School selection comes under fire
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City academies should lose control of their admissions to create a more mixed intake, says a think-tank.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  The race is officially on for the lovers and haters of the proposed private school voucher program, who are trying to gather support before the Nov. 6 election.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison has long been an attractive target for elite schools like Harvard and Stanford looking for top academics. But now other public universities are among the faculty poachers, and school administrators are worried.
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An official report suggesting that French children should be forced to learn English in school from the age of eight has provoked an outcry among nationalists, teachers and unions.
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Dartmouth College has been repeatedly roiled in recent weeks over the way some students are treating the very people the school was founded to help: American Indians.
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Media & professional: University applicants will be judged on their schools as well as grades.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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A clash at a charter school in New York has exposed fault lines of wealth and class that are perhaps inevitable as philanthropists increasingly invest in public education.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school assignment plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts. The decisions could imperil similar plans nationwide. The Court also blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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day shot down a proposal to create a &quot;multiracial&quot; box on freshman application forms -- a plan suggested by Regent Ward Connerly that quickly became a flashpoint in lingering debates over affirmative action.
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Bridgewater and Raynham share a regional school system, but they do not always share an education vision. And once again, their uneasy partnership is being put to a test.
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The public is a bit fickle about its schools, with mixed or even contradictory views about testing, vouchers and other education topics, a poll finds.
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Quantitative measures, the controversial linchpin of the Bush administration&#39;s approach to improving education, appear to have exposed performance problems with a favored alternative to public schools: the charter school.
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A former education adviser to Tony Blair warns school admissions policy is creating confusion for parents.
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The school attended by university applicants remains key to deciding whether they get a place, a study finds.
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'Covert admission practices' discriminate against poorer families, schools minister says