News
International Education News Round-up
(April 6-12, 2009)
Data on schools website divides parents, educators
(Globecampus.com 04/08/2009 Karen Howlett)
The Ontario government's new website containing the socioeconomic and
immigrant backgrounds of students in the province's public schools
divides educators and parent groups.
Arizona college snubs Obama
(Inquirer.net 04/11/2009 AFP)
Arizona State University has snubbed President Barack Obama by
declining to give him an honorary degree on the grounds that America's
first black president has an insufficient "body of work."
History to stay in new curriculum
(BBC News 04/06/2009 Alison Smith)
History will remain a "central part" of England's primary school curriculum, Children's Secretary Ed Balls says.
Virginia Tech to reopen hall after tragedy
(Inquirer.net 04/11/2009 AFP)
Two years after the worst campus shooting in US history took the lives
of 32 students and teachers, Virginia Tech University reopens the
building where the tragedy unfolded.
Four-year-olds 'too young for school'
(The Independent 04/08/2009 Richard Garner)
Children should be allowed to delay the start of their compulsory
schooling until they are at least six, a third of all primary school
teachers say.
Report Envisions Shortage of Teachers as Retirements Escalate
(New York Times 04/07/2009 Sam Dillon)
Over the next four years, more than a third of America’s 3.2 million
teachers could retire, depriving classrooms of experienced instructors
and straining taxpayer-financed retirement systems, according to a new
report.
Tearaway pupils are terrorising us at home, say teachers
(Daily Mail 04/07/2009 Laura Clark)
Teachers are increasingly reporting obscene late-night phone calls,
broken windows, cruel graffiti daubed on garden walls and damage to
their cars, according to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
First 'Japanese' international school debuts
(Japan Times 04/12/2009)
The first international school to adopt the Japanese education system opens in Chiba's booming Makuhari area.
Schools hire bouncers for classroom 'crowd control'
(The Independent 04/12/2009 Richard Garner)
Bouncers and former military personnel are being hired by schools as "crowd control" to cover classes for teachers.
(Published 13 April 2009, Smart Communications, Inc.)
