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1) Judge Rejects Challenge to Bush Education Law
Thursday, November 24, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/politics/24child.html
New York Times
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
A federal judge said the federal government can require states to
spend their own money to comply with No Child Left Behind. <snip>


2) STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TURNS TO VOUCHERS
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/living/education/13271321.htm
Monday, November 28, 2005 Wichita Eagle
BY STEVE PAINTER, Eagle Topeka bureau
Plan would use taxes to fund charter schools Fresh from its
controversial evolution decision, the Kansas State Board of
Education is preparing to delve into the issue of diverting
public money to private schools.
Board members could decide next month whether to approve vouchers
for at-risk and special-education students and make it easier to
establish charter schools -- proposals supported by
Education Commissioner Bob Corkins.
Unlike the decision to encourage more criticism of evolution in
science classes, however, the school choice proposals
will require the approval of lawmakers.
Kansas lawmakers have never approved vouchers and have granted
local school boards veto power over charter schools in their districts. <snip>



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3) Students Not Ready for Prime Time
http://tinyurl.com/bqe3f
Colleges find many lacking
Students fall short in math, English and put in remedial courses
By Jodi S. Cohen Tribune higher education reporter November 20, 2005
In the lowest-level writing class at Columbia College, freshmen learn
about the pitfalls of run-on sentences and the correct places for
commas. In basic math, they learn about fractions, decimals and simple
geometry.
Sarah Rehder didn't expect to start college in either of these courses.
A graduate of Curie High School in Chicago, she assumed she was prepared
for college.
But like many students in the state and nationwide, Rehder learned
through a college placement exam that she wasn't ready for college-level
coursework. Now she's learning--and paying for--material that she
arguably should have mastered in high school.
"I thought high school was supposed to prepare you for college," said
Rehder, 18, a photography major and the first in her family to attend
college. "I'm just doing the same thing over again that I did in high
school. I didn't learn anything." <snip>

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4) Parents' Effect on Achievement Shaky
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101287_pf.html>
Other Factors May Play Greater Role, Study Says
By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer November 22, 2005; A10
Maria Allen, a parent who has been critical of her Fairfax County
school system, recently called the principals of three Richmond
elementary schools to find out why -- and how -- it is that their
low-income black students were doing better than similar students in her school system.
Their answer was telling, she said.
"The bottom line is this," Allen said one principal told her. "We
don't have an expectation of the home. We don't blame the home. We
can't teach parents. We don't worry about whose responsibility it
should be. We just consider it ours."
Parental involvement is often cited as vital to raising student
achievement. The best schools usually have the most school-oriented
parents, many experts say. So doesn't it make sense that all schools
need that kind of support at home?
But a new study of low-income public schools in California has
concluded that several other factors, including teaching the state's
rigorous academic content and getting experienced teachers, have much
more influence on achievement than does parents' involvement. The
findings have inspired a national debate on the subject, with some
parents like Allen saying the study is correct and others saying
parental influence should not be so quickly dismissed.
<snip>

5) GAO Report on FCC's Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Process, Nov.
10, 2005
Abstract
Telecmmunications: Preliminary Information on the Federal
Communications Commission's Spectrum Allocation and Assignment
Process, GAO-06-212R, November 10, 2005
<http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-06-212R>
PDF: <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06212r.pdf>
Accessible Text: <http://www.gao.gov/htext/d06212r.html>
The radiofrequency spectrum is a natural resource used to provide
an array of wireless communications services, such as mobile
voice and data services, radio and television broadcasting,
radar, and satellite-based services, which are critical to the
U.S. economy and national security. Historically, concern about
interference among users has been a driving force in the
management of spectrum. The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC)--an independent agency that regulates spectrum use for
nonfederal users, including commercial users--and the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)--an
agency within the Department of Commerce that regulates spectrum
for federal government users--have worked to minimize
interference through the "allocation" and "assignment" of
spectrum. Allocation involves designating "bands" of spectrum for
specific types of services or classes of users, such as
designating certain bands for commercial use and others for
government use. <snip>


6) New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5315
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (PG) - US intelligence chief John Negroponte announced
Tuesday the creation of a new CIA-managed center to exploit publicly
available information for intelligence purposes.
The so-called Open Source Center will gather and analyze information from a
host of sources from the Internet and commercial databases to newspapers,
radio, video, maps, publications and conference reports.
Douglas Naquin, the center's director, said it will build on the work of the
CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which once monitored and
translated foreign radio broadcasts but has since expanded its reach to other
media. <snip>


7) Scientists, be on guard ... ET might be a malicious hacker
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1650649,00.html
Ian Sample science correspondent November 25, 2005 The Guardian
As if spotty teenagers releasing computer viruses on to the internet
from darkened rooms were not enough of a headache. According to a
scientific report, planet Earth's computers are wide open to a virus
attack from Little Green Men.
The concern is raised in the next issue of the journal Acta
Astronautica by Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the US Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. He believes scientists
searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations
are putting Earth's security at risk, by distributing the jumble of
signals they receive to computers all over the world.
The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) project, based at
the University of California in Berkeley, uses land-based telescopes
to scour the universe for electromagnetic waves. Just as stray radio
and TV broadcasts are now zooming away from Earth at the speed of
light, the Seti scientists hope to pick up stray signals, or even
intentional interplanetary broadcasts, emitted from other
civilisations.
All signals picked up by Seti are broken up and sent across the
internet to a vast band of volunteers who have signed up for a Seti
screensaver, which allows their computers to crunch away at the
signals, when they are not at their desks. <snip>

8) Web Sites Offer Private Cell Phone Information
http://www.local6.com/money/5416040/detail.html
A Problem Solvers investigation has discovered that several Web sites
will sell the last 100 phone numbers you have dialed to anyone who
knows your phone number.
The report found that sites like Locate Cell will sell the private
phone numbers for about $100.
Once the fee is paid on the Web sites, anyone can get access to the
phone numbers, including bank, doctor and work numbers, Local 6 News
reported.
The Web sites are not illegal, according to the report.
If you believe someone has found your private information through a
cell phone number, you are urged to contact the Florida Attorney
General's Office.
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