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Boulder public schools work to provide more special-ed in regular classrooms
7.25.10 - Boulder Valley School District is trying to change the way it delivers special education and has enlisted national experts to help make school more inclusive

Troubled teens stay clean at safe-haven schools
7.25.10 - Advocates for teen substance abuse treatment who gathered in Boston last week said more school districts are looking to sobriety-intensive high schools as an alternative ...

The D.C. teacher firings
7.25.10 - A LOT OF LIP service is given to not tolerating bad teachers. Educators, politicians and even union leaders say that there is no place in the...

Underemployed One Year
7.25.10 - I was recently denied an unpaid internship position to which I had applied. Normally, I would have accepted defeat, disguised as a considerately worded e-mail

Backpacks Among the Briefcases
7.25.10 - Over 64,000 freshmen are about to descend on New York City campuses, where a frat abuts a homeless shelter, and dorms are an island away

Julia Steiny: Students should know the behavioral rules of the road
7.25.10 - Years ago, a group of seventh-grade girls at Bishop Middle School befriended me and asked that I stay with them as a mentor when they moved to their new school. The Providence School Department mercifully decided to close that school, which was dreadful - it has since reopened as a lovely school..