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Australia: Rift on year 12 figures

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Only 64 per cent of Victorian students are completing a year 12 certificate or equivalent according to federal figures - far fewer than claimed by the state Education Department.

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Online pilot program will help guide students through Algebra I

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An online pilot program to help eighth- through 10th-graders who are struggling with Algebra I is being launched at 16 high schools and 23 middle schools throughout the state.

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Australia: Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards

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One of Melbourne's bastions of male privilege - Scotch College - has educated more of Australia's most honoured and influential citizens than any other school in the nation. An analysis of the 435 people who have received the nation's top Order of Australia honours since they were first awarded in 1975, shows they disproportionately attended a handful of elite Victorian secondary schools.

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Australia: Lost in translation

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Chris Berg -- As school returns for 2012, there are now more students learning Latin than Chinese. Once we take out Chinese-born students and those who speak Mandarin at home, there are just 300 students learning Mandarin in year 12 in Australia, according to accounting body CPA Australia. That is not how it was supposed to be.

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More Ways to Teach With Film: The 2011 Awards Season

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The writers of this blog post offer ideas for incorporating lessons about film into the curriculum as three major film-industry events get under way. They suggest having students compare one of this year's nominees for the Best Picture Oscar with the books on which they are based, or having them write a review or persuasive essay about the film they liked best.

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After Hardship and Homelessness, National Science Fair Honors

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Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior in Long Island, was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her work with mussels.

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Best High Schools for Math and Science

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U.S. News & World Report looked at the nearly 600 schools that qualified for the Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mention lists of the U.S. News Best High Schools and then evaluated their students' participation rates and performances on AP® exams in math and science. The following are the 208 high schools that performed the best in those subjects.

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A Long Island Teenager Studies Species Survival and Saves Herself in the Process

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Lawrence Downes -- Samantha Garvey’s study of mussel shells brought her national acclaim and helped her beat homelessness, too.

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City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says

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A project tracked the academic performance of more than 21,000 New York City students who applied for ninth grade admission at 105 small high schools, mainly in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, from 2005 to 2008.

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Students get the chance to Gear Up

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Gregg Garn and Scott Wilson say that the implications go far beyond helping the students directly served through this grant. If successful, the model can be used to launch similar efforts in other impoverished areas across the state.

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Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks

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Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

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Students' math scores jumped 20% with iPad textbooks, publisher says

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A yearlong pilot program with digital textbooks on Apple's iPad found that students' algebra scores increased by 20 percent when compared to a curriculum with traditional books.

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Oklahoma graduation requirements questioned by educators

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Public school educators throughout the state are increasingly concerned about the number of high school seniors that will not graduate this May because of new state testing requirement that took effect this year.

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Grade changes at New Haven’s Hillhouse High School resulted from computer ‘glitch’, were made by another administrator, lawyer for principal alleges

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The attorney for James Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina says a software glitch caused incorrect grades to appear on student transcripts, and now he is turning the tables on the assistant principal who accused the popular school leader of grade tampering.

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College Readiness: How to Help Students Think Abstractly

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Ben Johnson -- A college-ready student can think figuratively, or in other words associate abstract ideas with concrete examples. One of the best ways to help students think abstractly is to engage them in the ancient wisdom of metaphors and sayings. Initially, their reactions will be like the ones above, but with a little practice, students will be able to arrive at the real meaning of the sayings.

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Australia: Rift on year 12 figures

Online pilot program will help guide students through Algebra I

Australia: Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards

Australia: Lost in translation

More Ways to Teach With Film: The 2011 Awards Season

After Hardship and Homelessness, National Science Fair Honors

Best High Schools for Math and Science

A Long Island Teenager Studies Species Survival and Saves Herself in the Process

City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says

Students get the chance to Gear Up

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks

Students' math scores jumped 20% with iPad textbooks, publisher says

Oklahoma graduation requirements questioned by educators

Grade changes at New Haven’s Hillhouse High School resulted from computer ‘glitch’, were made by another administrator, lawyer for principal alleges

College Readiness: How to Help Students Think Abstractly

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