Education News from NY Times

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said educators needed a year to master a new curriculum before schools should be held accountable for results.    

In this lesson students grapple with the same questions all of America has been asking in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Extension activities allow students to research issues raised in the story, from immigration and foreign policy to civil liberties, and propose their own policy solutions.    

Understanding a college decision and celebrating it are two different things, a distinction that can elude even the most enthusiastic supporters.    

Why do you think more male professional athletes have not come out?    

Why do you think so many people are dying in garment factories in Bangladesh? What should be done to make working conditions safer?    

Can you choose the best antonym for “sporadic,” as it is used in the article?    

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Two Massachusetts community colleges are trying a modified approach to an open online computer science course, but at different paces.    

State financing for preschool programs fell close to 10 percent in the 2011-12 school year, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.    

New Community College in Manhattan will be renamed for Stella and Charles Guttman, whose foundation is giving CUNY an additional $10 million.    

Fill in the blanks in the first six paragraphs of the article “Anarchy in the Met” by Jon Caramanica.    

Will Walker, who was accepted to Williams College under a binding early decision application, felt like he “made a mistake” just before a recent campus visit.    

What are your favorite things? Have they always been your favorites?    

Every Monday we publish a New York Times photo without a caption, headline or other information about its origins. Join the conversation by posting about what you see, and why.    

Rather than recommend majors of the future, here are four activities to help develop the skills necessary to succeed in the work force of tomorrow. If you focus on these activities, the majors won’t matter as much.    

Who challenged a tradition in how proms had been conducted in a rural Georgia county?    

Can you calculate a specific measurement of a boxing ring?    

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