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16-Year-Old Girl Arrested and Charged With a Felony For Science Project Mistake

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Charter school campaign receives sizeable donations

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Linda Shaw - Oct. 09 (News) - The campaign to bring charter schools to Washington state received big donations from Microsoft, New York state residents and hedge funds.

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California's Averroes school offers an Islamic and American education

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Public Radio International - By PRI's The World - Jun. 01 (News Report) - "One of the things we stand for in this school is you are a Muslim, you are a American, and you need to be proud of both, and you need to be able to bring those two together"

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Runner carries injured foe half mile to help in middle of rac

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

yahoo.com - By Jonathan Wall - Sep. 22 (News Report) - Josh Ripley didn't have to stop. Running in a recent cross country meet for Andover (Minn.) High, the junior varsity runner was making his way through the trail at the Applejack Invite when he heard a loud scream during the first mile of a two-mile race.

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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FBI probes white powder in letters sent to DC schools

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - May. 06 (News) - The FBI on Friday is investigating more than three dozen suspicious letters containing a white powdery substance sent to schools in the capital area, leading authorities to race across the city to check for possible threats.

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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Trip Gabriel - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with single-paragraph excerpts from the author’s works. But the curriculum did not require him, as it had generations of English students, to wade through a tattered copy of “Call of the Wild” or “To Build a Fire.”

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Why Fire Teachers?

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - I think there are some jobs that are too important to let any consideration intrude other than the best way to get the job done. Nuclear power plants, firefighters, poison control--I don't want to let other social goals, no matter how laudable, hamper their mission. Teaching is one of those jobs.

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White House memo notes shortage of applicants for contest to have Obama to speak at high school graduation

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Peter Maer - Mar. 08 (News Report) - The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama. An internal White House memo indicates that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.

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Cancer bracelets' 'boobies' tough call for schools

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Bob Moen - Oct. 15 (News) - A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

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NC teen: Nose ring more than fashion, it's faith

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Tom Breen - Sep. 16 (News) - A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.

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Do School Lunches Plump Up Poor Kids? | Miller-McCune Online

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - A program to ensure all American children get at least one good meal a day may lie behind their expanding waistlines. Oddly, a breakfast program does not.

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Schoolgirls and teachers sick from poison gas in Afghanistan

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 25 (News) - Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.

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Evangelicals' Stealth Mission to Sneak Jesus into Our Public Schools

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Rob Boston - Aug. 13 (Investigative Report) - United Methodist minister David Jenkins was meeting with fellow clergy last year in the small Kansas community of Sharon Springs when one of the pastors made what sounded like a routine request. The clergyman noted that the Todd Becker Foundation was coming to town, and the evangelical Christian organization, which purports to warn youngsters about the dangers of drunk driving, wanted to line up local religious leaders to help with its presentation. What struck Jenkins as odd was the venue: It was to take place at Wallace County High School. Furthermore, the Becker Foundation had a very specific set of duties in mind for the ministers. They would swing into action after students had been offered a chance to become “born again.” “Our task was to go forward when students came down to make their decision, and we would give them a Bible and some Christian material and talk with them about Christ,” Jenkins said.

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Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic of American Education-Related Social Stratification

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Matthew Yglesias - By Matthew Yglesias - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Peter Beinart, like all good heterodox liberals, thinks we should curb race-based affirmative action in college admissions in favor of something more focused on class. I’m open to this idea, though I’d like to see a specific proposal rather than a vague suggestion. But every time I hear this debate I have to wonder why we’re having it

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A drift back into segregation

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Stephanie McCrummen - Apr. 20 (News Report) - School system practices across nation contribute to a present-day version that is no less insidious.

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The Evolution Of Technology In Schools

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Daniel Brusilovsky - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Schools try to keep up with the current technology trends, especially in Silicon Valley, the home of technology innovation. You would think that schools in Silicon Valley would be the most up to date on technology—with the latest computers, projectors, drawing boards—but coming from a first hand perspective, as a student at a local school, it’s the complete opposite. I go to a high school where there are no technology classes that even teach students the basics of web development, or video production, or anything of that matter.

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Which High School Students Are Most Likely to Graduate From College? - Yahoo! News

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Kim Clark Kim Clark - Sep. 10 (Review) - Parents: Stop fretting so much about which high school your youngsters attend or how they score on the SATs. If you want your student to make it to a bachelor's degree, it's far more important for him or her to earn at least B's in high school and reach for the best possible college. Oh, and saving a few thousand bucks by sending your kid to a community college could turn out to be an expensive mistake.

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Do You Know a High-Achieving Student Kept From College Over Money?

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, as Delbanco says, we are ignoring many accomplished but poverty-stricken young scholars. Help me test that theory. My e-mail address is at the bottom. Send me the name and contacts of any gifted and motivated students you know who have been unable to go to college because of money. If their stories check out, I will confess my ignorance, tell why this happened to them and help them get where they want to go.

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The underworked American

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - American schoolchildren are unlikely to end up working as hard as the French, let alone the South Koreans, any time soon. There are institutional reasons for this. The federal government has only a limited influence over the school system. Powerful interest groups, most notably the teachers’ unions, but also the summer-camp industry, have a vested interest in the status quo. But reformers are also up against powerful cultural forces.

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Obama Offers Compromise on D.C. Tuition Vouchers

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bill Turque, Shailagh Murray - May. 07 (News Report) - President Obama will propose setting aside enough money for all 1,716 students in the District's voucher program to continue receiving grants for private school tuition until they graduate from high school, but he would allow no new students to join the program, administration officials said yesterday.

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Obama seeks to keep vouchers, for now

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Greg Toppo - May. 07 (News Report) - President Obama will ask Congress to temporarily extend the school voucher program in the District of Columbia until students now attending private high schools with taxpayer dollars graduate, an administration official said Wednesday.

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College-School Partnerships Offer Head Start on Higher Education

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Maria Glod - May. 06 (Special Report) - Mayra Avila is looking forward to her high school prom. She's also a college student taking government and English composition courses.

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An education bubble? Data from the explosion of AP tests

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Culture11 - By Razib - May. 05 (Special Report) - One datum that suggests an irrational bubble in education is that a much larger fraction of the population is going to college now, and that not surprisingly the average IQ of college students has declined by about 2/3 s.d. -- admissions boards began to scrape deeper down into the sludgebucket of society.

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Firing teachers can be a costly and tortuous task

Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jason Song - May. 03 (Investigative Report) - A Times investigation finds the process so arduous that many principals don't even try, except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare.

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