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A Temple success, from India, speaks at Fox School commencement
The Philadelphia InquirerPallam Raju has a daunting job. In India, he oversees the education of 230 million children. Raju, 50, also oversees higher education as the minister of human resource development, a position to which he was appointed in October. On Thursday, he...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Students, Heads of State, New York City
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CORRECTION: Correction
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.A story in the May 8, 2013, issue of Education Week about the nation's education policy debates misstated the timing of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's appearance at the NewSchools Venture Fund summit. It occurred May 1, a day after his speech...Tags: Watertown, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Common Core Supporters Firing Back
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and initiating coordinated public relations and advertising...Tags: Business Enterprises, Advertising, Barack Obama, Regional Authority, Executive Branch
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Forest Lake teacher gets surprise call from federal ed official
St. Paul Pioneer PressForest Lake science teacher Bruce Leventhal started his day with a five-page thank-you note from a student; then he headed to a meeting with district officials to discuss a student trip to Costa Rica he's been planning. It didn't seem his day could...Tags: Science, Biology, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
Tags: Barack Obama, Executive Branch, University of Maryland, College Park, Bowie State University, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Confusion about Common Core
The legislature fiddles while educators wait. That's one way to look at the Indiana General Assembly's decision to "pause" implementing Common Core standards until a study and public hearings are completed. These are the standards the Indiana State...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Executive Branch, American Federation of Teachers, Government, Teachers
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Public urged to appreciate, support teachers
The Union Daily Times, S.C.They have helped shape the lives of absolutely everyone, and this week -- May 6 through May 10 -- has been designated 2013 National Teacher Appreciation Week -- a time for us to thank them for their dedication to education. "So many of America's...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Unions, Ernest Hemingway, U.S. Department of Education
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In testing-dominated system, real learning comes outside the classroom
It's Teacher Appreciation Week, the standardized testing season has mostly ended in the public schools this year — and what have we learned? Parents have learned that their first-graders are developing test anxiety. Teachers have learned that they...
Tags: Schools, Roland Park, Mulan (movie), Social Sciences, Teachers
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California moves quickly to carry out national education standards
The Sacramento BeeFor generations, first-grade students learned how to add using math tables and flashcards. Carolyn Goehring employs plastic cubes and circles drawn in purple crayon. Rather than ask students to remember that five plus seven equals 12, the Raymond...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, American Federation of Teachers, U.S. Department of Education, Teachers
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States Faulted on Pre-K Spending Levels
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The Obama administration's preschool-expansion proposal asks states to take the lead in creating high-quality pre-K programs ripe for expansion to children from low-income families. But according to a recent report from an organization that tracks...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Early Learning, Rutgers University, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Teachers
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Cheshire High School senior to meet Obama as 1 of 141 Presidential Scholars in nation
New Haven Register, Conn.Aneri Pattani has wanted to be a journalist since the fourth grade, but the Cheshire High School senior will be the envy of much more experienced reporters when she gets an audience with President Barack Obama next month. Pattani will meet with Obama...Tags: Journalism, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Education, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Obama visit another boost for touted school
Austin American-StatesmanManor's New eduTech High School has bucked national trends by sending virtually all of its predominately low-income, minority students to college -- a feat that has thrust it into the spotlight. President Barack Obama's visit to the campus Thursday is...Tags: Family, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Engineering, Personal Income
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