Top Colleges Consider Deemphasizing Use of SAT and ACT scores in admissions

See Study of standardized admissions tests is big draw at college conference, NYT, 9/29/08, at A13

-discusses Seattle conference where standardized admissions testing being deemphasized

College Students Finding Financial Aid Drying Up

See Students' bitter lesson, NYP, 9/29/08, at 6

-financial aid lenders like myrichuncle.com, campus door, Bank of America not lending to students or at much higher rates

NYC Schools Bidding to Offer Online High Schools Towards Graduation

See
"Home work: City bids for online high schools, NYP, 9/29/08, at 2

NY City Council Moves to Add 2 Islamic Holy Days to School Calendar

See Islam bid on schools, NYP, 9/27/08, at 4

-10-12% of NYC school population presently Muslim

Growing Use of Educational Consultants for College Bound

See Navigators for the college bound, NYT, Jobs at p. 11

College Admissions Officers Looking at Student Social Networking Sites in Admissions Process

See Social networking has a catch, Bergen Record, 9/19/08, at L2

Education Panel Recommends Federally Financed College for Low Income Children

Panel proposes broad changes in federal financial aid for college, NYT, 9/19/08, at A11

City DOE Awards Bonuses to Well Performing Schools to Boost Pay for Performance

City to Give $14.2 million in bonuses to teachers at schools with improved report cards, NYT, 9/19/08, at B4

-$25,000 bonuses to 12 principals
-$1500-3000/teacher

Textbooks Increasingly Become Downloadable Online as Costs Rise

See Don't Buy that Textbook, Download it Free, NYT, 9/15/08

NYC Parent Groups Hiring Teachers Against NYCDOE Rules

See Elite PTAs' shadowy funds, NYT, 9/7/08, at 8

-PTAs boldly soliciting donations for extra instructors for their children, PTA hired teaching assistants

Nonprofit formed to assist Bloomberg with retaining mayoral control of the NYC schools

See A new campaign to keep schools under the mayor's thumb, NYT, 9/2/08, at B1

-Mayoral Accountability for School Success organized to assist Bloomberg in retaining mayoral control