More males (289,675) than females (209,818) dropped out of grades 9-12 in public schools in school year 2004-05.

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Source: NCES

UCLA's Seeds school wants to spread success
Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times
Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School at UCLA has a rich history of providing experimental teaching to students lucky enough to secure a spot at its wooded Westwood campus. Now, the quasi-private, quasi-public-laboratory school is embarking on a mission to make its research-based programs more widely available by opening satellite campuses in low-income communities.

Students With Disabilities Said to Benefit From NCLB
Christina A. Samuels, Education Week
The accountability systems created by the federal No Child Left Behind Act have led to some benefits for students with disabilities, but it’s too soon to link the law with improved academic outcomes for such students, according to a presidential advisory group. This report written by the Educational Policy Institute.

Grants Would Finance Private Schooling
Davide M. Herzenhorn, The New York Times
President Bush’s call for a $300 million program called Pell Grants for Kids is the latest effort by his administration to channel tax dollars to low-income parents to help them send their children to private or religious schools.

Two L.A. Unified schools take back control
Howard Blume, The LA Times
Under a reform concept, district bureaucracy will hand over leadership to teachers, parents and students at Crenshaw and Westchester high schools.

Rethinking Remedial Education
Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed
Across California, community college leaders are writing action plans for improving so-called “basic skills” (otherwise known as remedial or developmental) and English as a Second Language education as part of a system-wide initiative.

University applications far outpace openings 'Bumper crop' of high school grads causing crunch
NACAC
California's public universities - every single one - are fielding a record number of undergraduate applications when many schools are reducing spots for incoming students.

Community college proposition proves divisive
Sherry Saavedra, San Diego Union-Tribune
Hardly anyone disputes that the 109 public community colleges in California are underfunded, but this initiative underscores disagreement over the right time and the right way to fix that. The state's two largest teachers unions are divided over Proposition 92, as are business groups.

Month abroad for trainee teachers
BBCNews
Trainee teachers who will provide compulsory language lessons in primary schools are benefiting from a month's placement abroad, say inspectors.

Overregulation Hampers Higher Education in India, an Advisory Group Reports
Shailaja Neelakantan, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Indian government's "rigid organizational structures with territorial mind-sets" are hampering the reform of the country's higher-education system, says a report released Saturday by the National Knowledge Commission, an advisory body whose recommendations are nonbinding.

Teacher Labor Abuses in China Chronicled
Sean Cavanaugh, Education Week
As China’s economy surges, many of the workers powering that growth are coping with low wages, scarce legal protections, and poor on-the-job conditions—not just in mines and factories, but also in classrooms, a leading labor advocate from that country contends.

Would you like a diploma with those fries?
The Globe and Mail
The British government has given McDonald's and two other large corporations the power to award the equivalent of advanced high-school qualifications.

Universities falling apart, ‘need billions’: Council
The Ontario Star
Ontario’s universities are lagging behind their American counterparts and need billions in the coming provincial budget to fix crumbling classrooms and modernize dated campuses, the president of the Council of Ontario Universities said today.

MSVU offers NSCC tourism students university option
Kristen Lipscombe, The Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald
Two of the province’s post-secondary institutions are teaming up to offer more choices for tourism students.

Alberta business school on rise
Gordon Pitts, The Globe and Mail
The University of Alberta's business school rose strongly in global standings of MBA faculties this year, bucking the generally downward trend for top Canadian schools in the closely watched Financial Times standings.

University bypassed in teacher downgrade
Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald
TAFE teachers, who also deliver Higher School Certificate vocational courses, will no longer need to complete university training under a State Government decision to lower the level of their qualifications.

Back to school for Queenslanders
The Herald Sun
MORE than 700,000 students start school in Queensland today, with the State Government promising the "essentials", from British colonisation to how to read a pie chart, will be taught.

Koorie college keeps funding
Stuart Rintoul, The Australian
AN Aboriginal college in Victoria has been allowed to remain open despite a scathing report by leading Aboriginal academic Chris Sarra, who found it had "failed dramatically" to boost Aboriginal education and instead had become a dumping ground for problem children.

Green Lights & Red Tape: Improving Access to Financial Aid at California’s Community Colleges
The Institute for College Access and Success
A recent report focuses on institutional policies and practices that may impact students’ access to financial aid. The report’s findings and recommendations are based on visits to 21 colleges representing a broad cross-section of the California Community Colleges, a review of the most recent available research, and interviews with experts on community colleges, financial aid, and related fields.

Global MBA Rankings
The Financial Times
The Financial Times Ranks Global MBA Programs.

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