Iflove Education News and Reviews This Weekend: Education is the First Productivity
USC will disband German department
Basic language courses will still be offered, but critics say the decision to dump majors and minors will hurt the university’s academic reputation.
Cortines to help lead L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume
Veteran educator Ramon Cortines has accepted a job as senior deputy [...]

USC to eliminate the study of German as a major and dismantle German department
Basic language courses will still be offered, but critics say the decision to dump majors and minors will hurt the university’s academic reputation.
USC is eliminating the study of German as a major over the next three years and dismantling the department except [...]

Student beats high school art teacher, school officials call to deal with classroom violence
The beating of a high school art teacher by a student has prompted city and school officials to call for more resources to deal with classroom violence.
Art teacher Jolita Berry was beaten in an attack that was recorded on a cellphone camera [...]

Teachers Income Investigation: Teachers struggling to survive on income
Increasing numbers of teachers are struggling to cope with rising mortgage payments and living costs as the credit crunch continues, the Teacher Support Network (TSN) said today.
The teachers’ counselling service said it had dealt with more calls about housing concerns this year than ever.
It has awarded over [...]

Iflove Educational News and Academic Indicators This Week: Teaching and Education Resources
Schools news
Elite exam to rival A-levels approved
Critics fear disproportionate take-up by private schools Special report: A-levels
Teachers struggling to survive on income, says report
Increasing numbers of teachers struggling to cope with rising mortgage payments and living costs, according to counselling service
Council uses criminal law to [...]

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Low high school graduation rates in US cities
Seventeen of the US’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 per cent, [...]

Iflove Schooling and Educational Stories: Our Education, Our Future
Egypt: Drive to boost girls’ education
Thanks to a government and UN-sponsored drive to build over 1,000 ‘girl-friendly’ schools in seven Egyptian provinces, thousands of girls now have the opportunity for an education. About 1,063 schools have so far been built and 27,784 students enrolled. The ‘girl-friendly’ schools [...]

Iflove Education Reviews List: Educational Resources This Week
Teachers need time to teach
07 April 2008 4:11pm | PPTA
Parents have an unrealistic idea of what schools and teachers are funded for and are able to do, PPTA president Robin Duff says. This comes after it was revealed police had been called in by parents to investigate whether [...]

Some ideas for honoring women’s history: Celebrate Women’s History Month
Keywords: women’s history month    international women’s day    holiday ideas
March is Women’s History Month — at least, it is in the United States. (It’s October in Canada.) March 8, is International Women’s Day. (Why March 8? Read about it here.)
Here are some ideas for how to celebrate, [...]

Check how Congress uses tax dollars we paid
In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events.
Most members of Congress call them earmarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to get them called “legislatively directed spending.” But for almost every American taxpayer I’ve run into [...]