A lesson even in failure
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff | Friday, December 18, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Editorials
Opponents of charter schools are, of course, taking a certain perverse glee in the possibility that two charter [...]
A lesson even in failure
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff | Friday, December 18, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Editorials
Opponents of charter schools are, of course, taking a certain perverse glee in the possibility that two charter [...]
Boston University's Web site biography of Sharon Daniels, head of the university's Opera Institute, has significantly embellished her career, The Boston Globe reported. The biography said she had starring roles with several top companies that either have no record of her performing or that say she played only minor [...]
Dear Diane,
Time to rest up and maybe start 2010 in a more hopeful mood.
I just put down an article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande entitled "Testing, Testing." But it's not about schooling, but medical tests. The author is a doctor at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital [...]
Now, if one believes the top priority at failing schools is to protect faculty and staff jobs, then the Senate's amendments make perfect sense. But if you think the fundamental purpose of schools is to [...]
Boston’s teachers’ union has killed a plan to pay bonuses to teachers whose students do well on the AP exam, reports the Boston Globe. An arbitrator has ruled the extra pay violates the union contract.
The district wanted to give math teachers at a Roxbury school $100 for each student [...]
Arbitrator decides high-scores reward violates contract
By James Vaznis
Globe Staff / December 14, 2009
www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/12/14/bonuses_for_hub_teachers_ruled_out/?page=full
An [...]
Antioch College's continued rebirth took another step forward Wednesday with the naming of an interim president, Matthew Derr, who has been serving as chief transition officer. Derr, formerly vice president for institutional advancement at the Boston Conservatory, will now oversee the restoration of the facilities, the hiring of key [...]
Dartmouth College leaders are issuing apologies and talking about making use of a "teachable moment" following ugly fan behavior directed at members of Harvard University's squash team, The Boston Globe reported. Cheering at a squash match between the two institutions' teams turned into personal name-calling by some Dartmouth fans,' [...]
Northeastern University will today announce an adjustment to its famous co-op program -- in which students mix extended semesters in a work environment along with traditional coursework -- that will allow students to complete the program in four years instead of five, The Boston Globe reported. Students in the [...]
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Boston University graduate student who owes $675,000 in damages to four record labels for illegal downloading can't be barred from encouraging others to download, The Boston Globe reported. The music companies wanted such an order, but Judge Nancy Gertner said that would' [...]
Joel Tenenbaum can bash the Recording Industry Association of America all he wants.
A judge today rejected the industry's request to gag Mr. Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who was ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels for music piracy, according to a Wired article. The RIAA had [...]
The father of a Harvard University sophomore who killed himself in 2007 is suing the institution, charging that negligence at the university's student health clinic led to the tragedy, The Boston Globe reported. The student sought help because he couldn't study as many hours as some friends, and he' [...]
The ouster of the director of the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design reflects considerable tensions not only over the director but about the role of the museum at the institution, The Boston Globe reported. John Maeda, the president at RISD, clashed with Hope Alswang, the ousted [...]
It’s rare that the editorial pages of the Boston Herald and Boston Globe agree – but they do on the MA House’s gutlessness on school reform. Another state that needs to get shut out in the first round of RTT unless it changes… Here’s the Herald:
In failing to adopt [...]
Eric Barron, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, returned to his alma mater this morning to interview for the president's job. He follows Kevin Bedell of Boston College, who was on campus yesterday.
Barron, formerly a dean at Penn State and at the University [...]
Boston College vice provost for research Kevin Bedell just wrapped up his interview with the search committee seeking a new president for Florida State University. He is the first of three applicants to be interviewed between today and Friday for the job now held by T.K. Wetherell, who is [...]
A “Race to the Top” flip-flop Fordham
Now states will be able to claim that they have “narrowed achievement
gaps” when all they’ve done is make their tests so easy to pass that
virtually all kids—black and white, rich and poor—do so, magically
erasing any group differences.
A Boston Globe article today on William Fitzsimmons, Harvard University's admissions dean, credits him with encouraging the university to be much more ambitious about recruiting and enrolling students who didn't grow up with much money or the expectation of going to a place like Harvard. The article notes that [...]
Note: This column was scheduled to appear on Nov. 25, but was not published until Nov. 30 due to an editing error.
Dear Diane,
I went up to Boston last weekend for the memorial service/celebration of Ted Sizer's life at Harvard's Memorial Church. Rituals can be wonderful things when we are [...]
Senior Harvard University officials -- especially then-president Lawrence Summers -- repeatedly ignored warnings that the university's investment strategies were placing far too much cash (needed for short-term spending) in risky investments, The Boston Globe reported. The placement of the cash in risky investments has been a key reason why [...]
Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei is gaining momentum in the MA Senate race.
Update: Boston Globe endorses Khazei.
[...]Five adjuncts at Massachusetts community colleges have sued the state, saying that they meet the requirements for receiving health insurance from their institutions but are being denied coverage unfairly, The Boston Globe reported. The adjuncts -- backed by the faculty union for the community colleges -- hope to change [...]
Some alumni and trustees are questioning the direction of Suffolk University, The Boston Globe reported. The university has grown rapidly in recent years, building up its facilities and paying top dollar to its president, but critics say they don't see enough attention on improving academic quality. University officials reply' [...]
It's expensive. It's numbers are few. But the so-called "residency" model of teacher preparation piloted in Chicago, Denver, and Boston has been gaining steam over the past five years. There are now examples in Memphis, Philly, and New York City. The President and [...]
Massachusetts officials, including Gov. Deval Patrick, are criticizing the University of Massachusetts at Amherst over an invitation to Ray Luc Levasseur, the founder of a radical group called the United Freedom Front, who was jailed and convicted for his role in a series of bombing attacks, The Boston Globe [...]
