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Nation’s largest school district wins top public education award

NEW YORK The nation’s largest school system has won the country’s top prize in public education that honors an urban district with the greatest student improvement and most success reducing achievement gaps among the poor and minorities.

Leadership & Policy

Examiners’ reports show Alabama 2-year colleges doing OK job

PRATTVILLE Ala. Financial aid abuse at Bishop State Community College has led state examiners to expand the scope of their audits, but such problems have not been found at other schools so far, an examiner told system presidents Tuesday.

Startup’s PC-sharing tech could rival more celebrated efforts to bring low-cost computing to disadvantaged students

When the government minister for technology in Macedonia, one of Europe’s poorest countries, decided to jolt the nation’s educational system by outfitting schools with new computers, he had a surprising array of blue-chip choices.

Leadership & Policy

SIU names faculty members to review plagiarism claims against Poshard

CARBONDALE Ill. Seven senior Southern Illinois University faculty members will investigate allegations of plagiarism against the system’s president, the school’s chancellor announced Friday.

Fall 2007 OSU system shows increases in Hispanic, Native American enrollment, but overall system enrollment declines

STILLWATER Okla. Lower high school graduation rates, increased admission standards and stiff competition from neighboring universities caused a slight decline in enrollment across Oklahoma State University’s five campuses.

A Tale of Two Indias

India’s Supreme Court recently upheld a stay against a quota system in higher education for historically oppressed Indians. Upper- and lower-caste Indians are at odds over the ruling.

A Tale of Two Indias

India’s Supreme Court recently upheld a stay against a quota system in higher education for historically oppressed Indians. Upper- and lower-caste Indians are at odds over the ruling.

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

LOS ANGELES For more than a decade, a group of educational leaders within the University of California system have been working towards a common goal: the development of a statewide think tank that would address the issues of the growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population.

Southern U. President Agrees to Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit

BATON ROUGE, La. Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter has agreed to settle his whistleblower lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment by the chairman of his system’s governing board in exchange for a two-year contract and a salary supplement that will nearly double his state-funded salary of $220,000.

North Carolina Needs 400,000 New Workers With Bachelor’s Degrees By 2014

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. North Carolina’s universities are falling behind on providing the number of well-educated, skilled workers the state needs, according to a report last week to a commission planning the University of North Carolina system’s future.

Community Colleges

New Study: California Community College Students Abandon Transfer Plans At High Rate

Six in 10 California community college system students with high school diplomas and transfer aspirations are giving up transfer plans or dropping out after only one semester, a new study reveals. Research conducted by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) also finds that two-year college students taking four classes or more are far more likely to transfer.

King calls for support for ‘Jena Six’

JENA La. Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the famed civil rights leader, urged a crowd Tuesday night to use the ballot box to change a local justice system where six black teenagers face the possibility of decades in prison for attacking a white classmate.

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