Oklahoma plan would make it easier to fire teachers (Reuters)
Reuters – An education reform bill that makes it easier for school boards to fire poor performing teachers was approved on Thursday by the Oklahoma state Senate.
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Oklahoma plan would make it easier to fire teachers
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Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com)
Time.com – Student newspapers at various Ivy League schools are all reporting that as application rates have soared, admission rates have dropped
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Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year
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Jury asks for NJ school murder suspect’s testimony (AP)
AP – The first afternoon of jury deliberations has ended in the trial of a man charged with wielding a machete in the execution-style slayings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard.
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New education push: 1 million volunteers to help struggling students (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Community organizers want you. Whether it’s helping out in a classroom, tutoring after school, or mentoring a teenage church group, they’re hoping to galvanize more on-the-ground service to bring up early reading skills and graduation rates.
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New education push: 1 million volunteers to help struggling students
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Official: Kids gave ‘flu shot’ with found needle (AP)
AP – School officials in Massachusetts say two elementary school children were given medical attention after they played doctor with a hypodermic needle that one of them found on the street on his way to school.
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Cheating On The Hard Work of School Reform (Time.com)
Time.com – A cheating scandal in D.C. — not students cheating on tests, but adults cheating for them — tells us that while we have many outstanding teachers and schools delivering powerful instruction, too many cannot
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1 dead in shootings at Houston school field (AP)
AP – One person was killed and five others were injured Wednesday in a shooting at a football field at a Houston high school that witnesses and police said appeared to be gang-related.
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1 dead in shootings at Houston school field
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US House reinstates DC school voucher program (AP)
AP – The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reinstate school vouchers for District of Columbia students, reviving the only program that uses federal tax dollars to subsidize private-school tuition.
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Avoid Loan Delinquency and Default (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – Caveat emptor! Your student loan documents probably do not explicitly state “let the buyer beware”–but maybe they should. A sobering report released this month by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, “Delinquency: The Untold Story of Student Loan Borrowing,” suggests that a majority of students struggle to repay their loans.
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ROTC returns to Harvard: Does officer training program need Ivy League? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – When Harvard put out the welcome mat earlier this month to reestablish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, it signaled a thawing of chilly relations between the military and elite universities that date back to the Vietnam War.
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ROTC returns to Harvard: Does officer training program need Ivy League?
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