Wednesday, May 12, 2010

EducationNews.org Experts: Home-schooling doesn’t add up

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Experts: Home-schooling doesn’t add up

5.11.10 - More than 22,620 Texas secondary students who stopped showing up for class in 2008 were excluded from the state's dropout statistics because

Iraq On Air: Should Girls Study?

5.12.10 - The program takes on taboo issues in Iraqi society, particularly those among the country's booming younger generation (60 percent of the Iraqi population is under the age of 25)....
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Arizona bill targeting ethnic studies signed into law

5.12.10 - A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such classes divisive and alarming others...
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One-third of students need remedial college math, reading

5.12.10 - Nationwide, about a third of first-year students in 2007-08 had taken at least one remedial course, according to the U.S. Department of Education. At public two-year colleges, that...
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