29 Mayıs 2012 Salı

Education News | News Date May 29, 2012

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Bullied Boy's Injuries Should Trigger Police Involvement
DEAR ABBY: I am a retired New York City police officer and a resource officer at two high schools in Brooklyn. I must comment on the letter you printed from "Worried About My Boy in Tulsa" (March 29), whose 7-year-old is bullied. If a child hits another child so hard that medical attention is required, it is an assault. The police should have been notified and appropriate law enforcement action taken.The school then has cause to remove the violent child and have him/her placed in an education program better suited for violent children. ...


New Program For Helping With Self-Image
A new program designed by researchers at the Department of Developmental and educational Psychology enables people to learn to love their bodies and faces, improving a person's physical self-concept. Similar initiatives are already routinely applied in educational establishments and high schools...


De Niro talks to Bates grads, gets honorary degree
As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.


The Texas Tribune: Houston Community College Helps Expand Educational Options in Qatar
Less than two years after Community College of Qatar opened in partnership with Houston Community College, 11 students became the country’s inaugural community college graduates.


Quiet Revolution's old dreams fuel Quebec protests
Quebec's generous social services date back to sweeping reforms in the 1960s, a period of intense nationalism. Yet many Quebecers look back at the "Quiet Revolution" with regret over one unfulfilled promise: free higher education.


Kennedy widow asks Mass. grads to work for justice
The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called on Boston College Law School graduates to use training from their Catholic education to work for justice.


Romney faces tough questions in event driving education agenda
Mitt Romney took his newly announced education agenda to a west Philadelphia charter school on Thursday, where he was met by tough questions from both inside and outside the school.


Obama's Education Hypocrisy -- Again
    If you were a child in the District of Columbia school system (51st in state rankings for academic achievement, first for school violence), you and your parents probably greeted the election of Barack Obama with great joy. If someone had suggested to you then that the president would attempt to torpedo the scholarship program that permits some District kids to attend the private schools of their choice, you might have thought you were hearing racist smears.    But that is what happened. ...


Romney discusses education policy and class size in Philadelphia
At an inner-city school, he defends his claim that small classes don't necessarily improve student performance. PHILADELPHIA — Making a rare inner-city campaign stop, Mitt Romney preached the merits of traditional two-parent families and touted his platform of educational choice at a West Philadelphia charter school Thursday.


I Welcome Mitt Romney Using Education as a New Campaign Front
COMMENTARY | According to Reuters, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken time from his economic offensive against Democratic president Barack Obama to open a new front in the intense 2012 presidential election: Public schools.