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Higher education faces challenge of quality, says President Mukherjee
IBNLive
Kurukshetra: Institutes of higher learning continue to be challenged by quality, President Pranab Mukherjee said in Kurukshetra on Tuesday. Speaking at the 10th annual convocation of the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, the president said ...
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IBNLive
Review of proposed budget starts with education
Philly.com
It's not easy to tell whether this is the most generous education budget in history or one of the most egregious, given the rhetoric coming from both sides in the debate. Actually, there is a bit of truth in each. The governor is in full reelection ...
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Report Calls for Broad Changes in Science Education
New York Times
Worried that public schools are failing to prepare students for a complex and changing world, educators unveiled new guidelines Tuesday that call for sweeping changes in the way science is taught in the United States, emphasizing hands-on learning and ...
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Lapid avoids Knesset, denies education cuts
Jerusalem Post
Those you promised to represent," she said in a speech addressed to Lapid and Education Minister Shai Piron, who were not in the plenum. "You're hurting students who serve in the army, who do reserve duty, who pay taxes. Imagine if a finance minister ...
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Education task force meets in Nampa Wednesday
Idaho Press-Tribune
Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:00 am. Education task force meets in Nampa Wednesday 0 comments. BOISE — Though the Legislature may have adjourned for 2013, the conversation on education reform in Idaho is just heating up. After the repeal of ...
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Ask Yo-Yo Ma about Arts Education
YouTube
Yo-Yo Ma took a break from his Arts Advocacy Day visits with Congress to participate in Americans for the Arts' first Google+ Hangout about arts education with a great line-up of artists/arts education advocates that included: Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses ...
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Education minister dismisses go-slow
Independent Online
Demanding the resignation of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and her director-general, Bobby Soobrayan, Sadtu said its members would, starting on Tuesday, come to work only to teach and would not perform any "extra" duties such as marking or ...
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Independent Online
Update proposed for sex education in SC schools
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http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/s... Two Republican legislators say South Carolina's 25-year-old law on sex education must be updated to decrease teen pregnancy and the generational poverty it brings. WACH FOX News reporter Ivory Hecker has the ...
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Legislators meets to debate Minn. education plan
San Francisco Chronicle
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Members of a joint House-Senate committee trying to reach a compromise plan on new education spending agreed Tuesday that they shared some common ground, though how long it will take to make a deal is unclear.
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Boost for early education in Minn. House budget
San Francisco Chronicle
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's youngest students would get more attention in the education budget released by House Democrats on Tuesday, with more money for all-day kindergarten and early education scholarships. Their bill would extend funding ...
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Decision on E Cape education prompts outcry
YouTube
Eastern Cape Civil Society and School Governing Body forums have expressed shock at a decision to return the administration of education to provincial authorities. Basic education minister Angie Motshekga has announced the province was no longer under ...
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Margaret Thatcher, Education Reformer
National Review Online (blog)
Foreign policy isn't all that Margaret Thatcher and her team had in common with Ronald Reagan and his. The 1980s also saw much crossing of the Atlantic — in both directions — by their education advisers, too. Bill Bennett, for example, hosted U.K. ...
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National Union of Students elects president who doesn't believe in university
Telegraph.co.uk
Speaking after winning the election with 424 of 732 votes, Miss Pearce said: "I'm really proud to have been given the opportunity to build the student movement around a vision for public education, and to be leading NUS as we build towards the next ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Northern Ontario First Nations sign education agreement with province, Ottawa
Globe and Mail
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, Ontario Education Minister Liz Sandals and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo travelled to the Mattagami First Nation, south of Timmins, Ont., to meet area chiefs and sign the agreement.
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Globe and Mail
Hitting the Right Note in Education Reform
Huffington Post
For far too long, U.S. policymakers have sought to find a magic bullet to cure the myriad of problems facing the American education system. There is no easy, single answer to how to fix the education system, but instead we need to utilize a number of ...
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EDUCATION: Inland graduation rates continue to climb
Press-Enterprise
"Our first and foremost goal in public education from preschool through 12th grade must be to have every student complete high school," Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Kenneth M. Young said in a news release. "A diploma is the basic ...
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Odisha govt makes a mockery of Right to Education
Times of India
BHUBANESWAR: The state has done poorly as far as implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act is concerned, say educationists. Even after the completion of the three-year deadline set by the Supreme Court for implementation of RTE on April 1, ...
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Ala. House panel OKs $5.7 billion education budget
San Francisco Chronicle
The Alabama Education Association currently provides liability insurance for its members. Some Democrats claimed that members of the Republican majority are trying to put the teacher's union out of business. But the chairman of the committee ...
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Show-cause notice to school for flouting Right to Education
Times of India
As per the provisions of the RTE, unaided private schools have to reserve 25% of their seats at entry level to provide free education to students from economically backward sections of the society whose annual family income is less than Rs 1 lakh.
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Alabaster education group looking at five finalists for school board vacancy
al.com (blog)
ALABASTER, Alabama -- The City of Alabaster's education committee on Tuesday evening selected five finalists out of 15 candidates who applied to fill the vacancy on the Alabaster Board of Education. Alabaster schools logo.jpg. Alabaster City Council ...
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Education Chairman Urges Panel to Back "Noble Cause"
MyHighPlains
Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Patrick, as House Education Committee chairman, have made a top priority for the session. Dubbed "The Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program," it would allow businesses to receive up to a 15 percent state tax ...
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Special education funding overhaul goes to Corbett's desk
Patriot-News
School districts that have been struggling with paying their special education bills may see some relief on the horizon. capdome.jpg View full size A bill designed to result in an overhaul of the more than two-decade-old special education funding ...
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Ron Paul's new education curriculum promises 'self-discipline' and 'success'
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Paul has been a vocal opponent of big government and during several of his past presidential bids, he's strongly advocated for the demolition of the Department of Education. "If you care about your child, you'll get the federal government out of the ...
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Senate panel votes 3-2 to keep education tax credit
The Union Leader
The program had been praised as a way to ensure all children would receive the best education possible and decried as a back-door voucher plan that would take money away from public schools as private and religious schools cherry-pick the best and ...
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Villaraigosa to scold Greuel and Garcetti on education
Los Angeles Times
"Precious little has been said about how the next mayor will keep L.A. moving forward on the education front," Sanders said in an email. "He will ask them for a comprehensive vision on education, not just a few sound bites worthy of an attack ad or a ...
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Blogs10 new results for Education
 
On a school tour, education officials see Common Core success ...
By Anika Anand
Chancellor Dennis Walcott looked on in a sixth-grade math class at Brooklyn's Academy of Arts and Letters where the teacher listed all of the different ways.
GothamSchools » Newsroom
Sam Goldman vs. the NAS on Defending Liberal Education...
By Peter Lawler
Our friend Sam is mostly right in dissing right-wing political correctness. Liberal education needs to be separated from any political agenda. And what's wrong with Bowdoin is that it really doesn't pride itself in teaching anything in particular at ...
Postmodern Conservative
Things to Watch for in Obama's Education Budget - Politics K-12 ...
By Alyson Klein
Michele McNeil covered education and state government in Indiana for a decade before joining Education Week as a state policy reporter in June 2006. Alyson Klein, who reports on federal education policy, joined the staff in February 2006 ...
Politics K-12 - Education Week Blog
Reader Request Week 2013 #4: College Education (And Costs ...
By John Scalzi
You went to a great university. Assuming you support the concept of higher education for your own child, Athena is old enough that you may have started thinking about where she might want to go, or at least, wondering if you have been ...
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Clark to Host International Symposium on Holocaust, Genocide ...
By Contributor
WORCESTER, Mass.—Holocaust programs have become commonplace in many middle and high school curricula across the U.S. A trend toward deploying the Holocaust to.
Armenian Weekly
Peabody Colloquium: "The End of Exceptionalism in American ...
By Vanderbilt News and Communications
In his new book, The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey Henig traces the roots of the shift in school governance. Once the domain of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to ...
Vanderbilt News
School safety bill moves forward; arts education requirement - The ...
By Lindsay Wagner
This morning the House Education Committee took up HB 452, the 2013 School Safety Act. Rep. Holloway, co-sponsor of the bipartisan bill, hailed it as the most comprehensive school safety legislation in the country since the Newtown ...
The Progressive Pulse
Colorado Peak Politics - #KIDSFIRST: Douglas County Education...
By ColoradoPeakPolitics
First they lost the 2009 school board elections, then they watched as a school voucher system was set up and held up by the Colorado Court of Appeals, and recently their union boss salaries, funded by taxpayers, got pulled out from under ...
Colorado Peak Politics
Joint Meeting On Iowa Education Compromise - KWQC-TV6 News ...
By Dan Howell
Members of a joint House-Senate committee are meeting to try to reach a compromise plan on new education spending At a Tuesday meeting, lawmakers agreed there was common ground in the House and Sena.
KWQC - KWQC-TV6 Home
Group urges voters to call on Harrisburg to fix education funding ...
By thenotebook
Education stakeholders across Pennsylvania are being asked to speak up to influence negotiations for the state's budget. Education Voters of Pennsylvania, an advocacy group focused on public education policy, has issued a call to action, ...
Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Web10 new results for Education
 
New Guidelines Call for Broad Changes in Science Education
New standards for curriculum, which at least 26 states have pledged to consider, take a firm stand on climate change and evolution and emphasize hands-on ...
www.nytimes.com/.../panel-calls-for-broad-changes-in-science...
Educational Leadership | SmartBrief
Indiana's plans to allow non-education majors to become teachers by passing a subject-area exam has been delayed for about a year because the state board ...
www.smartbrief.com/industry/educational-leadership
New US science education plan includes evolution and climate ...
Public elementary and high school classes across the US should be teaching students about evolution, climate change, renewable energy and the Big Bang, ...
www.theverge.com/.../new-science-education-plan-NGSS-has-...
WATCH: What is transformational education? – Glenn Beck
What worried Glenn even more was the idea of "transformational education", where people's perspective is changed through psychological, convictional, and ...
www.glennbeck.com/.../watch-what-is-transformational-educat...
Guest: Turn STEM into STEAM with arts education - The Seattle Times
We need to add an "A" for art to the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education agenda and turn it to STEAM, writes guest columnist ...
seattletimes.com/html/.../2020721289_johnmaedaopedxml.ht...
Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Education Programs ...
The Fellows program recognizes teachers who best demonstrate excellence in geographic education, and provides an opportunity for them to experience ...
press.nationalgeographic.com/.../grosvenor-teacher-fellows/
Op-Ed: If Education Is a Basic Human Right, Why Are Girls Left So ...
Kristen Hendricks, the founder of Kwagala Project, shares why she has dedicated her life to ...
www.takepart.com/.../kwagala-project-education-human-right-...
Women with elite education opting out of full-time careers: Women ...
Though past studies have found little evidence that women are opting out of the workforce in general, first-of-its-kind research by a professor of law and ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408133023.htm
The 22 Milestones Of Education Technology | Edudemic
Just look how far we've come over the past few hundred years. From a tablet- sized chalkboard in every school house to a, um, tablet in every classroom. Wait ...
edudemic.com/.../the-22-milestones-of-education-technology/
List of open education resources online | opensource.com
Explore how the principles behind open source--collaboration, transparency, and rapid prototyping--are proven catalysts for innovation.
opensource.com/education/13/4/guide-open-source-education


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