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1 hr ago | Sunherald.com

Teacher training – especially in California – gets poor grades

But the vast majority of teacher preparation programs in the state are still failing to adequately prepare teachers, according to a controversial new report Tuesday that rated more than 1,200 schools of education across the nation.

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Related Topix: Illinois State University

5 hrs ago | US News & World Report

Three Ways MOOCs Will Change Colleges

With college tuition prices spiraling ever upward, it seems counter-intuitive that top schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University would also be racing to make their courses free online.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rice University

9 hrs ago | The Spectator

The economic case for sacking bad teachers

It's not often that M&G's retail bond team link to education pieces; they tend to be more interested in inflation threats and sovereign defaults.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Family, Kids

10 hrs ago | USA Today

States boost college funding, rein in tuition costs

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.

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Related Topix: Minnesota, Ohio State University, Purdue University, University of Arizona, 9

13 hrs ago | Business Journal

Connectloud names Naseh as president, CEO

Former Cisco Systems executive Zeeshan Naseh has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Connectloud Inc., a Dallas-based technology startup, the company announced Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

18 hrs ago | Almanac

Envisioning a 'frontier of possibility'

On a newly built campus, in a spacious new auditorium, at the start of a school year, a dynamic new principal took the microphone.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Kids, Menlo Park, CA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sound of voice may not reward autistic kids

Reward centre: It is likely that children with autism don't attend to voices because they are not rewarding or emotionally interesting say researchers Some children with autism have weak brain connections in regions that link speech with emotional rewards, possibly signaling a new pathway in treatment, say researchers.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

Breitbart.com

Bloomberg: Same-Sex Marriage 'Civil Rights Issue of Our Time'

Speaking at Stanford University's commencement on Sunday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg not only compared the push to legalize same-sex marriage to Martin Luther King's civil rights movement but said he believed all 50 states will eventually legalize gay marriage.

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Related Topix: New York, NY, Michael Bloomberh, Gay/Lesbian

Virgin Islands Daily News

Charlotte Amalie High School Class of 2013 Charlotte Amalie High School adds 274 alumni

Daily News Photo by AISHA-ZAKIYA BOYD Charlotte Amalie High School graduated 274 students Sunday night during the school's 83rd annual commencement program held at the University of the Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center on St.Thomas.

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Related Topix: University of the Virgin Islands, World News, Virgin Islands, Central America, Standardized Testing, Education, Xavier University

Freshnews

MdBio Foundation Names New Board Members

The MdBio Foundation today announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Gil Gutknecht, Republican, US House of Representatives, University of Minnesota

The Epoch Times

Bloomberg Urges Stanford Grads to Join NYC's Tech Boom

More than 4,000 students sat in the field at Stanford University's stadium, with their families and friends cheering them from the stands as they received their diplomas.

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Related Topix: New York, NY, Michael Bloomberh

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Medical Daily

Teaching Girls Self-Defense Radically Reduces Rape In Kenya

For a cost of only $1.75 per student, a self-defense training in an impoverished area of Kenya cut rapes among adolescent girls from nearly one in four to fewer than one in 10. A short and simple self-defense class for girls who live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, dramatically reduced the number of rapes.

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Related Topix: Life, Self Defense, World News, Kenya, Walnut Creek, CA

The Washington Post

Learning Options: MOOCs, or massive open online courses

For K-12 math teachers, parents and tutors; designed to change students' relationships with math.

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Related Topix: Vanderbilt University, Education

Jerusalem Post

TAU, Technion to offer free online courses

Tel Aviv University and the Technion announced on Sunday their partnership with the international education company Coursera, which provides free online courses.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Princeton University, Yale University,

Daily Herald

Glenbard program truly a treasure

Recently my wife and I had the pleasure of listening to highly sought after speaker, Stanford University's Dr. Carol Dweck, talk at Glenbard West High School as part of the monthly Glenbard Parent Series, or GPS.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Times

Brenau University in early stages of accepting free online course credits

Online education isn't new, but there has been a recent spike in interest in online college courses - especially free ones.

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Related Topix: Brenau University, Science, Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Seeker Blog

Econtalk: Epstein on the Constitution

If you are at all interested in the evolution of the US Constitution then you will learn from this Econtalk where Russ Roberts interviews constitutional scholar Richard Epstein of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Related Topix: New York University, US Supreme Court, US News

Examiner.com

Stanford Jazz Festival is a great place for a date

If you and your significant other are true jazz lovers then this is a great opportunity you do not want to miss.

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Related Topix: Stanford, CA

KRCR

Goodbye Ahmadinejad, hello Rouhani

In a few weeks, he will hand over the mantle of presidency to Hassan Rouhani, who stood victorious Saturday after Iran tallied all its votes in the national election.

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The Guardian

Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes'

Whether first ladies, prep school classmates or sisters with a spooky secret, Curtis Sittenfeld's characters are strikingly realistic.

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Related Topix: Laura Bush, Journalism