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Home-schooled kids left out of Subway contest
Sun ReporterChildren darted across the grass carrying small balloons and then plopped to the ground trying to pop them. The relay runners came back and slapped the hands of the next children, as the games progressed for the springtime ritual known as Field Day....Tags: People, Miley Cyrus, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Oprah Winfrey, Children
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Summer lessons include canoeing, hiking
The Roanoke TimesA dozen Roanoke County students wearing bathing suits and red life vests hiked through pine needles on their way to Spring Hollow Reservoir at Camp Roanoke in the western part of the county. They picked out canoes and slid them into the water. "This...Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Health and Safety at School, Physical Fitness
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Sweating out school grades in Florida
SENTINEL STAFF WRITERFaced with relocating her family from Oklahoma to Central Florida, Michelle Mangialardi had some choices to make. She liked St.Cloud's small-town appeal, but the mother of two wanted a neighborhood with a top-notch elementary school. "The first thing...Tags: University of South Florida, Volusia County, Jeb Bush, Winter Park, Pine Hills
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Asian freshmen to outnumber whites at Va. school
The region's most prestigious public magnet school will have more Asian American students in this fall's freshman class than white students. It's the first time Asian American freshmen will outnumber their white classmates at the Thomas Jefferson High...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, Washington Post Company, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Offshore med schools paying hospitals for rotations
karla.schuster@newsday.comCome September, Nassau University Medical Center will open its doors to 64 students from a Caribbean medical school for clinical training, a routine event except for one thing: Money. Lots of it. Over the next decade, NUMC will be paid $19 million to...Tags: Medical Staff, Hofstra University, Defense, Health and Safety at School, Stony Brook University
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Sweating out school grades in Florida
Sentinel Staff WriterFaced with relocating her family from Oklahoma to Central Florida, Michelle Mangialardi had some choices to make. She liked St. Cloud's small-town appeal, but the mother of two wanted a neighborhood with a top-notch elementary school. "The first thing I...Tags: Academic Progress, Volusia County, Jeb Bush, Pine Hills, Film Festivals
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School system mourns loss of Glenelg worker
The county school system community recently mourned the loss of Melvin Hackett, who had worked as day supervisor for Glenelg High School for 44 years. He died June 17 at age 64. It is believed that Hackett, who had lived in Mount Airy, spent his...Tags: Mount Airy, Minority Groups, Boeing Co., Technology
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Dorothy Y. Wright
Dorothy Young Wright, a retired guidance counselor and teacher in the Baltimore City public school system, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 75. Born Dorothy Boone in Raleigh, N.C., Ms. Wright moved to...Tags: Morgan State University, Awards and Prizes, Anglican, Coppin State University, Classical Music
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Teacher pay set by the results
Sun reporterFrom rural Washington County to suburban Prince George's County, school systems around the state are beginning to wade into a promising but controversial topic in education: pay for performance. School officials are starting to offer teachers and...Tags: Prince George's County, Academic Progress, Examinations, Paul G Pinsky, Employees
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Air conditioning is hot topic
Sun reporterThe classrooms at Hebbville Elementary School on Baltimore County's west side got so hot this year that 8-year-old Cameron Harris' mother sometimes took him out of school early on especially muggy afternoons. "When I hear him complaining about not...Tags: Middle Schools, Local Authority, Rivers, National Government, Lobbying
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