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Mass hysteria rare, but usually seen in girls

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)  
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Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.

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Ellen DeGeneres: Public education’s new funding stream

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)  
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Valerie Strauss -- Yet there is something sad and scary when a check from an entertainer is seen, in history’s wealthiest country, as a godsend to a school principal who herself has spent her own money trying to help her students, or to a school where teachers are working for free because of budget cuts, bad management and other factors.

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California lawmakers keep school buses rolling

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)  
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School buses are likely to keep rolling for now, as the Legislature on Thursday restored $248 million for home-to-school transportation that was particularly crucial for small and rural school districts that need to take students across long distances.

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State Dept. pulls visa sponsor's designation

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)  
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A company will no longer be allowed to arrange special federal visas for foreign college students to work in the United States because the State Department -- acting on complaints about poor labor conditions -- has revoked the organization's certification.

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Colo. lawmakers consider trans-fat ban in schools

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 6)  
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The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation's toughest school trans-fat ban.

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Bracing for $40,000 at City Private Schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 29, Clicks: 4)  
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As the median price of first grade in private schools has gone up by 48 percent, parents at Horace Mann, Columbia Grammar and Trinity are braced to find out whether they will join families in the $40,000-a-year club.

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Norman elementary students add flair to donated books

nitajo sumitted ago via http://normantranscript.com (Views: 31, Clicks: 8)  
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Norman Public Schools Executive Director of Elementary Education Celeste Scott and NPS World Languages Director Janet Gorton presented the Norman Sooner Rotary with 1,250 laminated bookmarks at the club’s meeting Monday morning.

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Australia: School staff in rort scandal

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 27, Clicks: 4)  
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Parents and staff in Victorian schools have been caught taking kickbacks, stealing fund-raising money and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars that should have been spent on students.

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Teens migrating to Twitter _ sometimes for privacy

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.canadianbusiness.com (Views: 37, Clicks: 4)  
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Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on. But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents' friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen.

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Who's Packing Your Parachute?

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.youtube.com (Views: 40, Clicks: 5)  
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How's your parachute packing coming along? Who looks to you for strength in times of need? And more importantly, who are the special people in your life who provide you the encouragement you need when the chips are down?

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Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.alec.org (Views: 28, Clicks: 4)  
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ALEC’s 17th edition of the Report Card on American Education contains a comprehensive overview of educational achievement levels (performance and gains for low-income students) for the 50 states and the District of Columbia (see full report for complete methodology).

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The most, least literate big U.S. cities

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 64, Clicks: 25)  
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Valerie Strauss -- Washington, D.C., is the most literate big city in the United States, and Bakersfield, Calif., the least, in the newest annual rankings that consider factors including the population’s education level and the number of bookstores.

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TPS board considers uniform requirement for all

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 34, Clicks: 4)  
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Like it or not, school uniforms could be the way more Tulsa teens achieve the "geek chic" look that is so trendy right now.

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OneVoice pushes education funding

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 4)  
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Education funding leads the legislative priorities listed Thursday by the Tulsa Metro Chamber and its partners in the OneVoice lobbying initiative.

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England: Facebook and Twitter warning to teachers who befriend pupils

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.telegraph.co.uk (Views: 32, Clicks: 4)  
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In 43 of the 336 cases referred to the General Teaching Council for England last year for "unacceptable professional conduct", teachers had used online forums, emails and websites like Facebook and Twitter to contact children.

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