Education News from NY Times

The Bloomberg administration had previously said that it needed 10 years to complete the job.    

After Christine Rubino, a fifth-grade teacher in Brooklyn, posted some rather impolitic comments about her students on Facebook in 2010, the Department of Education fired her.    

Providence Hogan pleaded guilty to embezzling $82,000 while treasurer of the Public School 29 Parent-Teacher Association in Brooklyn and has fallen behind on scheduled repayments.    

Last year, new Hispanic high school graduates became more likely than their white counterparts to go directly to college, according to a study.    

How many times will you check Facebook, Twitter, your e-mail, or another tab on your Internet browser as you read this post? Invite your students to join our virtual discussion about digital distraction by May 28. We’ll choose favorite comments to feature in a separate post in June.    

To honor Mother’s Day, celebrated in the United States this Sunday, this week’s Poetry Pairing matches “To Any Reader” by Robert Louis Stevenson with the article “On the Road, With Mothers” by Joyce Wadler.    

Leobardo Espinoza Jr., a high school senior in Kansas, will never have a final decision from Stanford or Brown Universities, and he’s “perfectly fine with that.”    

If you were in charge of planning a little free library for your community, where would you put it, what would it look like, and what books would you put in it to start? Why?    

Why do you think mainstream corporations are interested in having rappers endorse their products in general?    

What is the best word for the blank in this sentence about an encounter with an octopus?    

See what you know about the news of the day.    

This word has appeared in 366 New York Times articles in the past year.    

Revelations about shared quiz answers, unearned grades and bribes prompted changes in the way an English course at the college in Manhattan is run.    

In this lesson, students learn about the mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees across the country, discuss possible causes and potential solutions, and participate in a citizen science project to census honeybees in their neighborhoods.    

Universities are working to diversify their student bodies in states like California, which has eliminated race-conscious admissions.    

Some unemployed parents and their children, who have an entrepreneurial spirit but lack the experience or capital to start a business alone, are deciding to join forces.    

Families employ all kinds of real-estate strategies to get their children into good public schools.    

When did Ms. Berry, Ms. DeJesus and Ms. Knight disappear?    

This year’s high school freshmen may be among the first students to sit for the digital version of the exam, if they take the test during the spring of their junior year.    

Do you think smart glasses take technology too far? Will they invade our privacy when people can so easily shoot videos or record conversations secretly? Will they distract drivers – or students in the classroom?