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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Let’s Make a Deal: How to Help Fading (and Failing) Students at the End of the Year EducationNews.org

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Let’s Make a Deal: How to Help Fading (and Failing) Students at the End of the Year

5.19.10 - Matt Amaral - The reason I like the end of the year so much is because it is such a clean break. At no

Bethesda play space in religious controversy

5.19.10 - In the days before three Montgomery County kindergarten classes were slated to go on a field trip to the Be With Me Playseum, an indoor play space in Bethesda, the...
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Education Secretary Steps Into a Minefield in Brooklyn

5.19.10 - Among other changes, states can score points by raising the number of charter schools. The New York Senate has passed a bill to do just that, but the teachers’ unions are fighting...
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Some Head Start workers commit fraud so kids qualify, investigators say

5.19.10 - Undercover investigators trying to enroll a handful of fictitious children in federally funded Head Start child care centers found that in about half of the cases, workers fraudulent