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Search results for "national education policy" ...
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Renaissance 2010 Analysts
The two-part series with accompanying interactive Web graphics represents the most rigorous analysis to date of the performance of Chicago's Renaissance 2010 schools.
Tags: schools; Chicago Renaissance; national education policy; Richard Daley
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"Drinking at Duke"
In this two-part series, Sanette Tanaka examines the alcohol policy and drinking culture at Duke University. The reporter reveals differences in drinking policies between private and public universities, as well as examines the effectiveness of the "new associate dean," who has implemented an "education-based harm-reduction model" in an effort to curb "binge drinking among students."
Tags: alcohol; binge drinking; Tom Szigethy; Stanford; Harvard; Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research; UNC; Wake Forest; National College Health Assessment
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Selling Out Higher - Education Policy
The articles look at the power and influence deep-pocketed interests have on the making of higher-education policy in the nation's capital. The stories revealed that bankers from the student loan industry and for-profit colleges had donated almost $1 million to the members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The articles also show how those donations ended up being spent strengthening the Republican presence in the House.
Tags: politics; campaign contributions; lobbying; lobbyists
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Does Class Size Matter?
Reducing class size is the big trend in education reform. The question is does it work? Because if it doesn't it could be one of the most expensive policy failures ever. If it does work, the nation could reap the benefits for generations.
Tags: education; class size
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Second String: Gender inequality in high school athletics
Carl Prine, in a four-part series, details the gender inequalities in athletics at 129 high schools in southwestern Pennsylvania see how well the 1972 Title IX of the Educational Amendments is being enacted in schools. "At each school, the Trib examined the athletic program's participation rates; money spent on equipment, training, travel, uniforms and officials; and coaching salaries for the 1999-2000 school year." While the number of girls interested and playing sports is increasing, Prine investigates why the majority of high school athletic resources go to boys. The Tribune-Review found out that policy in some schools makes sure that two out of every three athletes are boys, for every tax dollar spent on sports, 69 cents goes to boys athletics, school booster clubs poured dollars - sometimes illegally - into boys while neglecting girls, some schools rarely hire female coaches or athletic directors, and few schools and districts hire people to oversee the enforcement of Title IX violations.
Tags: sports; Title IX; National Collegiate Athletic Association; Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association; Civil Rights Restoration Act; Office of Civil Rights; girls athletes
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Where the Party Never Ends
In These Times examines the loopholes in the gift rules that allow lawmakers to travel, eat and drink at lobbyists' expense. The story points to examples of senators and representatives receiving "education trips" to vacation spots, cheap concert tickets and free lunches. A major finding is that these dinners and junkets are important not only to the lobbyists and the organizations that pay for them . Lawmakers are dependent on the freebies, because they need the relationships with the big business in order to collect donations. "Until Congress imposes stricter campaign spending limits or implements some for of public financing of campaigns, national policy will continue to be dominated by wealthy players," the magazine reports.
Tags: subsidies; spending; federal funds; freebies; Common Cause; donations; campaign contributions; gifts
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Private College Presidents Enjoy Another Lucrative Year
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the increasing compensation packages of the chief executives of private colleges. The story reveals that "the number of presidents earning in the $400,000s and more than $500,000 took a substantial leap in the fiscal year 2000, while the number earning in the $300,000 dipped slightly." The report includes survey data about the pay and benefits of the top leaders of 600 private colleges and universities, as well as the institutions' expenditures and revenues for 1999-2000.
Tags: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education; stock options; deans; professors; faculty; research; doctoral universities; master's colleges and universities; baccalaureate colleges
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In Drug-Policy Debates, a Center at Columbia U. Takes a Hard Line: Institute's studies grab headlines, but critics call its approach oversimplified
The article analyzes the work of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The Center, run by the former Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, has become one of the loudest voices in the debate over drug policy. It largely adheres to the government's punitive and prohibitionist approach to the drug problem. The story shows that the center's views do not reflect the range of debate in the field. Because it receives substantial financing from industry, its views often drown out those of other scholars. The story alleges that the center characterizes anyone who disagrees with it views as drug "legalizers."
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Many Owners of Proprietary Schools Gave Generously to Member of Congress
The story looks at the federal campaign contributions that representatives of the nation's for-profit trade schools made to the lawmakers who sit on the House of Representatives Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, which sets the government's policies on these schools. Records provided by the Federal Election Commission indicated that between January 1995 and October 15, 1996, individual trade-school officials and the political-action committee of the Career College Association, which represents trade schools, had contributed $133,000 to these lawmakers. The donations were especially heavy because the 105th Congress will renew the Higher Education Act. (November 8, 1996)
Tags: FEC
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School & Community tells of the Czapla family's efforts to provide an education for their 4 - year - old son Marky, who tested positive for the HIV virus and died of AIDS at 13. When he enrolled in the Hillsboro school system, educators responded to a tragic and potentially explosive situation with sensitivity and grace. The policy they used is introduced as one that could be used effectively at other schools throughout the nation. (Spring 1996)