The Parent-Teacher Talk Gains a New Participant

STREAMWOOD, Ill. — For years attendance was minimal at Tefft Middle School’s annual parent-teacher conferences, but the principal did not chalk up the poor response to apathetic or dysfunctional families. Instead, she blamed what she saw as the outmoded, irrelevant way the conferences were conducted.

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Empty Shelves, Filled With Imagination

WHEN Geri Ellner began her job this school year as the librarian — or in the current parlance, as a library media specialist — at the Brooklyn Collegiate, a public school for Grades 6 through 12 in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, she did not have much of a book collection.

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More white parents choose public schools

Her father, Tim Clo, was asked if he would send her to a public school in East Nashville, a working-class neighborhood that over the past decade has attracted legions of young professionals and their families.


The oddity was that East Nashville parents and neighbors seemed as interested in Kenya's education as her parents, Clo said. Parents were adamant that Clo should send his daughter to Lockeland Design Center elementary school.

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Teenage pregnancies go UP (despite free contraception and sex education for five-year-olds)

The number of teenage pregnancies leapt last year, despite all Labour's efforts to increase sex education and contraception among children and the young.

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Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students

American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat.

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Academy drops 'easy' A-levels for international test

The Government's education record was dealt a blow today after a new London academy said pupils will study the International Baccalaureate instead of A-levels.

The move to continental diplomas is a response to A-level "grade inflation", the decline in foreign languages at school and a desire to challenge pupils.

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College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

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Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Isobel Oliphant felt she was making an offbeat choice when she graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y., and enrolled at the ancient university in this quiet coastal town of stone ruins and verdant golf courses.

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