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08/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 1 (IPS/TerraViva) - When it comes to female education rates, progress
has been made around the world, and in many countries girls and
young women have outnumbered and outperfor ...
08/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - BULAWAYO, Mar 1 (IPS) - From the rickety old buses that miraculously make
long cross-border journeys to the frustrating red tape at the
border post, from fending off sexual advances from bus crews ...
08/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - LILONGWE, Feb 13 (IPS) - He fishes by night and sells his catch by day.
He's the breadwinner for his family of six. Maliko Malombe
is nine years old.
07/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - MONTEVIDEO, Feb 12 (IPS) - "Excuse me, I forgot my glasses, could you tell
me what that sign says?" This was one of the ruses commonly
used by Juan Gómez, who was too embarrassed to admit that at ...
06/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Feb 11 (IPS) - There will be no Tet (Lunar New Year) for Doan Hung
this year. As festivities
heat up for the Year of the Tiger,
which starts on Feb. 14, the 12-year-old ...
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08/03/2010 at 01:14:03 - It's time again for that frantically anticipated and often dreaded yearly public school ritual: taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
08/03/2010 at 01:14:03 - When students sit down this week to be tested on their knowledge of math, reading and science, not all will be putting pencil to paper. Some may be dictating their answers to teachers. Others may us ...
08/03/2010 at 00:44:03 - Christopher Muñiz was looking forward to the perks of eighth grade this year: field trips, prom, big-man-on-campus status and the expectation of high school.
05/03/2010 at 23:44:03 - Eleven-year-old Maria Ordoñez helped organize a school bake sale that raised $409 for victims of the Haitian earthquake. Then the Sunset Elementary fifth-grader got a chance to do something ...
05/03/2010 at 19:29:04 - The overarching message from residents to the trio reviewing the practices of the Broward school district still reeling from the arrest of a School Board member: Improve communication at all levels of ...
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05/03/2010 at 15:00:00 -
Rankings determined by accepted students' enrollment decisions.
05/03/2010 at 15:00:00 -
These schools have the greatest number of accepted applicants who choose to attend.
03/03/2010 at 17:45:00 -
The most important bits of information from your instructors may be the things left unsaid.
03/03/2010 at 14:18:00 -
The former president, who graduated from Yale Law School, will address the 2010 graduating class in May.
01/03/2010 at 15:17:00 -
The disgraced ex-governor will take questions from a faculty panel and students tomorrow.
01/03/2010 at 14:34:00 -
Amid legal concerns about using Admiral Ackbar as Ole Miss's mascot, George Lucas's company weighs in.
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Today at 16:20:03 - Agreement reached in longstanding special-education lawsuit in Baltimore
Parties battled for years over providing adequate services to students
Today at 16:20:03 - Panel compiles list of "most beautiful campuses"
Architects choose several college campuses
Today at 16:20:03 - Detroit board says it will sue its financial manager over his compensation
$145,000 of Robert Bobb's salary comes from private foundation funds
08/03/2010 at 15:20:05 - Facility for grades 5 and 6 to be built in Cache, Okla.
District voters approve $30 million bond request
08/03/2010 at 15:20:05 - Bonds will pay for new cafeteria in Vian (Okla.) district
Voters approve $5.78 million proposal
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Today at 12:18:00 - Houston Independent School District (HISD), the largest district in Texas, has reached a settlement with the United States Department of Justice over allegations it filed false claims related to the f ...
08/03/2010 at 20:30:00 - The United States Department of Education has released final priorities and opened the application process for the Investing in Innovation Fund, also known as "i3," a $650 million grant program that's ...
08/03/2010 at 18:48:00 - Putting your schools through practice sessions is ultimately the best test for determining how effective your crisis response plan will be in a real emergency. Here, a high school and the security exp ...
08/03/2010 at 12:44:00 - Pflugerville Independent School District in Texas will be spending about $1.7 million to upgrade video surveillance. According to the recommendation document voted on by the board of trustees, the dis ...
08/03/2010 at 12:40:00 - Lightspeed Systems has launched a pair of appliances, named "Lightspeed Rockets," that integrate hardware preinstalled with either the company's Internet filtering or spam-blocking software for school ...
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Today at 08:20:00 - Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Animate 2
Today at 01:00:00 - Travelwith a group of hardy teachers, the Virginia Trekkers, as they explore this beautiful state. Virtually visit areas of geological and historical significance across the five regions Appalachian P ...
08/03/2010 at 09:15:00 - Cross posted on Always Learning Last week I was extremely fortunate to attend the ASB Unplugged Conference in Mumbai, India at the American School of Bombay, with my lovely colleagues, Chrissy Hellyer ...
08/03/2010 at 08:25:00 - Tabula Digita has entered into partnership agreements with both Dell and Intel.
08/03/2010 at 08:10:00 - Math Solutions® announces
ePD™, a web-based professional development resource that offers quality
instruction for educators
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Today at 08:00:00 - NEW attempts at producing national rankings of Australian universities will be inevitable once the federal government's proposed My University website is up and running by the beginning of 2012.
Today at 08:00:00 - THE 2002 Bali bombings, in which 88 Australians died, have triggered an expanding but low-profile counter-terrorist research program in Australian universities.
Today at 08:00:00 - THE migration hopes of hundreds of thousands of overseas students will be dashed if a draft list of migration-preferred occupations is adopted, immigration agent Karl Konrad warned yesterday.
Today at 08:00:00 - AUSTRALIA will struggle to maintain food, water and energy security and to modernise its manufacturing sector unless it stems the exodus of high school students from science.
Today at 08:00:00 - VICE-CHANCELLORS, fearing threats to their autonomy, have pushed back against what they see as the federal government's initial punitive focus in framing the sector's new regulator.
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08/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - The national academy says Britain cannot afford to cut science funding at a time when other nations are increasing their investment. Zoë Corbyn reports
08/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - Employers' association sets out proposals in pre-election manifesto as Lammy defends higher education for its own sake. Hannah Fearn reports
08/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - Man found guilty of harassing v-c to tell judge that prosecution breached his right to free expression. Melanie Newman reports
07/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - Panel finds no case to answer as student did not own copyright to her dissertation. Melanie Newman writes
05/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - Responsibility for problems arising from currency fluctuations still unresolved. Zoë Corbyn reports
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08/03/2010 at 19:00:00 - Former science ministers David Sainsbury and William Waldegrave have united to warn Britain risks relegation from the 'economic premier league' if investment in scientific research falters.
03/03/2010 at 19:01:00 - The number of schools with over 1,500 pupils has more than doubled under New Labour, it has emerged.
28/02/2010 at 19:00:00 - Nick Clegg has placed inequality firmly at the centre of the Liberal Democrat's education policy and attacked the Tories for not costing their plans for schools.
28/02/2010 at 19:00:00 - Schools would no longer need to consult a local authority before becoming an academy if the Tories win power, Michael Gove will announce today.
23/02/2010 at 07:56:00 - Gordon Brown will roll out the academies programme to primary schools today, in a key part of his general election campaign.
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08/03/2010 at 17:10:13 - TORONTO, March 8 /CNW/ - Students were disappointed that today's Throne Speech made no commitment to address the under funding of Ontario's colleges and universities. While the creation of student ...
08/03/2010 at 16:10:20 - TORONTO, March 8 /CNW/ - Due to record unemployment, Ontario students are deeply concerned about finding the resources necessary to pay for their education, says a report released today. The "Cana ...
04/03/2010 at 19:10:13 - OTTAWA, March 4 /CNW Telbec/ - Today's federal budget fails to address the significant gap in post-secondary participation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. "Education is critical ...
04/03/2010 at 19:10:13 - OTTAWA, March 4 /CNW Telbec/ - The organization representing Canada's university and college educators says today's federal budget is a major disappointment for post-secondary education, leaving C ...
04/03/2010 at 17:10:15 - OTTAWA, March 4 /CNW Telbec/ - Today's federal budget contains no measures to address record high tuition fees and the student debt crisis. "Chronic underfunding of Canada's post-secondary edu ...
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07/03/2010 at 23:20:03 - Since an initial explosion in the 1980s, service learning has become increasingly popular on college campuses around the country (Stoecker & Tryon, 2009, p. 3). Many faculty and university adminis ...
07/03/2010 at 23:20:03 - This inquiry raises questions about the manner in which the No Child Left Behind Act aims to improve mathematics education through continued reliance on standardized testing and mandated use of scient ...
07/03/2010 at 23:20:03 - “Dialogue presupposes that we talk with each other, not at each other” (Brock, 2010, p.129).
In (Mis)Understanding Families, editors Monica Miller Marsh and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck successfu ...
05/03/2010 at 05:20:14 - Recent efforts to combat low school enrollment in the developing world -- such as President Obama's pledge to establish a $2-billion Global Fund for Education and the 2002 creation of the World Bank's ...
05/03/2010 at 05:20:14 - This qualitative study examines whether oppositional attitudes toward learning prevail among African American children attending two low-income urban elementary schools in California. In addition, we ...
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06/03/2010 at 21:10:06 - (NC)-For many students, school breaks are an opportunity to visit friends, socialize, and sleep in. However, for parents, school breaks may cause worry about how children will be spending their days. ...
06/03/2010 at 21:10:06 - (NC)-Oxford Learning offers three easy rules for making resolutions for a better academic year.and for not getting discouraged and abandoning them. First, keep resolutions clear. That means setting g ...
06/03/2010 at 21:10:06 - (NC)-According to a number of recent surveys, many Canadians lack financial literacy. In other words, they have trouble understanding, analyzing and using the information they need to make day-to-day ...
06/03/2010 at 21:10:06 - (NC)-"It's important that the brain is continually challenged during school breaks," said Dr. Nick Whitehead, CEO of Oxford Learning. Whether it is by playing board games or by reading books and thin ...
06/03/2010 at 21:10:06 - (NC)-Active participation in class is one of the simplest and most effective ways to learn and to get better grades. Students who are shy, hesitant, or unwilling to speak out in class are missing out ...
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03/03/2010 at 19:25:29 - Keeping the Message Clear
President Obama's appointment of Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana as assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the Department of Education represents an eno ...
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The American Councils for Education, in association with the U.S. Department of State, is seeking to place five young professionals in non-governmental internships across the country during the fall ...
03/02/2010 at 16:29:52 - Invest in Teachers
Teacher quality is key to the success of our schools and our children. No matter how you judge success, there can be no doubt that students do better in testing, are more motivated ...
29/01/2010 at 20:24:55 - Children under 18 years old make up almost half of Haiti's population of 9 million. As many as 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children have been destroyed or damaged in the Port-au-Prince area ...
27/01/2010 at 20:05:25 - National Council of Teachers of English: Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship
The Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship provides funding for professional development experiences ...
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08/03/2010 at 15:20:02 - Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S.
08/03/2010 at 15:20:02 - The federal government plans to give a deeper look at issues ranging from programs for English-language learners to access to college-preparatory courses.
05/03/2010 at 11:20:16 - Oregon has received permission from the federal Department of Education to give state tests in reading, math, writing, and science to high school juniors rather than sophomores, in hopes of raising s ...
05/03/2010 at 11:20:16 - While there have been some improvements in test scores, schools where most teachers have been replaced still grapple with problems of poverty and discipline.
04/03/2010 at 12:20:04 - The district superintendent who fired all the teachers from one of the state's most troubled schools said she's willing to negotiate with its teachers' union after it publicly pledged to support refor ...
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