(AP) NEW YORK – Hundreds of New York City teachers who are paid full salaries to do nothing while they await disciplinary hearings will be released from the city’s “rubber rooms” this fall, officials announced Thursday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers’ union announced a deal to reassign most of the teachers to administrative or nonclassroom work while their [...]

Newswise — The environmental community is voicing concern after President Obama suggested Congress might move an energy bill forward without a carbon-trading system in place.
According to Rafael Reuveny, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, the entire negotiation in Congress is “politics as usual” and meant to stall [...]

(The Washington Post) Soon after Arne Duncan left his job as schools chief here to become one of the most powerful U.S. education secretaries ever, his former students sat for federal achievement tests. This month, the mathematics report card was delivered: Chicago trailed several cities in performance and progress made over six years.
Miami, Houston and [...]

“She has written critically about legal opinions under Bush that addressed the war in Iraq, interrogation methods, a military tribunal system denying certain rights to detainees captured in the war on terrorism and Bush’s use of presidential signing statements to ignore provisions of new law.”
(Indystar.com) The nomination of the Indiana University professor tapped by President [...]

Let’s see what Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley Paul Pierson has to say to students at UC Berkley.
Here are some highlights from an interview regarding Pierson’s book Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy extracted [...]

(Pressconnects.com) More than $2.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds are pouring into Binghamton University research projects.
For many researchers, the funding will help them hire or retain employees and purchase equipment.
The funding includes:

(NPR) Students at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania are upset about a school rule requiring overweight students to take an exercise course in order to graduate. The rule applies to students with a body mass index above 30. James DeBoy, chair of the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Lincoln University, says the school [...]

(Salon) Officials say dozens of people occupying a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts have been arrested.
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told KGO-TV late Friday afternoon more than 40 people, at least some of them students, had been arrested and the protest appeared to [...]

(AZcentral.com) A Baylor University economics professor told lawmakers on Monday that Arizona’s private-school tax-credit scholarship program saved the state $44 million to $186 million last year.
Charles North’s analysis offered a substantially higher savings estimate for the state thanThe Arizona Republic’s estimate of $8.3 million over a period of nine years, published in an article last [...]

(www.dailybreeze.com) The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions to [...]