Education News - 2 Jan 2008

Tipoff: 1 p.m., DeCarlo Center, University Heights. Notable: The Blue Streaks (4-5) won the Zimmerman Tournament at Wittenberg University last weekend. Balanced scoring has been the key as only two players are averaging 10 points. . . . The Golden Flyers (2-5) have lost three straight.
Source: www.cleveland.com

Stewart squirms when the conversation turns to that subject, saying only that he is “confident the administration will pick the finest football candidate they can for the program at West Virginia University, no matter the outcome of this game ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

"We wanted learning vocabulary to be fun, be easy for kids, kind of a chill thing" HURST -- Josh Burk scored a 1540 out of a possible 1600 on his SATs.That, combined with his status as a National Merit Scholar, which is based on pre-SAT scores, won the home-schooled student a free education at Ouachita Baptist University, in Arkadelphia, Ark.Now he's trying to help others succeed on the SAT.He has released his first book, The Summer of Saint Nick, a novella for young teens -- with an educational twist.Scattered throughout the book, readers will find 300 SAT-level vocabulary words, which are boldfaced, used in context in the story and defined at the bottom of the page. Read more
Source: www.topix.com

Terence Kealey: Who is the most dangerous university chancellor in Britain?
Source: education.guardian.co.uk

Sally Smith, the founder of the widely respected Lab School of Washington and a professor of special education at American University, died Dec. 1.
Source: www.edweek.org