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Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner, historian, professor, dies at 81
Capital News ServiceCOLLEGE PARK, Md. Haynes Johnson best-selling author, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, historian and eminent professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism died Friday. He was 81. He entered Suburban Hospital in...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Heart Failure, News Media, Entertainment Events, Princeton University
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Allentown School Board approves cutting 154 jobs
Allentown School Board approved a curtailment of programs Thursday that eliminates 132 teachers and 12 administrators, pushing the financially challenged district to more than 400 jobs slashed over the past four years. The district's second curtailment...Tags: Allentown, Tom Corbett, Job Layoffs, Teaching and Learning, American School for the Deaf
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Hartford Schools' Announce 2013 Teacher Of The Year
The Hartford CourantMario Marrero's fourth-grade students believe their teacher is the best in "the whole wide world," in the proud words of one 9-year-old. Well, here's a start: the Betances STEM Magnet School educator has been named the city's 2013 Teacher of the Year....Tags: Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, South Windsor, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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FCAT writing scores rise, third-grade reading marks up slightly from 2012
Florida students wrote better essays on this year's FCAT than in 2012 and third-graders posted slightly higher marks on the state's key reading exam, scores released Friday show. The scores are the first wave of results from the 2013 administration of...
Tags: Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Seminole County, Education
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Lawmakers have a week left — and much unsettled
— State lawmakers went home to march in holiday parades this weekend, leaving behind a full dance card that looks a lot like the one they put together when they started in January: pension reform, gun control, gambling expansion and a budget....
Tags: Interior Policy, Christine Radogno, Michael Madigan, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Calipatria High celebrates day of sports, school camaraderie
Staff WriterCALIPATRIA — For nearly 30 years, the students and teachers at Calipatria High School have celebrated the end of tests and the closing of the school year with the Hornet Olympics. The day-long event gives teachers and students the opportunity to...Tags: Medina (Saudi Arabia), Robert J. Lopez, Teaching and Learning, Education, The Happiest News!
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After vote, school closings plan must race clock
Chicago Public Schools has just three months to oversee Mayor Rahm Emanuel's massive school closing plan, a process laden with logistical challenges that could prove every bit as difficult for the system as the months leading up to last week's vote. Here...Tags: Elections, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Mayor, Separation of Church and State, Politics
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Maize teacher charged with making criminal threat
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Maize High School teacher made his first appearance in court Friday. Prosecutors charged James Stiverson with one count of making a criminal threat. He accused of making threats against a school administrator during a Maize High School soccer game....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Education, Prosecution
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D41 slated to reconsider ban on 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'
Special to the TribuneThe controversial book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is getting a second chance at Glen Ellyn School District 41 after being taken out of eighth-grade classrooms at Hadley Junior High last month. After weeks of passionate debate...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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FCAT scores stay flat for third-graders, rise in writing for fourth grade
More than half of the third graders in Broward and Palm Beach counties are performing at or above grade level in math and reading, according to FCAT results released today by the Florida Department of Education. But this year, these scores might not...
Tags: Palm Beach County, Rick Scott, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Meadowbrook Elementary School
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Plainfield math teacher part of a national Common Core team
A Plainfield math teacher is one of 28 educators across the country who is helping draft lesson plans for new educational standards that will soon kick off in Illinois and across the country. Michelle Schade, 46, a sixth grade math teacher at Indian...
Tags: Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Plainfield (Will, Illinois), Education, Students
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Kids, teachers from devastated school reunite in Oklahoma
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins. Some children carried thank-you cards. A...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Briarwood, Entertainment, Mary Fallin, Radio Industry
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