Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
The State Board of Education tentatively approved rules Wednesday to help parents of students at low-performing schools to fire principals and teachers or transform the schools into charters.The regulations would fill in the gaps of the controversial "parent trigger" law signed last year by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after barely ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
A new study offers insights into the kinds of math skills children should learn early on to be best prepared for success in the subject as they advance into higher grades. Key concepts for beginning 1st graders to learn include understanding numbers, the quantities those numbers represent, and low-level ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Single-sex housing is alive and well at this university but the school might get sued as a result. The Catholic University of America recently announced its intent to move to single-sex only housing beginning next year. College President John Garvey thinks the move will curb binge drinking and ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Gov. Bill Haslam is thanking teachers and administrators for improving the state's standardized test scores. Preliminary results from the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program released on Thursday showed math scores in grades 3-8 improved by 7 percent this year over last year and reading scores improved by 3.7 ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg defended a last-minute budget bill protecting teachers from further layoffs and reducing district authority, saying that Democrats preserved class sizes and education jobs.The proposal was backed by the California Teachers Association, which has significant budget influence. About two-fifths of the state's general fund ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Even if you’re still not certain what you want to be “when you grow up,” odds are that you have already started to form some pretty strong feelings about what will and won’t make for a good first full-time job after college. I’ll skip most of the “you need to ...
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