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03/10/2010 06:22 PM |
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Germantown teacher apologizes to student after 'prostitute' remark |
A Montgomery County teacher who told a high school sophomore last week that she was dressed like a prostitute has apologized to the student and her mother, the mother said Tuesday.
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03/10/2010 01:47 AM |
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Teacher backs SUV into Mich. preschool classroom |
FRANKLIN, Mich. -- A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slightly injuring several preschool students, authorities said.
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03/10/2010 10:39 AM |
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Texts for proposed common core standards |
Here are illustrative texts identified in the common core standards proposal from the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers. Those involved with the proposal stress it is neither a comprehensive nor a required reading list. Some of the proposed readings are awa...
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03/10/2010 10:30 AM |
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Excerpts from National Governors and states proposal on education standards |
Excerpts from the proposal by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers:
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03/10/2010 10:30 AM |
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Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards |
The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.
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03/10/2010 10:30 AM |
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03/10/2010 10:30 AM |
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Security gaps exploited in grade scandal remain, may be difficult to close |
Montgomery County school officials have not yet closed gaps in their computer system that allowed students at a high-performing Potomac high school to change dozens of grades using a device that can be bought from Amazon.com for $69. And other school systems, including Fairfax County, remain just...
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03/10/2010 10:30 AM |
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Killing of D.C. teen linked to suspect's anger over trick |
The 15-year-old teen was having fun, hanging out with some friends last month in Northwest Washington. Then, police said, some other teens "faked" on them, or pretended to have a gun.
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03/09/2010 05:34 AM |
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Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools |
SELMA, Ala. -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything ranging from college prep classes to science and engineering programs.
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03/09/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C. law firm Arent Fox names Mark M. Katz new chairman |
The Washington law firm Arent Fox said Monday that it has named longtime partner Mark M. Katz as its new chairman, a leadership change that comes as the legal sector copes with an economic downturn that has curtailed business and prompted layoffs.
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03/09/2010 10:30 AM |
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Students irate at Cuccinelli over gay-rights policies |
Campus activists across Virginia put spring break on hold Monday to mobilize against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who has riled student groups with a letter advising public universities to retreat from their policies against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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03/09/2010 10:30 AM |
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Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls |
On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.
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03/09/2010 10:30 AM |
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Officials can't prove who changed Md. high-schoolers' grades |
A grade-changing scheme at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac involved the gradebooks of 35 teachers and was primarily isolated to the junior class, school officials told several hundred parents at a public meeting Monday night.
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03/08/2010 10:30 AM |
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Duncan will pressure schools to enforce civil rights laws |
Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors.
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03/08/2010 10:30 AM |
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Valerie Strauss: The Answer Sheet |
The Obama administration's Race to the Top education brand has formally, officially, irrevocably, been launched. On Thursday, we learned who the first 16 finalists are in the $4.35 billion fund competition.
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03/08/2010 05:18 AM |
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Duncan won't cancel Montgomery school visit |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with students as planned at Montgomery's Robert E. Lee High School, despite a state legislator's call to cancel the appearance.
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03/08/2010 02:24 AM |
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Kansas City wants to close half its public schools |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.
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03/08/2010 10:30 AM |
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Jay Mathews: Nonfiction books for schools' consideration |
Buried in the avalanche of e-mails and comments I received after my column that begged for more nonfiction books in school, I found a note from one of my favorite educators, Dan McMahon, principal of DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville. In an English class he teaches, McMahon had assigned...
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03/08/2010 10:30 AM |
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03/08/2010 10:30 AM |
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Success adds up for D.C. schools' math program |
It was fractions week in Camille Jackson's third-grade math class at Noyes Education Campus. To kick off a mid-morning lesson last month, she asked her 18 students to look not at the board or at materials on their desks, but under their chairs.
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03/06/2010 10:30 AM |
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Friend of cancer patient leads urgent search for donor cells |
One January day, as she was leaving the District consulting firm where she works, Emily Roesing got an alarming call from her old roommate Lindsay Rawot.
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03/06/2010 10:30 AM |
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Ex-official charged in theft from Thomas Jefferson High |
A former finance official with one of the Washington area's most prestigious high schools was arrested Friday and charged with stealing $279,000 from student athletics and clubs and using the money to support a gambling habit and pay her mortgage, prosecutors said.
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03/06/2010 10:30 AM |
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Southeastern U. acquired by another school in D.C. |
The Graduate School, a private District institution that specializes in training government workers, announced Friday that it had completed a merger with nearby Southeastern University, which closed last year over accreditation problems.
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03/07/2010 10:30 AM |
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Latinos anxious over end of school liaisons in Pr. George's |
As word spreads of the recent decision by the Prince George's Board of Education to eliminate 120 full-time parent liaisons next year to save money, parents and staff at schools with large Latino populations are increasingly worried about how they will cope.
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03/05/2010 10:30 AM |
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Economic recovery seen in retail sales, manufacturing |
The U.S. economy showed continued signs of recovery early this year, according to data released Thursday, with retail sales rising sharply and manufacturing posting its fifth straight monthly gain.
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03/05/2010 10:30 AM |
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Ex-executive of Catholic Charities criticizes health-plan change |
The former chief operating officer of Catholic Charities has called on the organization to reverse its recent decision to change health benefits for employees' spouses, a move designed to avoid legitimizing same-sex marriage.
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03/05/2010 04:07 AM |
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House ethics committee confirms probe of allegations against Massa |
The House ethics committee confirmed Thursday evening that it is investigating Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York who announced his retirement from Congress a day earlier.
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03/05/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C. schools in, Va. out in contest for federal aid |
The Obama administration gave a major lift Thursday to the reform agenda of Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and D.C. charter school leaders, announcing that the District had joined 15 states as finalists in an unprecedented $4 billion contest for federal aid.
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03/05/2010 02:16 AM |
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Students protest cuts to higher-education funds |
Student activists in California and elsewhere took to the streets Thursday in a national day of protest against rising fees and dwindling services in public higher education, drawing attention to a wave of tuition hikes, budget cuts and furloughs at colleges and universities across the country.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C. EMS faces review in death of girl, 2 |
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services has opened a review into the death last month of a 2-year-old District girl who was having breathing problems and was not immediately taken to a hospital.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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Rhode Island school nears compromise on mass teacher firings |
A Rhode Island school superintendent and union leaders, who have been at odds over a decision to fire every teacher at a struggling high school, signaled Wednesday that a compromise that would preserve jobs and overhaul the school may be possible.
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03/04/2010 06:02 AM |
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RI school leader calls for talks, not mass firing |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A district superintendent who fired all the teachers from one of the state's most troubled schools said Wednesday she's willing to negotiate with its teachers' union after it publicly pledged to support reforms.
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03/04/2010 04:34 AM |
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House approves bill to limit physical restraint of students |
The House approved a bill Wednesday to limit the physical restraint and seclusion of students in schools, a response to an investigation last year that found numerous reports of students abused or killed through such disciplinary measures.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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Criminal investigation opened in grade-changing scandal at Churchill High |
The Montgomery County state's attorney has opened a criminal investigation into a grade-changing scheme at Winston Churchill High School, officials said Wednesday, elevating the digital subterfuge into a major scandal at one of the region's most prestigious public schools.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C.'s Rhee told that replacing Hardy principal may backfire |
There are signs that the lingering dispute over Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's decision to replace Hardy Middle School Principal Patrick Pope may be driving away the very families she sought to attract with the change: those in the "feeder" elementary schools in Northwest Washington.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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Bowie honors Spanish teacher for classroom innovation |
Pedro Gonzalez didn't grow up dreaming to be a teacher.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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Environmental foundation rewards students' green innovations |
Environmentalist Lisa Junta was concerned about the waste generated by the disposable lunch trays used at her Fairfax County high school.
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03/03/2010 10:30 AM |
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Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers |
A national survey of more than 40,000 public school teachers suggests that while higher salaries are far more likely than performance pay to help keep top talent in the classroom, supportive leadership trumps financial incentives.
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03/03/2010 10:30 AM |
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Md. seeks better coordination of 'middle-skill' jobs training |
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley called Tuesday for more training efforts to prepare the workforce to meet an expected surge in jobs requiring certification beyond a high school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree.
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03/04/2010 10:30 AM |
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Who's afraid of the big bad charter schools? Not St. Mary's. |
Zina McGowan-Thomas, the energetic public information officer for St. Mary's County public schools, sends me many announcements and news releases that I am tempted to delete, as I do most e-mails from school districts. I know this is a bad idea, because sometimes you will find, in the smallest bu...
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03/02/2010 10:30 AM |
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Same-sex marriage leads Catholic Charities to adjust benefits |
Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers -- the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to legalize same-sex marriage and the ...
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03/02/2010 10:30 AM |
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Obama angers union officials with remarks in support of R.I. teacher firings |
President Obama voiced support Monday for the mass firings of educators at a failing Rhode Island school, drawing an immediate rebuke from teachers union officials whose members have chafed at some of his education policies.
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03/02/2010 10:30 AM |
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Gov. McDonnell seeks stimulus money, despite earlier criticism |
RICHMOND -- For more than a year, Robert F. McDonnell has been critical of the federal stimulus package, arguing that it should have been more focused on creating jobs and spurring the economy.
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03/02/2010 03:38 AM |
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Obama seeks money, interventions to stem dropouts |
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Monday addressed the nation's school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and school districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools.
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03/01/2010 11:46 PM |
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Obama announces get-tough strategy for struggling schools |
President Obama outlined Monday a get-tough strategy for turning around persistently struggling schools, offering an unprecedented increase in federal funding for local school systems that shake up their lowest-achieving campuses.
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03/01/2010 11:46 PM |
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03/01/2010 10:30 AM |
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Desire to learn Russian heating up again |
Russian used to be hot, the must-learn language of ambitious Americans looking to talk to their rivals. But the end of the Cold War put the language in a deep freeze -- one from which it's just beginning to emerge.
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03/01/2010 10:30 AM |
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Decision to fire all of R.I. school's teachers sad, desperate |
Finally, a school system has decided to fire all the educators at an ailing school.
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03/01/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C. teacher evaluation system has its fans in classrooms |
George Parker, president of the Washington Teachers Union, told me last year that the District's new evaluation program had no "appropriate system of support to improve instruction" and was "bad for kids." He suggested I contact more teachers to learn the many flaws of IMPACT, the program's name.
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02/28/2010 10:30 AM |
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At 94, exercising mind and heart with her own bat mitzvah |
When Esther Isralow was a 13-year-old helping her widowed mother start a chicken farm in rural Pennsylvania during the Great Depression, the last thing on her mind was a bat mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony for girls.
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02/28/2010 10:30 AM |
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Deep budget cuts approved for Prince George's schools |
The Prince George's Board of Education on Saturday eliminated hundreds of jobs, approved lengthy furloughs, slashed bus service and expanded class sizes for all but the youngest students under a budget for the 2010-11 school year.
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02/27/2010 10:30 AM |
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Md. Senate passes bill that would waive $23 million Montgomery education fine |
A bill that would waive a $23 million penalty levied against Montgomery County public schools passed with overwhelming support in the Maryland Senate on Friday.
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02/27/2010 11:44 AM |
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Infatuated man kills Wash. teacher outside school |
TACOMA, Wash. -- A man apparently infatuated with a special education teacher he knew from college shot and killed her as she walked into her elementary school Friday, shortly before students began arriving.
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02/26/2010 10:30 AM |
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Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college |
Inessa Volkonidina had taken precalculus once and dropped it. She needed to take it again, and quickly, to fulfill a graduation requirement at Long Island University. She went online and found a company with an odd name, StraighterLine, that offered the course on even odder terms: $99 a month.
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02/26/2010 10:30 AM |
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Gays laud Maryland decision to recognize same-sex marriages from other places |
Same-sex couples and gay rights advocates in Maryland rejoiced Thursday, a day after Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) said the state will recognize same-sex marriages from other places and ordered state agencies to immediately begin giving gay married couples the same rights as...
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02/26/2010 10:30 AM |
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Business principles won't work for school reform, former supporter Ravitch says |
For those who believe that performance pay and charter schools pose a threat to public education and that a cult of testing and accountability has hijacked school reform, an unlikely national spokeswoman has emerged.
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02/26/2010 02:32 AM |
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Duncan questioned on move to cut funding for Teach for America |
Education Secretary Arne Duncan faced unusually sharp questioning from House Democrats Thursday over the Obama administration's proposals to eliminate a grant for the Teach for America program and hold the line on new funding for many other education programs.
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02/26/2010 10:30 AM |
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Virginia acts to limit use of exam for special-ed students after criticism |
Virginia officials are moving to sharply limit an alternative testing program that many schools in the Washington suburbs use to measure the abilities of special education students who traditionally have fared poorly on the state's Standards of Learning exams.
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02/26/2010 06:46 AM |
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Pledge of Allegiance apology will come from Montgomery teacher |
A Montgomery County teacher has agreed to apologize to a 13-year-old student whom he reprimanded and sent to the office for twice refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, said a lawyer who represents the student.
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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Despite recession, young people optimistic about future, Pew study finds |
More than one-third of the millennial generation -- the tech-savvy group ages 18 to 29 -- is unemployed or out of the workforce, the highest share among this age group in more than three decades, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center .
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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Maryland schools get a break on making up snow days |
Spring break is in significantly less peril for public schools in Maryland after the State Board of Education decided Tuesday to allow schools to request waivers for the minimum number of days they must be in session this year.
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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Proposed Arlington schools budget cuts back in many areas |
Arlington County Schools Superintendent Patrick K. Murphy proposed a $442 million budget Tuesday that would increase the average class size in most grades, introduce participation fees for athletics and cut 95 positions.
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02/25/2010 10:30 AM |
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Parents of high school freshmen denied AP need to study the facts |
My wife and I sometimes got emotionally involved with high school issues when our children attended. High school counts. Parents can get upset. So I paid close attention when two Arlington County mothers contacted me, separately, about a flap over Advanced Placement World History in ninth grade.
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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Pledge of Allegiance dispute results in Md. teacher having to apologize |
The mother of a 13-year-old Montgomery County middle school student is demanding an apology from a teacher who had school police escort the youngster from a classroom for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
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02/24/2010 10:30 AM |
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Parent notification policies for underage drinking evolve |
For years, Virginia Tech had a complicated system for deciding when to let parents know about their underage children's alcohol-related transgressions. Visits to the hospital or police station warranted immediate notification, but Mom and Dad didn't have to know about less-serious offenses, such ...
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02/23/2010 10:30 AM |
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More Catholic schools reaching out to special-needs students |
A math class for students with intellectual disabilities at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax practiced naming dates on a calendar one recent morning and deciphering what time it is when the big hand is on the 10 and the little hand is on the 11. But first, the teacher led them in a prayer.
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02/23/2010 10:30 AM |
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Joseph Urgo, N.Y. college official, new St. Mary's president |
St. Mary's College of Maryland trustees announced Monday that they have selected Joseph R. Urgo, a vice president at Hamilton College in Upstate New York, as the school's next president.
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02/23/2010 10:30 AM |
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Rhee reports to D.C. Council on teacher misconduct |
Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has fired 10 D.C. teachers for administering corporal punishment and two for sexual misconduct since July 2007, according to a report she submitted to D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray.
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02/22/2010 10:51 PM |
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Obama proposes to raise academic standards by linking them to state benchmarks |
President Obama announced Monday he will seek to raise academic standards across the country by requiring states to certify that their benchmarks for reading and mathematics put students on track for college or a career.
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02/22/2010 10:30 AM |
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Obama wants education benchmarks to meet higher standard |
President Obama will seek to raise academic standards across the country by requiring states to certify that their benchmarks for reading and mathematics put students on track for college or a career, administration officials said Sunday.
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02/22/2010 10:30 AM |
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Classes, homework slid straight to Internet as snow fell |
With the record snowfall this winter, classrooms across the Washington area have spent weeks on hiatus. But when classes have been canceled, some teachers have moved their lessons to the Internet and pressed on -- and they've been pleasantly surprised by the results.
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02/22/2010 10:30 AM |
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Give students a reality check: Assign more nonfiction books. |
It wasn't until I was in my 50s that I realized how restricted my high school reading lists had been and how little they had changed for my three children. They were enthusiastic readers, as my wife and I were. But all, or almost all, of the required books for both generations were fiction.
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02/21/2010 10:30 AM |
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Mission trumps money for some bookstores and gift shops |
Signs on the front door of the World Bank's unabashedly wonky bookstore, the InfoShop, practically plead for customers to step inside: "Discounts for bank and fund staff & retirees on just about everything!"
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02/21/2010 10:30 AM |
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Muslims turning to home schooling in increasing numbers |
On a chilly afternoon in western Loudoun County, a group of children used tweezers to extract rodent bones from a regurgitated owl pellet. A boy built a Lego launcher. A girl practiced her penmanship. On the wall, placards read, "I fast in Ramadan," "I pay zakat" and "I will go on hajj."
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02/20/2010 10:30 AM |
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D.C. teacher accused of impregnating 18-year-old special-needs student, Rhee says |
The D.C. public school teacher accused of sexual misconduct before he was laid off in October allegedly had sex with an 18-year-old special-needs student, resulting in her pregnancy, Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray in a letter.
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02/20/2010 10:30 AM |
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02/20/2010 10:30 AM |
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Teen sentenced to life for Va. murders of mother and son |
A teenager who killed a mother and her son in their Dale City home during a botched burglary -- a chilling crime that the teen called a "mishap" Friday -- will spend the rest of his life in prison.
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02/20/2010 10:30 AM |
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O'Malley proposes changes in tenure, test rules for chance at federal funds |
The lure of $4 billion in federal funding at a time of fiscal peril has driven state after state toward school reforms long considered politically unlikely, undoable or unthinkable. This week, Maryland provided the latest surprise: Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is seeking union support for reelection...
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02/19/2010 10:30 AM |
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In D.C., more evidence that commercial real estate headed for foreclosure crisis |
A mortgage crisis like the one that has devastated homeowners is enveloping the nation's office and retail buildings, and few places are likely to be hit as hard as Washington.
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02/19/2010 10:30 AM |
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While Md. grocery customers fill carts, preacher fills souls |
Somewhere between the produce aisles and Giant's every-day-fresh bakery, the Rev. Anita Naves is working up a sweat. She is holding a somewhat surprised shopper's hand, anointing his forehead with oil and crying out for the Holy Spirit to enter the man's life and drive out all worry and doubt.
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02/19/2010 10:30 AM |
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Budget woes put Fairfax library services on the line |
Librarian Nancy Klein says she didn't realize how ironic her situation was until she found herself standing at a podium at the Fairfax County Government Center last month to accept an award for helping fellow public-sector employees navigate the new world of layoffs and budget cuts. As Klein...
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02/18/2010 08:04 PM |
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House announces bipartisan effort to rewrite No Child law |
Senior House Republicans and Democrats announced Thursday that they will team up to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, a rare show of bipartisanship in the polarized Congress.
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02/18/2010 10:30 AM |
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Lawmakers to launch bipartisan effort to rewrite No Child Left Behind |
Senior House Republicans and Democrats plan to announce Thursday that they will team up to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, a rare show of bipartisanship in the polarized Congress.
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02/18/2010 10:30 AM |
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GWU e-mail welcomes rejected early-decision applicants |
About 200 students who had sought early-decision admission to George Washington University received an e-mail last week that proclaimed "Congratulations" and welcomed them to the Class of 2014 -- for several hours.
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02/18/2010 10:30 AM |
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School buses get stuck in snow with Pr. George's students aboard |
Two groups of students were temporarily stranded on the way to school Wednesday when their buses got stuck in snow in Prince George's County.
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02/18/2010 10:30 AM |
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Montgomery schools budget passes with modest spending hike |
The Montgomery County Board of Education unanimously approved a budget Wednesday that would modestly increase education spending next school year, but members said that it was just the first step in what is likely to be a tough fight this spring over limited county funds.
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