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Obama must stick to his guns on education |
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:00 EDT
It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"
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Alabama schools turn to bank loans to operate |
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:10:00 EDT
Alabama schools have been having a rough time of it, and it only looks like it's going to get rougher. The Cotton State recently came in last place in the federal Department of Education's Race to the Top grant competition. And a steadfast global recession combined with the Gulf Coast oil spill this summer have put a severe strain on the state's tax receipts, the primary source of revenue for Alabama's education system, forcing several school systems to take out private loans just to make it through the year.
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Report: Classroom shortage hurts East Jerusalem children |
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:21:00 EDT
Palestinian children in East Jerusalem are being put at a disadvantage because of a dire shortage of classrooms in the east side of the city, according to a report published Tuesday by two Israeli human rights groups.
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What's missing for back-to-school? 135,000 teachers |
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:21:00 EDT
More children are crowding into classrooms in Modesto, Calif. Parents are paying extra to send their kids to full-day kindergarten in Queen Creek, Ariz. And the school buses stopped rolling in one St. Louis area school district.
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Get a job, or go to grad school? |
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:26:00 EDT
Dear Annie: I hope you can settle an argument. My parents are saying that with my college major (English), it will probably be hard for me to find a job when I graduate next spring. They want me to go straight to grad school and get a master's degree, which they say will make me more "marketable." (They are willing to foot the bill, which I do appreciate.)
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D.C. school system fires 241 teachers |
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:38:00 EDT
The District of Columbia public school system announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor performance under the education assessment system IMPACT.
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Arrests highlight education busing issues |
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:30:00 EDT
The arrest of 19 protesters at a rancorous school board meeting Tuesday brings the issue of busing and diversity in education into the national spotlight.
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Are hospitals deadlier in July? |
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:44:00 EDT
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals in July. Now, a growing body of research suggests that month might be a more deadly time in U.S. hospitals.
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