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48 min ago | WSB-AM Atlanta

Perdue Education Bills

A couple of measures by Gov. Perdue are making their way through the House and Senate including one to change the way teachers are paid in Georgia.

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5 hrs ago | Inter Press Service

EDUCATION-INDONESIA: Mobile Classes A Lifeline to Dropouts

Child activist Seto Mulyadi at a mobile class in a mosque in Bintaro, South Jakarta.

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Related Topix: World News, Indonesia, Home Schooling

Tue Feb 09, 2010

CBS 46

Are Fulton Students Getting Equal Education?

Former teacher Dan Young has studied Fulton County schools for three decades. He said there has always been a noticeable gap in achievement between the schools in the north part of the county and the south.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education Etc.

The Reporter

Education law has failed U.S.: Overhaul is welcome

There's only one appropriate response to reports that President Barack Obama is proposing to revamp the No Child Left Behind education law: It's about time.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education Etc.

News-Star

State revenue officials to explain education expense tax break

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Revenue is hosting meetings across the state at 6 p.m. Tuesday to provide information and answer questions about the series of tax deductions known as the Louisiana School Tuition & Expense Tax Deduction.

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Related Topix: Baton Rouge, LA, Baton Rouge Metro, Home Schooling

590ktie.com

Thomas Sowell The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part IV

Mixed up with the question of fairness to individuals and groups has been the explosive question of whether individuals and groups have the innate ability to perform at the same levels, if they are all treated alike or even given the same objective opportunities.

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Florida Times-Union

Teachers support Gov. Sonny Perdue's performance pay proposal

Quoting results of a survey completed by 20,000 Georgia teachers in December, Gov.

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Related Topix: Georgia, US Governors, Sonny Perdue, Georgia Government, Standardized Testing

News 8 Austin

White, Shami square off in a mild, well-mannered debate

Former Houston mayor Bill White and Houston hair care businessman Farouk Shami made their pitches to a live television audience in the first Democratic gubernatorial primary debate Monday.

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Related Topix: Houston, TX, School Vouchers, Death Penalty

Mon Feb 08, 2010

TheSpectrum.com

Music education helps increase academic test scores

I recently attended the All-County Honor Band concert at the Cox Auditorium. Every year I'm amazed at how these middle and high school students can take a day and a half of rehearsing together and turn it into a professional, well-performed concert for the community to enjoy free of charge.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT, Standardized Testing

thejhub.com | Michael Strickland

Help get software into the hands of kids and teens with autism for free

A Google software program called SketchUp, which was intended largely for architects and design professionals, has found a very unexpected and welcome fan base-children with autism.

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Related Topix: Autism, Health, Family, Kids, University of Utah, Boulder, CO

AllHipHop.com

Hip-Hop for Educational Change: We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

He returns next week.] The current public school system in America is in a state of emergency.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education Etc., Opinion

WisInfo

Students keep up with studies with online schools

As children in 14-year-old Selena Gonzalez's neighborhood wait at the school bus stop each morning, she watches from behind a computer screen in her living room.

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Related Topix: Whiting, WI, Education Etc., Waukesha, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Standardized Testing

WSMV-TV 4 News

Change Ahead For Two Metro Schools

Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools, Dr. Jesse Register and the Commissioner of Education will announce changes for Cameron Middle and Glencliff High School during a press conference Wednesday morning.

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Related Topix: Nashville, TN, Nashville Metro, Standardized Testing

Home - Redlands Daily Facts

Cost of teaching English to immigrant adults $630M

California taxpayers have shelled out about $630million over the past 13 years to provide English classes to immigrant adults.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Riverside Metro, San Bernardino, CA, Cal State San Bernardino, Standardized Testing, San Bernardino County, CA

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Investment in education pays huge dividends

Despite some hopeful glimmers on the economic horizon, polls indicate that the condition of voters' pocketbooks is the topic most on their minds.

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Related Topix: Iowa City Metro, Iowa City, IA, Standardized Testing, Johnson County, IA

The Huffington Post

Tom Vander Ark: Proposed Education Bargain: Half Right, Big Risks

Message refined, Secretary Duncan is doing the morning show circuit socializing a proposal for the reauthorization of federal education policy.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, Standardized Testing

South King County

Education news: Decatur pep band, Literacy Breakfast, SAT seminar, a Forgotten matha

Education news: Decatur pep band, Literacy Breakfast, SAT seminar, - Forgotten math' Jan 29 2010, 4:18 PM UPDATED Live and Let Die: The Rock Wood Fired Pizza and Spirits is holding its annual School of the Rock Battle of the Bands.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Federal Way, WA

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Physical education too valuable to sacrifice to budget cuts

Childhood obesity is at epidemic proportions, so much so that Michelle Obama has taken on that cause as first lady.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Michelle Obama, Saginaw Valley State University, Standardized Testing, Opinion

Easton Express-Times

Lehigh Valley educators optimistic about Obama education plans

President Barack Obama's budget proposal released this week includes overhauls to the No Child Left Behind Act that could revamp federal education funding and move away from a reliance on student test scores.

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Sat Feb 06, 2010

Dallas Blog

Interview: Higher Education Commissioner Paredes

Lawmakers these past few years have emphasized structuring the higher education system to ensure that a higher percentage of students earn degrees or certificates in a more timely manner.

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