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Virginia is adopting NRA Eddie Eagle program at a time of budget cuts.
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(Jahi Chikwendiu-TWP)Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 04/22/2010
Bill Gates's college tour
Bill Gates just finished his three-day 2010 College Tour, during which he went five of the country's most elite schools and urged the brightest minds to work on overcoming the world's biggest problems. In the United States, urban education is one of those problems, but Gates's own record on school reform is hardly stellar.
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Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 04/21/2010
Why waste time on a foreign language?
We tell our children that their Spanish or Russian or Arabic or Japanese studies are important. But we give them high grades for little progress. Most colleges don’t require that applicants have more than two years. And from what I can see, based on what actually happens in high schools, learning a foreign language often is a waste of time.
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Ed Buzz: The Nation
- 56,000 images taken by Web cams on Penn. student laptops (USA Today)
- N.J. voters being asked to pay more for less (New York Times)
- Rule change takes aim at loophole in Title IX (New York Times)
- Illinois school fighting cyber-bullying(Chicago Tribune)
- Boston teachers asked to work more hours for same pay (Boston Globe)
- Advocates weigh Obama's commitment to early ed. (Education Week)
- N.Y. bill would allow layoffs of teachers with seniority (New York Times)
- Bilingual ed., immersion work equally well (Education Week)
- Schools tackle teacher-on-teacher bullying (USA Today)
- English-language learners making gains (Education Week)
- Researchers argue over Head Start study (Education Week)
Ed Buzz: The Region
- Va. gets $59.8 million to overhaul struggling schools (Washington Times)
- Are school lunches a threat to national security? (WUSA)
- MoCo school investigates cyber-bully threats (WUSA)
- P.W. dad wins FOIA fight with school board (Potomac News)
- Program teaches science of video games (Richmond Times-Dispatch)