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Higher Education | Alabama Two-year College Officials Plan for Disasters

EducationNewsToday | Final Rules Unveiled for 'i3' Innovation Fund

EducationNewsToday | NAEP Board Curbs Special Ed. and ELL Exclusions

EducationNewsToday | Troubled school board association must be saved, education leaders say

EducationNewsToday | DPS deficit grows under Bobb

EducationNewsToday | Health Problems Fuel Achievement Gaps, Study Says

Children Count Too

Children Count Too is a new campaign about the importance of counting infants and young children in the 2010 Census.

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California's College Dreamers

3.10.10 - When will students figure out the politicians have sold them out? Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week.... 

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Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says

3.10.10 - A Senate panel learned that more students in more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the United... 

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Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing

3.10 - Rafaela Espinal, facing camera, the principal of Public School 125 in Harlem, takes prospective parents on a tour. One selling point is the school’s swimming pool... 

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Art, music, PE classes on Broward schools hit list

Amid outcry from parents and School Board members, Broward will consider how to cut back on elective classes without entirely eliminating programs.

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• LAUSD: Pay cuts a must to avoid layoffs
• Federal agency to investigate L.A. schools
• Final Rules Unveiled for 'i3' Innovation Fund
• NAEP Board Curbs Special Ed. and ELL Exclusions

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Scholar Diane Ravitch: 'We've lost sight' of schools' goal

3.10.10 - Greg Toppo - The education historian supported No Child Left Behind at first, but has since drastically changed...

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• Grier wants new offers to run alternative school
• Labour's push for 50% to attend university 'has devalued degrees'
• Judge to end oversight of city schools
• Jay Mathews: Ravitch, unpredictable, still likes NCLB basics

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The Rationale for Preparing Mature Adults as Teachers of Diverse Children in Urban Poverty

3.5.10 - Martin Haberman - Seven thousand youth drop out of school everyday. The achievement gaps between racial groups and economic classes continues to widen. The persistentshortage of teachers who can be effective in 120 failing urban school systems guarantees that the miseducation of seven million diverse children in urban poverty will continue. 

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• Raine ADHD Study: Long-term outcomes associated with stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD in children
• Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn - What They Don’t Teach in School
• SUNY Geneseo Leverages Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer to Monitor Network Behavior during RIAA Crackdown and Beyond
• THE DATA IS IN: WHAT WORKS IN ALTERNATIVE TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM DESIGN

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