January 26, 2009


Archive for April, 2009

What is a new school?

New York City has adopted a new strategy in its effort to turn two Catholic schools into charter schools, and will no longer press for changes in state law to accomplish the conversion, The New York Times reports. City education officials have decided to try to get around a 1998 state ban on converting […]


Hail the text message

From The Salt Lake Tribune: Northridge High School in Layton, Utah, is one of a number of Utah schools that are starting to use cell phone text messaging as a tool rather than see it only as a menacing distraction. Throughout the state, coaches notify their players of schedule changes via text messages, and some […]


Back on the shelf

Filed under: — Mike @ 10:35 am

For those of you at Washington and Lee University wondering why the school library has been unable to fulfill your request to borrow the library’s copy of Volume 1 of W.F.P. Napier’s “History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814,” the university […]


Site of tragedy reopened

Nearly two years after Seung-Hui Cho took 32 lives in Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus, the university has reopened the front wing of the building. The Richmond Times-Dispatch says the 4,300-square-foot area has been converted into six new rooms and laboratories, and into the home of the new Center for Peace Studies and […]


Less school, less spending

One way schools can save money is not to have school so often. The Deseret News reports that the Utah State Board of Education has given school districts in the state permission to cancel school days to save money. Districts with budgetary problems can eliminate up to five regular school days from the 2010 school […]


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