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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
21 May 2012 | 10:00 am
Here’s the latest disaster in Florida’s standardized test-based school accountability system, which has been touted as a model for education reform around the country since it was developed by former Gov. Jeb Bush.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 9:05 am
Student Opinion | Tell us about road trips you've taken or fantasized about.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 8:43 am
A boy who, for pocket money, sells eggs hatched in the yard of his rural South Carolina home gained admission to a free, selective boarding school in the state.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 8:42 am
6 Q's About the News | What races has the horse I'll Have Another recently won?
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 8:34 am
Today's question deals with the average age of the players on two N.B.A. teams.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 8:09 am
On May 21, 1927, aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
21 May 2012 | 8:00 am
This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch
. She is a research professor at New York University and author of numerous books, including the best-selling “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” a critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement. This piece appeared on her blog.
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Latest education news on Boston.com
21 May 2012 | 7:36 am
It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 7:12 am
The International Masters Program in Practical Management takes its students on a worldly itinerary, turning the standard MBA approach on its head.
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Latest education news on Boston.com
21 May 2012 | 7:08 am
The Maine Sports Hall of Fame has eight new members. They were inducted Sunday during a ceremony at the Bangor Civic Center. They were chosen for their athletic accolades as well as their love of the game.
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NYT > Education
21 May 2012 | 5:00 am
As many public universities are facing budget cuts, executive pay has become a volatile issue in some states.
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Latest education news on Boston.com
21 May 2012 | 4:00 am
4 students killed are memorialized in BU ceremonies After one of the most trying academic years in its history, Boston University graduated more than 6,700 students Sunday, in a ceremony that paused in silence to remember four students killed this spring, but mostly looked ahead with optimism and full-throated cheers for the commencement remarks of Google executive Eric E. Schmidt. The commencement at sun-baked Nickerson Field also carried grief and the raw memories of four violent deaths this semester.
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Whoa Momma! Feed
21 May 2012 | 2:02 am
I really liked our colleague Sean Daly's take on the closing of Walt Disney World's Snow White ride on May 31, which you can read here. Like so many folks who grew up in Florida, that's the ride that scared the poop out of me as a kid.
But I hadn't thought about it the way Daly puts it as a rite of passage:
For 41 years, the Snow White ride has been a Sunshine State rite of passage. Both of my daughters unleashed big fat tears on the ride. They exited red-eyed, stunned, hitting me with the same what-just-happened[…]
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
20 May 2012 | 11:56 pm
Interested in helping your child with math homework? You might need a math-English dictionary.
There’s not a lot of “borrowing” in subtraction these days. Instead there’s “regrouping” or “decomposing.” “Reduced” fractions are now “simplified” or simply “equivalent” fractions. And let’s call a “diamond” what it really is, please: a “rhombus.”
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
20 May 2012 | 9:41 pm
I always say “please” and “thank you.” I tip at least 20 percent. I never abuse editors or waiters. Many people have told me that I am a nice guy.
So why do so many private schools these days treat me like a loathsome intruder? They don’t actually say they wish I would drop dead, but it is clear that they don’t want to hear from me. I am asking them for information — how many graduates and Advanced Placement tests they had last year — that they consider none of my business. Thousands of public schools have provided the[…]
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Latest education news on Boston.com
20 May 2012 | 5:49 pm
A handful of protesters briefly interrupted a speech calling for world unity delivered by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Colby College's graduation ceremony Sunday.
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
20 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
1. How does The High School Challenge work?
We take the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and divide by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June. I call this formula the Challenge Index. With a few exceptions, public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000, meaning they had as many tests in 2011 as they had graduates, were put on the national list at washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge. We rank the schools in order of ratio, with the highest (19.522) achieved by the[…]
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
20 May 2012 | 11:00 am
This was written by Vicki Abeles, a parent of three and the director of the documentary, “Race to Nowhere” and Jo Boaler a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University. “Race to Nowhere” challenges common assumptions about how children are best educated.
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
20 May 2012 | 9:00 am
The little schools that dominate the top of The Washington Post’s 2012 high school rankings confirm an accelerating trend in American education: We are moving away from the something-for-everyone shopping mall campuses that were once a national model.
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NYT > Education
20 May 2012 | 6:48 am
We have just observed the anniversary of the groundbreaking court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, and yet desegregation is effectively dead.
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Latest education news on Boston.com
20 May 2012 | 4:02 am
A blind Chinese legal activist who escaped house arrest, endured a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle and a hurried daylong flight paused ever so briefly upon his arrival in New York City before taking up a familiar fight.
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Latest education news on Boston.com
20 May 2012 | 4:00 am
McCarthy accepts post as Scituate school chief Freetown-Lakeville school chief moving on Freetown-Lakeville School Superintendent John McCarthy has accepted the top job in Scituate’s school system, a move that will leave his former district searching for its fourth superintendent in less than 10 years. McCarthy said Scituate’s financial support of its schools factored into his decision to leave Freetown-Lakeville. The coastal town approved a $2.2 million tax increase last year to keep the money flowing. In Freetown-Lakeville, money has been consistently tight, making it difficult for administrators to keep the district competitive.
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NYT > Education
20 May 2012 | 3:49 am
As automakers increase their efforts to design vehicles that are more fuel-efficient, college engineering programs are likewise adapting their curriculums, preparing students to build vehicles increasingly powered by batteries.
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NYT > Education
20 May 2012 | 3:40 am
Dennis M. Walcott, the schools chancellor, devotes his Sundays to exercising, making waffles, singing in his church choir and cleaning the house with the radio or TV on.
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Education: DC Area Education News, Education Policy, School Information - The Washington Post
19 May 2012 | 6:50 pm
This guest post was written by Chris Lyford, a news aide at The Post.
Theon O’Connor, a senior at Georgetown University, sprang from the sedan that was idling in a neighborhood near campus and bounded toward students’ homes.
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