http://www.boston.com/news/globe/education en-us 2007-11-15T03:51:28Z http://www.boston.com/ http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/bcom_logo_140w.gif http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/14/john_kernochan_top_copyright_law_professor?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education John M. Kernochan - a leading professor of copyright law and the founder of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia University - died Oct. 29 at his home in Jamaica Plain. He was 88. Dennis Hevesi, New York Times News Service 2007-11-14T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/14/panel_likely_to_back_student_loan_changes?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education WASHINGTON - The $85 billion student loan industry and the sprawling US college aid system it serves are in for another round of changes under legislation expected to win easy approval today from a congressional panel. Reuters 2007-11-14T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/13/northeastern_president_tops_pay_list?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education The $2.3 million exit package Richard Freeland received upon stepping down as president of Northeastern University last year earned him the distinction of apparently being the country's highest-paid private college president. But several specialists on college presidents' contracts and compensation said yesterday that the top ranking was misleading because it reflected a decade of deferred benefits paid out in a ... Peter Schworm, Globe Staff 2007-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/13/player_called_to_coaching?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education A few years ago, Jim Unis was a football player, not just a player, but a star. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2007-11-13T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/12/umass_amherst_students_plan_to_strike?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Student government leaders are urging University of Massachusetts at Amherst students to skip classes Thursday and Friday to protest a range of grievances they say university administrators have consistently ignored. Peter Schworm, Globe Staff 2007-11-12T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/12/a_lesson_for_the_ages?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Jim St. Clair has been teaching kindergarten for 32 years, mostly at the Amigos School in Cambridge. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2007-11-12T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/12/new_ruling_tests_schools_under_desegregation_orders?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education NEW YORK - Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., say they will have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It will mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. Allen G. Breed, Associated Press 2007-11-12T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/12/dean_sees_wharton_as_a_force_for_change?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education PHILADELPHIA - Wharton School's new dean, Thomas Robertson, is the antithesis of one of the business school's most famous graduates, Donald Trump. Associated Press 2007-11-12T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/rural_miss_elementary_school_falls_behind?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education COMO, Miss. - Of all the nation's elementary schools, the one serving this poor, rural crossroads is at the bottom of the heap. Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/va_teens_antiabortion_club_a_reality?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education WASHINGTON - For Stephanie Hoffmeier, it came down to believing in a power higher than a school system. Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/schools_trying_to_curb_staph?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education In Tewksbury, teachers are asking children to wash their hands for as long as it takes to sing the alphabet song. Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/accidental_voyeurs?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education WHEN JIM BECKER, a systems engineer who lives in Maryland, first started receiving "Dear Mom" e-mails from a stranger, he just ignored them. Carolyn Y. Johnson 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/suit_prompts_college_to_defend_spending?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education TULSA, Okla. - A Beverly Hills house and country club membership. Vacations in Palm Springs and the South Seas. A closet as big as an apartment, stuffed with hundreds of pairs of shoes, suits, dresses, and golf shoes. Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/circle_of_young_winners_stages_a_thunderous_performance?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Students from 12 public elementary schools sang, rapped, and danced, and all 360 of them were winners. 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/sale_of_school_site_approved_for_housing?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Town Meeting in Wakefield last week authorized the Board of Selectmen to sell the former Montrose School property on Lowell Street and approved a zoning change needed for redevelopment of the site. 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/options_sought_for_old_school_building?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education CARLISLE - The fate of the town's first two-story schoolhouse is in limbo after its renter and the School Department were unable to reach a new lease agreement for the 99-year-old building. Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/defraying_the_high_cost_of_a_degree?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Students from middle- and working-class families have been forced to borrow huge sums of money in recent years to pay for college, often saddling them with hefty loan payments long after graduation. Peter Schworm and Linda K. Wertheimer, Globe Staff 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/easy_out?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education RUSSELL PECK CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET BY ACCIDENT. IT HAPPENED at camp the summer after his freshman year at Concord-Carlisle High School: One day Peck heard several female friends giggling over an attractive older boy, and the next thing he knew, he had joined the conversation. "The girls were talking about how cute he was. I said something like ... Alison Lobron 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/iranians_provide_doses_of_reality?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education What has life been like for regular Iranians since the shah fell in 1979 and an Islamic fundamentalist government rose up? Leslie Brokaw 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/polishing_the_welcome_wagon?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education A colorful sign greets visitors in the entryway of the adult Community Learning Center in Central Square: Irrashai. Benvenuto. Swagat Cha. Victoria Cheng, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/young_scientists_impress_at_contest_win_big?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education As most of their schoolmates were enjoying the break on a long weekend, 16 high school students spent the time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiling their solutions to problems ranging from E. coli poisoning to insufficient bone growth. Michael Naughton, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/11/schools_trying_to_stay_ahead_of_staph_infections?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education In Tewksbury, teachers are asking children to wash their hands for as long as it takes to sing the alphabet song. Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/the_lessons_of_butch?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Lasting relationships can begin in an instant. Planets align and people meet and, after a glance or a few words, you can extrapolate 40-some years down the line and, behold, you know you'll still be talking and meeting and helping each other. Joseph Healy 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/11/a_handout_not_a_hand_up?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education A popular approach to 'sustainable development' doesn't work, critics say THE HOLY GRAIL of international development has long been sustainability - creating markets and institutions that will flourish after Western donors have gone home. Christopher Shea 2007-11-11T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/10/northeastern_sues_google_over_patent?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Northeastern University and a start-up company cofounded by an associate professor have filed a patent-infringement suit against Google Inc., claiming that database technology patented in 1997 was misappropriated by the world's most popular Internet search service. Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff 2007-11-10T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/10/professor_is_interim_choice_to_lead_harvard_endowment?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Harvard Management Co., which invests the nation's largest university endowment, yesterday named Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan as interim chief executive. Robert Weisman, Globe Staff 2007-11-10T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/09/school_committee_member_resigns?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education A longtime Latino School Committee member in Boston has resigned amid accusations that he used a racial slur to denigrate a prominent Latino radio show host, sparking an uproar in the community. Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff 2007-11-09T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/09/motley_to_share_vision_for_umass_at_inauguration?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Chancellor J. Keith Motley, will outline plans to strengthen academic programs at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, while broadening student access to the city campus, in a speech marking his inauguration as the school's eighth chancellor. Peter Schworm, Globe Staff 2007-11-09T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/08/chelsea_school_repairs_could_cost_1m?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education CHELSEA - A chunk of ceiling plaster that fell inside a Clark Avenue School classroom while school was in session led to the discovery of a problem that could cost the School Department more than $1 million to fix. Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/08/bridgewater_voters_to_weigh_partial_split_in_school_district?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Bridgewater voters will decide next week in a Special Town Meeting whether to withdraw their local elementary and middle schools from the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District - a first step toward divorce between two towns that have long bickered over the school district they share. Christine Wallgren, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/08/schools_chief_calls_on_parents?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Milford's school district superintendent, Robert Tremblay, is calling for more involvement from parents, following the disappointing response to a survey conducted as part of the town's curriculum audit of the public schools. Nadia Salomon, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/11/08/in_baghdad_building_order_out_of_chaos?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education With his soft voice and scholarly manner, Saad Eskander doesn't seem like a person fresh from the front lines of a war. But as director of the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad, he has carried on his own four-year battle to preserve his country's cultural heritage. While most of his peers fled the country, and five ... David Mehegan, Globe Staff 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/08/young_thespians_do_what_it_takes_for_careers?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Education Instead of returning to Marblehead Community Charter School this fall, 11-year-old Joanna Rosen chose to be home-schooled so she could focus on performing. Wendy Killeen, Globe Corrrespondent 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z