Education News - 4 Jan 2008

PROVIDENCE - I entered the Culinary Archives & Museum with trepidation, fearing endless exhibits of soup tureens and salad forks, broken up by instructional videos on braising and refrigeration. My worries, thankfully, proved groundless. The museum, housed at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, does focus on food, but in its broadest sense: how its preparation, marketing, and consumption ...
Source: www.boston.com

The explosion set dozens of cars on fire and shattered the windows of buildings nearby, including one packed with students preparing for university entrance exams. Four of the dead were students, Durdu Kavak, chief prosecutor in the southeastern ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Government campaign to encourage young people with no family experience of university to consider applying
Source: education.guardian.co.uk

"Though the Education Ministry said it will garner opinions on the grading system for the college entrance test, we demanded measures to improve the system by early February due to strong complaints from students and parents." Universities will be given more autonomy in selecting students, as the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development will hand over college admission-related functions to college consultative bodies, ... via English Dong-A
Source: www.topix.com

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