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International Education News Round-up
(January 4-10, 2010)
Schoolchildren told to avoid Wikipedia
(The Telegraph 01/06/2010 Graeme Paton)
Educators in England warn students to be extremely wary when using Wikipedia.
More than 10,000 UK schools have been shut by snow
(BBC News 01/06/2010)
More than 10,000 schools across the UK have been shut or disrupted because of ice and snow.
Too much rap, not enough proper poetry, says former laureate
(The Guardian 01/07/2010)
Teachers are failing to stretch children's imaginations by giving them football chants and raps in literature lessons rather than poems that challenge them, the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion said.
Shop class to be replaced with job-training programs
(Sun Times 01/05/2010 Rosalind Rossi)
Shop and auto classes that kids meandered into as electives are being replaced with 21st century job-training programs under a new education reform.
Study reveals autism clusters in California
(Contra Costa Times 01/05/2010 Sandy Kleffman)
Researchers have discovered 10 autism clusters in California, mainly in areas where parents have higher-than-average education levels.
Jobs blow for graduates as companies refuse to hire
(The Guardian 01/06/2010 Jessica Shepherd)
In a new survey, nearly 90% of small and medium size businesses said they will not recruit recent graduates during the recession.
Recession fuels shift from private to public schools
(USA Today 01/06/2010 John Zich)
Private schools in the USA, which educate about 5.8 million students, are projected to lose about 174,000 students, or about 3%, by next fall, compared to their 2006 enrollment.
Warning over academic 'brain drain'
(The Telegraph 01/07/2010 Graeme Paton)
Britain risks creating a “brain drain” of top professors under controversial plans to overhaul university funding, ministers have been warned.
(Published 11 January 2010, Smart Communications Inc.)
