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Stamford Schools Mix It Up

New York Times | WINNIE HU | Posted 07.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Stamford School System, Schools, Stamford Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut Schools, New York, Stamford Schools, Connecticut, New York News

STAMFORD, Conn. -- The school system is experimenting with mixed-ability classes that have so far reported fewer behavior problems and better grades f...

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Obama Gives Bush a 3rd Term in Education

Diane Ravitch | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Obama, Education, Schools, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Bush, Education Policy, Politics News
Diane Ravitch

Let me say it again: It is time to kill the Bush-era No Child Left Behind program. If judged solely by test scores, the only coin that the NCLB crowd understands, the law has been a dud.

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World Day Against Child Labor Highlights The Need To Do More For Africa's Children (SLIDESHOW)

International Rescue Committee | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Education, Africa, Exploitation, Children, Work, Child Labor, Labor, Child Exploitation, Uganda, Schools, Slideshow, World News
International Rescue Committee

African nations are witnessing a different kind of labor crisis -- the use of young children and teenagers as cheap workers in exploitative jobs and industries.

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School's Out, Kids Can Feel Smart Again

Jenifer Fox | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Schools, Students, Charter Schools, Children, Strengths-Based, Summer Vacation, Living News
Jenifer Fox

One of the problems with our schools today is that we so often overlook real talent because our schools are set up to only validate one kind of learner.

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Improving Science Teaching in America's Schools

James M. Gentile | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: High School, Science, Careers, Education, Schools, Science Teaching, Barack Obama, Politics News
James M. Gentile

With the emphasis that President Obama has rightly placed on science, it is now incumbent upon Americans to insist that science teaching be upgraded as well.

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Bill Cosby's "Bar Mitzvah" in Cleveland

Joel Brokaw | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: African American History, Cleveland, Bill Cosby, Alan Schwartz, Bar Mitzvah, Inner City Schools, Schools, Living News
Joel Brokaw

I told Mr.Cosby I needed to attend the Bar Mitzvah of my best friend's son. "That's quite fitting that you'll be doing that at the same time as I'm speaking," he told me with a heartfelt intensity. "Because I'm going to Cleveland for the very same purpose."

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Transforming the Teaching Profession

Joel Klein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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Joel Klein

Eliminating the racial and ethnic achievement gap in our nation's public schools is the most urgent civil rights challenge for this generation.

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Boredom in School and its Effects on Your Child's Health

Jenifer Fox | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

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Jenifer Fox

Some have argued children must learn to accept boredom. Learning how to get through it is part of the point, right? Wrong. Overcoming boredom isn't a matter of character development.

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Three Year Olds Don't Even Have Bootstraps to Pull On!

Jennifer Garner | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Save the Children Movement, Schools, Save the Children, Reading, Childhood Education, Early Child Education, Living News
Jennifer Garner

Today, one in six children lives in poverty in America. With a supportive new president and a strong yearning for renewal across America, now is the time to invest in the next generation.

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Advancing Education: A Governor's Lesson

Michael F. Easley | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: High School, Jobs for the Future, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, College Tuition, Education, Schools, North Carolina, Politics News
Michael F. Easley

We can't afford to see college as an option or a luxury for some; it has to be our goal for all.

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My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Supreme Court, Education, Civic Participation, Sandra Day O'Connor, Courts, Civics, Schools, Media, Politics, Politics News
Marianne Schnall

I recently spoke with the inspirational former Supreme Court Justice about her new web site, the judiciary and her legacy as the first woman on the Supreme Court.

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A Toxic Lesson

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Juan Parras, Latinos, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Justice, Javier Sierra, Epa, Hispanic, Air Quality, Pollution, Lungs, Texas, Hispanics and the Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Education, Sierra Club, Cesar Chavez High School, Houston, Latinos and the Environment, Contamination, Toxic Schools, Asthma, Schools, Green News
Javier Sierra

In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.

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Another Dead Boy

Sara Whitman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taunting, Hate Crimes, Schools, LGBT Issues, Jaheem Herrera, Safe-Schools, Bullying, Effects of Bullying, Politics News
Sara Whitman

There is something deeply wrong. We must demand change. We must enable teachers to do the right thing. We must teach our children tolerance.

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Getting to the Roots of Hate Crime

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Hate Crimes, Hate, Annual Day of Silence, Bullying, Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Mathew Shepard Act, State Hate Crime Statutues, Colorado, Harassment, Transgender, Gay, Oppression, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Schools., Angie Zapata, Federal Hate Crime Law, Privilege, Inequality, Hate Crime, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

If we are serious about protecting people from violence and crime simply because of their group identities, we must also take seriously their right to equality in the home, workplace, and school.

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Do Lap Dances and Humiliation Treat ADHD -- and Should Public Schools Pay?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Education, Child Abuse, Teens, Drugs, Mount Bachelor Academy, Schools, Troubled Teens, Idea, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

The stories of psychological abuse coming out of Mount Bachelor Academy are every bit as bad as I have heard from teens and parents at chains of programs that have far worse reputations.

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Fewer Ph.D Students Being Accepted Into Programs

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

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If ever there was a year that colleges were anxious about enrolling new and continuing students, this is it. Whether dependent on tuition revenue or s...

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Armageddon Friday

Bill Allen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Ayatollah, Textbooks, Intelligent Design, Education, Creationism, Science, Texas Board of Education, Religious Right, Texas, Schools, Science Education, Darwin, Evolution, Taxes, Intelligent-Design, Texas Schools Creationism, Intelligent Design in Textbooks, Religion in Schools, Intelligent Design in Schools, Politics News
Bill Allen

The religious right in Texas -- in a move that any ayatollah in Iran would be proud to claim -- is dangerously close to substituting religious dogma for science.

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Who Needs the Brothers Grimm When We Have Teen Screen?

Anne Dunev | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, School Shooting, Political Psychology, Mental Health, Children, Fairy-Tale, Psychiatric Drugs, Raising Children, Teen Suicide, Fairy Tale, Schools, Europe, Children's Health, New York, Psychopharmacology, Teenagers, Living News
Anne Dunev

The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.

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Teacher Rx: The Perfect Storm For Reform

Rev. Al Sharpton and Joel Klein | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Al Sharpton, Education, Economic Stimulus Package, No Child Left Behind, Tenure, Race to the Top, Merit Pay, Joel Klein, Obama Administration, Bill Gates, Schools, Teachers, Students, Politics News
Rev. Al Sharpton and Joel Klein

Transforming the teaching profession into a merit-based system is an obvious first step toward reducing educational inequality.

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How A Charter School Turns Union

Alexander Russo | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Teachers, Schools, Unions, Charters, Brooklyn, Teacher Organization, KIPP Brooklyn, Union Organizers, Teachers Unions, Kipp, Teacher Unions, Organization, Politics News
Alexander Russo

It seemed at first like the unionization effort at the KIPP school in Brooklyn might happen without too much conflict. By early February, however, reports started coming out about stalled negotiations and alleged intimidation by KIPP administrators.

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Parents Sue Over Prep School's Shutdown

New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 04.07.2009 | Business

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When the students of the Conserve School in Wisconsin poured into the auditorium on a blustery morning early this year, they had no inkling of what wo...

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Teachers' Hunger Vs. Energy Savings In California Classrooms

Los Angeles Times | Raja Abdulrahim | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Education, Reducing Energy Use, Schools, Teachers, Saving Money, Green News

Beside her desk in the rear corner sit a refrigerator and microwave that give her easy access to Lean Cuisines, water and the four colas she often dri...

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Welcoming Schools Guide Teaches Tolerance

Ellen Kahn | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teasing, Glbt, Welcoming Schools, Schools, Human Rights Campaign, Hrc, Welcoming Schools Guide, Gay Issues, Human Rights Campaign News, Politics News
Ellen Kahn

As educational systems adopt programs like Welcoming Schools, it will impact a generation of kids who'll know it's OK that a 10-year-old boy wants to wear pink, or a classmate has two dads.

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Teacher as an Observer

Robert Rose | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Sensitivity, Teacher Observing, Childrens' Needs, Education, Public Schools, Children, Kids, Teachers, Schools, Teaching, Learning, Living News
Robert Rose

Many teachers are terrified of deviating from their lesson plans because they are unable to defend what their intuition and experience tells them to do.

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Healthier, Wealthier and Wiser: The Case for Creating Green Schools Now

Matt Petersen | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

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Matt Petersen

As the Congress deliberates the largest stimulus package in history, there is no single better investment that we can make than to help maximize the potential learning and productivity of our children.

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