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SETI Institute: SETI Institute Engages the Public and Celebrates Science

SETI Institute: SETI Institute Engages the Public and Celebrates Science

SETI Institute Engages the Public and Celebrates Science

Posted: 8/13/11 12:55 AM ET
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The cosmos can be mysteriously alluring to all -- from the young in age to the young at heart. In particular, space science and astrobiology fill us with wonder, amazement and awe -- but the scientists who work in these intriguing fields may seem intimidating to the non-scientist. At the SETI Institute, we open our doors on an annual basis and invite the public to celebrate science with us at our Mountain View, California, headquarters in what is always an energizing and informative interactive science fa

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Sac City teachers fight 'unilateral' changes to school calendar

Sac City teachers fight 'unilateral' changes to school calendar - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Sac City teachers fight 'unilateral' changes to school calendar

By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 3B

With summer break ending in three weeks for the Sacramento City Unified School District, a squabble over the school calendar has teachers unclear about when they are supposed to return to campus.

Sacramento City Unified students are scheduled to begin classes Sept. 6, but there is a conflict over the start date for staff. A still-tentative calendar calls for teachers to return for faculty workdays on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, which is two days earlier than in previous years.

The revised calendar also converted some shortened school days to full days and made many of



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New York, in Contract With Pearson, Lays Out Rules for State Tests - NYTimes.com

New York, in Contract With Pearson, Lays Out Rules for State Tests - NYTimes.com

In $32 Million Contract, State Lays Out Some Rules for Its Standardized Tests

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Published: August 12, 2011

Standardized tests in English and math taken by students in New York State are about to become slightly less tricky.

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Beginning next spring, a new company, Pearson, will write the standardized tests that the Education Department gives to nearly all third through eighth graders. The department switched to Pearson this year after its contract with another company, CTB/McGraw-Hill, expired.

The department has advised the new company that catch-all answer choices known for


More Complex Picture Emerges in Rutgers Student’s Suicide

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: August 12, 2011

Court papers filed this week offer a more complex picture of the Rutgers freshman who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in September and of his roommate, who used a webcam days earlier to spy on him in an intimate encounter with another man.

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Dharun Ravi stands accused of crimes related to his spying on Mr. Clementi.

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Tyler Clementi killed himself.

The roommate, Dharun Ravi, who stands accused of several crimes related to his spying on Tyler Clementi, emerges from the documents as a young man who wanted to seem blasé about his roommate’s sexuality but was fixated on it. Mr. Clementi comes across as a teenager who was ill at ease with people and worried a

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Judge halts Douglas County school voucher program - The Denver Post

Judge halts Douglas County school voucher program - The Denver Post

Judge halts Douglas County school voucher program

POSTED: 08/13/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT

A judge on Friday put a stop to Douglas County School District's voucher program — at least for now — leaving hundreds of students who had enrolled in private schools scrambling for alternatives as the new school year is about to begin.

In a 68-page decision, Denver District Judge Michael A. Martinez issued a permanent injunction of the Douglas County district's pilot Choice Scholarship Program.

In June, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and other Douglas County residents filed a lawsuit against the district. In it, they said the voucher program violates the state constitution because taxpayer money was going to private and



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District clears teacher accused of CSAP cheating

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POSTED: 08/13/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT

An award-winning math teacher at Webber Middle School in Fort Collins, who was accused earlier this year of helping her students cheat on the CSAP exam, has been cleared after an internal investigation.

The Colorado Education Association, who was helping her fight the allegations, made the announcement Friday.

Julie Pfeifer, who has taught at Webber for 21 years, denied the charges that she purposely delayed the start of the Colorado Student Assessment Program exam in March to review test subjects with students. Pfeifer was put on paid leave in April, and the district quickly invalidated 23 math test scores.

According to the CEA's news release, "the district found no intentional misconduct."

The spring testing at Webber this year involved a new testing schedule that extended the time teachers kept



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