The school district has teamed up with universities, defense contractors and a video game developer for help with a high-tech program designed to breathe life into textbook lessons and challenge students with the kind of problem-solving that employers might expect.
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PHOENIX - State lawmakers will have to restore at least $150 million in cuts they just made to higher education to keep Arizona from losing more than $800 million in federal education stimulus funds.
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Eight Prince George’s County schools, most of them inside the Capital Beltway or in the southern part of the county, will close next year under a revised plan the Board of Education approved last night, saving the school system nearly $6 million in a tight budget year.
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By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Few details have emerged, but an income tax increase for the wealthy appears certain and wine in grocery stores seems doomed.
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By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Named for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the measure would create new cadres of volunteers focused on education, clean energy, health care and volunteers.
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By MICHAEL BRICK
A debate over new curriculum requirements relating to evolution in Texas stands to influence standards nationwide. But social conservatives on the board, using a series of amendments tailored to particular school subjects, succeeded in requiring teachers to evaluate critically a variety of scientific principles like cell formation and the Big Bang.
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New system will look beyond traditional academic areas in an approach similar to New York. Parents will get the opportunity to assess local schools in England in a series of areas beyond information in traditional academic league tables under the system, to be unveiled in a white paper in May, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said
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Children are more likely to grow into well-adjusted adults if their parents are firm disciplinarians, academics claimed yesterday.
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Regulator Ofqual has made exam boards take immediate action after finding science GCSE standards had fallen. Maths and English literature standards had been maintained but science was “clearly a cause for concern”, it said.
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By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to send South Carolina’s public schools as much as $700 million in federal stimulus cash, despite the objections of Mark Sanford, its Republican governor.
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