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Virginia Teacher Holds Mock Auction Of Black Students To Teach Civil War Lesson

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:41:17 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield - Apr. 14 (News) - A fourth grade teacher in Norfolk, Virginia is in trouble for getting a bit too real in a lesson on the Civil War, in which she held a mock auction of black students while letting the white students bid on them.

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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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In Central New York's multiage classrooms, children help each other

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Syracuse.com - By Debra J. Groom - Feb. 03 (Special Report) - Kathryn and Jazmine are in different grades, but they are in the same class in the Mexico school district's New Haven Elementary -- a multiage classroom called the Beehive.

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Rural teachers ford the educational gap

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

VietNamNet Bridge - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - Many young teachers dream of spacious schools with modern equipment, but after graduating university, Hoang Thi Huong ventured to remote Rao Tre Village, where she had to swim across a river every morning just to reach her students. Food or education After graduation Huong found herself inspired by the plight of the province’s Ma Lieng ethnic people, who live in poor conditions in a remote area of the province. These children are often unable to take advantage of educational opportunities, since they are needed at home to help their parents work or take care of their younger siblings. "When I saw the city children going to school, I often wondered why Ma Lieng children didn’t have that opportunity," Huong says, "I began to ponder this question and instead of applying for a job in the centre of the province, I decided to become a teacher in Rao Tre Village." The Huong Lien kindergarten was founded by Headmistress Tran Thi Linh. Hoping to bring education to the most remote areas of the province, she gathered a group of teachers who shared this dream and opened the school in 1995.

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Charter schools and the attack on public education

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

isreview.org - By Sarah Knopp - Nov. 28 (Special Report) - In a stock market prospectus uncovered by education author Jonathan Kozol, the Montgomery Securities group explains to Corporate America the lure of privatizing education. Kozol writes: “The education industry,” according to these analysts, “represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control” that have either voluntarily opened or, they note in pointed terms, have “been forced” to open up to private enterprise.

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Florida Passes Anti-Bully Law

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

365Gay.com - May. 01 (News Report) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is expected to sign legislation that would require school districts to prohibit bullying and harassment. The Senate passed the bill unanimously on Wednesday. It already had passed the House. Crist has said he would likely sign the bill. ''I'm against bullying, too,'' he said. The legislation mandates that school districts throughout the state must put in place specific policies to deal with bullying that includes methods of investigating and punishments. It also bans cyber bullying. The districts would have to comply by December 1 or risk losing state funds.

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Students trained to use emotional and social intelligence

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Canada.com - By Douglas Todd - Apr. 02 (News Report) - The evidence is now overwhelming that children who are taught to understand their own feelings and those of others do much better in school, careers and long-term relationships, says the psychologist who made famous the term "emotional intelligence." Daniel Goleman, author of the ground-breaking books Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, will be in Vancouver from Friday to Tuesday to reveal how new scientific studies show students who learn self-awareness and interpersonal skills score higher marks, cut fewer classes, suffer less anxiety, are more well-mannered and know how to say "no" to sex without losing their friends.

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Cooperative Classrooms Lead To Better Friendships, Higher Achievement In Young Adolescents

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Mar. 30 (News Report) - Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others' success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success, according to an analysis of 80 years of research. Competitive environments can disrupt children's ability to form social relationships, which in turn may hurt their academic potential, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Cary J. Roseth, PhD, David W. Johnson, PhD, and Roger T. Johnson, PhD, reviewed the last eight decades of research on how social relationships affect individual behavior and achievement.

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Evolution battle flares in states

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Stateline - By Pauline Vu - Feb. 22 (News Report) - Creationism v. evolution in schools has been for many years a battle in the nation's culture war, and these days it's no different.

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Crayons Down!

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Stephanie Mencimer - Jan. 30 (Special Report) - "We want Head Start to set higher ambitions," Bush told the assembled children. He stressed the need for "accountability," while noting, "I fully understand a four-year-old child is not going to take a standardized test. That would be absurd." But not too absurd for the administration to roll out precisely such a test a few months later.

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Why Is Bush's Kid Brother Neil Getting Federal Funding?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:29:30 -0700

AlterNet - By Liliana Segura - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Despite having no experience in education, Neil Bush is the founder of a Texas-based company called Ignite! Learning, which, since 1999 has peddled strange little devices called "Curriculums on Wheels" (COWs) to schools state and nationwide. Rather than anything bovine, COWs actually resemble bright plastic droids or office chairs gone terribly wrong.

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NOLA's Failed Education Experiment

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:53:42 -0700

American Prospect - By Ralph Adamo - Aug. 29 (Special Report) - one has to ask where on earth the proponents of a "market-driven" approach to public education got the idea that anything the public sector could do, the private sector could do better. Did they get it from the sterling job private hospital corporations and insurance companies have done to assure that all Americans have access to adequate medical care? Did they get it watching the delivery of privately contracted services in Iraq or in post-Katrina New Orleans -- two places where any goods or services might cost a hundred times their actual value (sold by the private sector to government) and still not function correctly?

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My Right: Universal Elementary Education

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:15:07 -0800

www.citizenxpress.com - By Dinesh Singh RAWAT - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - The god has created this wonderful universe. In this universe he/she has sent human to live. In human he/she has inserted an organ named brain. The brain generates ideas, these come from knowledge and finally knowledge can be gather only and

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