http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2010 MiamiHerald.com Education 60 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:05:35 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1471758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1471758.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Broward schools officials said Tuesday they would tackle a sometimes foggy and always sensitive topic: grading.<p/> As the rules stand now, at some schools the lowest possible grade is 0. At others, it is 50 percent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1463959.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1463959.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00 EST The University of Miami announced Thursday it has been awarded $14.8 million in stimulus money to help it build a neuroscience and health annex at its Coral Gables campus. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1456423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1456423.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:42 EST Eleven-year-old Maria Ordoñez helped organize a school bake sale that raised $409 for victims of the Haitian earthquake. Then the Sunset Elementary fifth-grader got a chance to do something more far-reaching: use her mighty pen -- or, in this case, keyboard -- to tell youngsters across the country about her community's response to the disaster. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1454024.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1454024.html Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:00 EST For parents enrolling in Florida's prepaid College Plan this year, it's a case of choose your sticker shock. <p/> On one side, there's the rapid, jaw-dropping increase in prepaid's price tag -- with one tuition category costing more than four times what it did just a year ago. It's enough to make some parents want to give up on the widely popular prepaid program. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1452058.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1452058.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:00 EST The Broward school district hired an outside firm to review the findings of an in-house audit that accused a contractor of overbilling $765,000 for repairs after Hurricane Wilma -- a move some members of the district's watchdog audit committee questioned Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1447874.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1447874.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:00 EST The music director had the students' attention with the first four notes:<p/> ``Da da da duuuuuuuuuuh. . .''<p/> The students' eyes lit up. They knew this piece. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1447980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1447980.html Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:12 EST The FCAT in Florida high schools might soon become a thing of the past. <p/> A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pressing ahead with a plan to replace the test with a series of standardized end-of-course exams. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1445889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1445889.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:00 EST Having already spent $16 billion to reduce class sizes -- and facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit -- leading Republicans including Gov. Charlie Crist want voters to reconsider their 2002 vote in favor of smaller classes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1443069.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1443069.html Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Planning for the next budget year is in its early stages at the Broward school district, but the financial picture already looks bleak.<p/> Broward will have to cut $47 million from its construction, maintenance and technology budget -- or lay off about 475 people from those departments, district budget directors said last week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1440887.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1440887.html Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Paula Garcia, 23, from Kendall, does not know how she will come up with up to $4,000 to study abroad in Italy during the summer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1439032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1439032.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:00 EST When Oriana Manhertz needs help with her homework, or a positive role model to chat with, she looks for somebody in a red jacket.<p/> ``Whenever you need their help, they're by your side,'' said Oriana, 10, a fourth-grader at Carrie P. Meek/Westview Elementary. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1436827.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1436827.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Florida Atlantic University has ambitious goals for a proposed medical degree program, saying it would turn the school into a top destination for biological sciences, and give the state a big economic boost. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434583.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434583.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00 EST For a few minutes Tuesday, it looked like Broward School Board members could change their minds about sitting out the Race to the Top contest for millions of federal dollars. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434596.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434596.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00 EST In Room A-213, Roxanne Díaz and Aura Rodriguez were extracting DNA samples from the potentially cancer-causing Helicobacter Pylori bacterium -- the same culprit behind stomach ulcers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434654.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1434654.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00 EST President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced his plans to extend the federal Race to the Top initiative for an additional year.<p/> The program, which will award a total of $4.35 billion to states with the best plans to shake up their school systems, was developed last year as part of the federal stimulus plan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1421972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1421972.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Turning their backs on millions of dollars -- and potentially controversial changes that come attached to the money -- a divided Broward School Board rejected signing on to the state's application for competitive federal grants, against the recommendation of Superintendent Jim Notter. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1421884.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1421884.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft will not seek reelection to her seat, she said Tuesday, shortly before Coral Springs parent and school district volunteer Shelly Solomon Heller filed to run for the post. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1414979.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1414979.html Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:00 EST The Broward School Board, regrouping after a year plagued by marathon meetings and a corruption scandal that has raised questions about how the school district does business, plans to shorten its meetings and make its workshops more accessible to the public, members said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1413080.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1413080.html Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:00 EST South Florida school districts will lose millions of dollars in funding because more students enrolled in public schools than the state was expecting. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1413073.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1413073.html Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Lawyers defending suspended Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher are still trying to work out a plea deal in her case, but they need more time to review evidence before negotiations move forward -- or before a trial, one of her attorneys said Wednesday.