Teach Kids Relationship Skills, Victim's Mother Pleads
Source: Education News
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 08:12:08 -0700 | education-news
Skills, Victim's Mother Pleads The mother of Lauren Dunne Astley hopes to turn a personal tragedy into a movement to make sure that no one else will have to go through what she, and the rest of her family went...
Ohio school shooting victims' families sue charity
Source: Education Week
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 03:20:42 -0700 | education-news
Ohio school shooting filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a charity that maintains a trust fund set up first to benefit the victims' families and also to support the well-being of students and others in the affected community. The lawsuit against...
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sotomayor at Yale
Source: Education News
Innsbruck :: Austria | updated 2013-05-21 23:17:56 -0700 | education-news
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the author of a unanimous decision delivered at the Supreme Court on Monday, but Sotomayor was hundreds of miles from Washington when the court convened. While her eight colleagues donned their black robes and took the...
After Decades, Boots Are Back on Campus
Source: NY Times
Cambridge :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 20:51:07 -0700 | education-news
May 21, 2013 The Great Hall of City College, a carved stone and stained glass chamber so collegiate Gothic it could be mistaken for one in Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, England, is crowned by a mural that enshrines scholarship as...
AP or Dual Credit: Which Approach is Best for High Schoolers?
Source: Education News
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 15:14:18 -0700 | education-news
For high school students facing up to the financial toll a college education can take on a family, amassing as many college credits as possible prior to enrolling makes a lot of sense. As a result, high schoolers in Missouri...
The Metric System and Common Core
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 14:35:04 -0700 | education-news
Largely forgotten in the cornucopia of May celebrations, however, is National Metric Week.
Professor Snarks: Should Coursera Offer a Course on Itself?
Source: Education News
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 13:15:06 -0700 | education-news
A massive online open course about one of the biggest providers of massive online open courses? According Bob Meister, who teaches social science and political thought at University of California Santa Cruz, that is just what students need. Meister made...
K-12 Impacts Likely in N.J., Va., Governor Races
Source: Education Week
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 12:06:51 -0700 | education-news
And in Virginia, where the incumbent is term-limited, the governor's contest could determine the future of major K-12 policy changes enacted this year.
Study Backs Dual-Language Pre-Ks for ELLs
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 12:06:49 -0700 | education-news
Young English-language learners still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most from early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That's the conclusion of a new federally funded analysis of the large, and growing, population...
Creating Learning Spaces for a New Age of Discovery
Source: Education Week
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 12:06:48 -0700 | education-news
Watson was 25 when he and Francis Crick discovered the architecture of DNA, arguably the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetime. Steve Jobs, another early bloomer, believed that you couldn't trust people over 30 to come up with radical innovations....
Teenagers Are Wired for Peer Approval, Says Study
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 12:06:48 -0700 | education-news
Adolescents really do want to jump off a bridge just because their friends are doing it. But new research suggests changes in how teenagers view risks and rewards around their peers are not only a critical part of their development,...
How to Make School Funding Fair
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:53:32 -0700 | education-news
Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission issued a clear and powerful charge: Efforts to improve our school system "must start with equity"particularly the equity of resources. To achieve this goal, the commission, of which I was a member, instructed...
Baton Rouge Struggles to Keep Control of Schools
Source: Education Week
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 12:06:46 -0700 | education-news
A bill that would allow the creation of a new school district that includes the southeastern part of the city of Baton Rougehome to many of the 43,000-student district's white and more affluent studentspassed the state Senate and the state...
Commission Proposes Reciprocity for Distance Learning Programs
Source: Education News
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 11:26:15 -0700 | education-news
The commission, which is comprised of accreditors from around the country, proposed that states [...] Regulating distance learning programs around the US has presented a challenge for states and the federal government, but a new report published by the Commission...
Board to take look at ND tuition rate plans
Source: Education News
Fargo :: ND :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 08:13:37 -0700 | education-news
The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education said Monday he's not sure if the group gave a fair hearing to plans on tuition increases and wants to revisit the idea. The board approved a plan May 10...
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