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Teachers Uneasy Over Extra Class

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.theledger.com (Views: 132, Clicks: 1)
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LAKELAND | As if high school and middle school teachers didn't have enough on their plate. Next school year, they face teaching an extra class period per day, a move by the Polk County School District expected to save $16 million by eliminating 276 positions.

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Education policy 'leaving children intellectually impoverished'

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.telegraph.co.uk (Views: 129, Clicks: 0)
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Education policy in England is leading to the "cultural and intellectual impoverishment" of a generation of school children, a leading headmistress has warned.

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States turn down abstinence education grants

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.usatoday.com (Views: 133, Clicks: 0)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity.

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New Missouri law aims to help college students save on textbooks

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.kansascity.com (Views: 106, Clicks: 0)
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Craig Stevenson and some of his schoolmates at the University of Missouri almost never go in the campus bookstore anymore. Textbooks there are too expensive, they say, so they buy and sell their books online at Amazon.com.

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Teachers' schools flunk math prep

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.usatoday.com (Views: 149, Clicks: 0)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school. Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

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Commuter colleges go residential, gain enrollment

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.usatoday.com (Views: 89, Clicks: 0)
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ATLANTA — The neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day.

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Early-Education Research Viewed as a Policy Tool

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 75, Clicks: 2)
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In a sign of continued commitment to early education despite state budget woes, more than 100 public officials and business leaders from 14 states have gathered here this week to learn how to apply the most up-to-date knowledge on child development to the challenges facing pre-K programs.

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Learning the Language: What's Next? English-Only Commencement Speeches?

Starla sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 105, Clicks: 0)
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School officials in Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana are considering barring students from speaking a foreign language during commencement speeches, according to an Associated Press article published today in The New York Times.

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SAT will let students pick which scores to show colleges

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 110, Clicks: 1)
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Youths who take the exam multiple times can choose just the best results. Some people see a reduction in stress, but others say the move will mostly help the affluent because of the test's cost.

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Teacher instills a love of words, but the lesson is about life

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 73, Clicks: 0)
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Phil Holmes has taught English for decades, first to the privileged but lately to the disadvantaged. His method and his intensity make a solid connection with both extremes.

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Moment of truth for 8th-graders — TAKS time

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.chron.com (Views: 98, Clicks: 12)
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Thousands of eighth-graders across Texas will sit this week for the biggest test of their young lives. For the first time in the state, eighth-graders must pass standardized exams in math and language arts to be promoted to high school automatically. The students had two chances during the school year, but that was not enough for many who failed the exams on both attempts.

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6 states to design own plans for fixing schools

Starla sumitted ago via http://news.yahoo.com (Views: 73, Clicks: 1)
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It's a softening from how No Child Left Behind currently works — with schools having to take certain steps at specific times for missing math and reading testing goals. Critics have complained that the approach is too rigid and treats schools the same regardless of whether they miss the mark by a little or a lot.

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Student loans: borrowings soar by a third

Starla sumitted ago via http://education.guardian.co.uk (Views: 74, Clicks: 0)
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Students are borrowing record amounts to pay for their studies, new government figures published today reveal. The total amount loaned to university students rose by 32.2ast year to nearly £4bn.

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First state school drops GCSE for new 'O-level' exam

Starla sumitted ago via http://www.independent.co.uk (Views: 73, Clicks: 0)
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One of the country's leading grammar schools has become the first state school in the country to ditch the GCSE in favour of an exam modelled on the traditional O-level.

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Physics teacher shortage warning

Starla sumitted ago via http://news.bbc.co.uk (Views: 77, Clicks: 3)
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Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests.

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