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Calls mount for Indonesian education and culture minister to resign
The Jakarta PostJAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN) -- A coalition of educators and antigraft activists have called on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to sack his Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh for the latter's incompetence in organising this year's...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Finance, Colleges and Universities, Jakarta (Indonesia), Germany
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Ind. resumes ISTEP testing after 2 days of delays
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana students have resumed taking required standardized tests following two days of computer glitches that temporarily halted testing. The Indiana Department of Education said in a statement that administration of the ISTEP+... -
READER SUBMITTED: Awards Program To Recognize High-School Student Environmental Leadership
Middletown/ShorelineApplications for The Rockfall Foundation's annual awards program highlighting youth achievement are now available online at the foundation's website. The Virginia R. Rollefson Youth Environmental Leadership Awards, named for former foundation Executive...Tags: Natural Resources, Earth Day, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies
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Voice of the People, May. 02
Postpone school closures The proposal to close 54 Chicago Public Schools is dangerous and ill-conceived. It will damage the schools it closes and the schools that receive students from the closed schools. In defending the closings, CPS made many...Tags: Highway Transportation, Teachers, Sugar Grove, Students, Illinois General Assembly
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Opting out
Thank you for the article regarding "opting out" of standardized testing. In addition to the recent letters to the editor regarding the Core Curriculum controversy, this is a pertinent topic for parents and taxpayers in the state of Pennsylvania and...Tags: Teachers, Standardized Testing, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama
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Education coalition wants to stay course in L.A. Unified
A coalition of groups, including the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, has launched an effort to put education at the center of the mayoral race and civic attention. But they aren't calling for sweeping changes in the L.A. Unified School District....
Tags: Teachers, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Gates' warning on test scores
A recent op-ed article in the Washington Post warned against overusing students' standardized test scores in evaluating how well teachers are doing their jobs. There would be no surprise about that — if it had been penned by the leader of a teachers...
Tags: Teachers, Students, The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning, Examinations
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Open thread: The Weeks in Review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of...... -
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Colleges and Universities, Education, Melissa Harris, Discrimination
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iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...
Tags: Stanford University, Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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EDITORIAL: Winchester goes from bad rap to shining example
The Keene Sentinel, N.H.Four years ago, Keene school district officials asked: Whose job is it to ensure Keene High School students do well in school and on standardized tests -- the high school staff, or staff of schools who send children to Keene? They raised the question...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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West Paris math whiz calculating his future
Sun Journal, Lewiston, MaineIt's about what you know, not necessarily how you learned it, said Allen Gerry, a nationally honored mathematician and longtime coach of the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School math team. "The world is changing," he said, with young people getting...Tags: Schools, Science, Colleges and Universities, Education, Science and Technology
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