollment
By Julia Edwards - Politics DailyAmericans who had their sights set on attending colleges with online classes, flexible hours and the promise of a job after graduation may be changing their plans come 2011. The nation's largest for-profit college, University of Phoenix, announced recently that it is expecting a possible 40 percent drop in enrollment in November. The decrease in demand has been triggered by increased competition, as well as the likelihood that the Department of Education will implement new regulations in January that could change school recruiting practices and reduce the availability of Pell Grants to ...
Opinion: Why Education Reforms Keep Failing
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- In 1966, the U.S. Office of Education issued the most comprehensive study on education ever produced by the federal government. Known as the Coleman Report, it was commissioned by bureaucrats in the educational establishment in hopes of making the case for ever-greater educational expenditures if perceived inequalities in education could be documented. To the consternation of the mortified bureaucrats who commissioned it, the Coleman Report concluded that "schools are not very important in determining student achievement. Families, and to a lesser extent peers [are] the primary ...
Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- School's out ... forever? Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether. In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following: To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need to separate school and state entirely. Government should exit the business of running and funding ...
'Race to the Top' Winners, Losers Weigh In on Finalist Announcement
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 27) -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's office today announced the finalists in the Department of Education's Race to the Top contest to fund state school programs. In the first round of funding awards that took place in March, Delaware won $100 million and Tennessee won $500 million. Still at stake is $3.4 billion in funds that could help states reeling from the recession help close substantial budget gaps. In all, 35 states and Washington, D.C., applied in the second round; 18 states and Washington still remain in the running. The Winners While the final recipients of the ...
Eighteen States, D.C. are Finalists for Race to the Top Education Money
By Emmarie Huetteman - Politics DailyEighteen states and the District of Columbia will vie for $3.4 billion as finalists in the second round of Race to the Top, the Obama administration's competitive program to encourage states to implement its education reform initiatives. Whittled down from 36 applications, the finalists in round two include all of the previous finalists minus Delaware and Tennessee, winners of the last round of grants. Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maryland, and New Jersey are newcomers to the finals in this round of Race to the Top. In a speech Tuesday at the National Press Club, Education Secretary Arne ...
As Congress Investigates For-Profit Colleges, Students Face Risky Choices
By Elizabeth Schiffman - Politics DailyAre rising college enrollment numbers a bad thing? In October 2008, the share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high. According to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent U.S. Census data available, just under 11.5 million students, or 39.6 percent of all young adults ages 18 to 24, were enrolled in a two- or four-year college in October 2008. Cynical views of these numbers stem from the fact that most of the growth is from for-profit colleges. The increased interest in post-secondary education has increased demand and competition for ...
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