School administrators in Simsbury, a town in the U.S., and other high school districts now require their students to take tests to check whether they are drunk before they can attend school dances on campus. All students are required to breathe into a breathalyzer to see if they have drunk alcohol.
Howstuffworks details how a breathalyzer [...]
Jane Mendillo has been appointed as the new president of the Harvard Management Company. Mendillo, who has had different positions at Harvard for over 15 years, plans to stay at the company for a long time.
MarketWatch reports that the Harvard Management Company has the largest university endorsement of $35 billion.
Harvard University said Thursday it selected [...]
The United States of America has always been the center of STEM education (The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in the world and with the present growth in technologies, more attention is required to be paid to its education system in high schools.
The calls to improve education in the STEM fields is not new but [...]
Public education continues to be somewhat of a taboo for many Muslim students across the United States. As a result, some are now turning to home schooling because of discrimination against Muslim children at school.
The New York Times reports that as many of 40 percent of Muslim children enrolled are instead home-schooled.
Even estimates on the [...]
The Bloomberg administration has approved the new promotion policy that requires next year’s eighth graders to pass core courses and score at a basic level on English and Math standardized exams. The Panel for Education Policy approved the proposal of the new policy by a vote of 11 to 1 during its meeting at Tweed [...]
The Harvard denouncements of two Muslim religion practices — whether the call to prayer should sound out across campus and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours — have resulted in heated discussion and debate at the university.
The debates and heated discussions started in February, when the Harvard undergraduate college prevented Muslim women [...]
The Assembly in New York has passed a bill to ban city and other school districts linking tenure with the test score results of students. In order to decide on teachers tenure, the State legislation requires schools to follow the standards of the Board of Regents.
The Times Herald Record reports that New York City already [...]
State officials in Idaho plan to include chess education in the school curriculum for second and third graders. Idaho will be using a curriculum called First Move, which has been developed by America’s Foundation for Chess.
Ledger.com reports that the State’s education budget will finance all the necessary expenses.
The state’s $1.5 billion education budget, passed two [...]
Thanks to globalization, benchmarking is becoming a significant way to prepare students for leadership worldwide. The National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve, the standards-advocacy group, are analyzing how well the U.S. is doing in comparison with other countries.
According to Free Management Library, benchmarking is an analysis of both quantitative [...]
Residents in Sachem, one of the largest school districts in the state of New York, have approved a $33.1 million issue for repairs, renovations and enhancement plans in each of Sachem’s 18 schools. The voting took place at all district elementary schools on Tuesday.
Newsday.com reports that the cap will rise to four percent for the [...]