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Children Count Too

Children Count Too is a new campaign about the importance of counting infants and young children in the 2010 Census.
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Grier wants new offers to run alternative school

3.9.10 - Houston Federation of Teachers President Gayle Fallon “That jerk is willing to throw these kids away rather than save them so he can divert a few dollars into his asinine new programs that no one wants,” she said. ...
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Labour's push for 50% to attend university 'has devalued degrees'

3.9.10 - The Association of Graduate Recruiters said an 'obsession' with higher education had led to a boom in unchallenging courses at below-average institutions. ...
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Judge to end oversight of city schools

3.9.10 - The often-contentious 26-year-old lawsuit that attempted to provide equality for Baltimore's special-education students but ultimately helped to change the course of the public school system is nearing an end after a federal judge agreed Monday to end his oversight. ...
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District to appeal ruling on classroom banners

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The Poway Unified School District will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that school officials violated the constitutional rights of a high school math teacher when they ordered him to take down classroom banners that referred to God.
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Jay Mathews: Ravitch, unpredictable, still likes NCLB basics

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3.9.10- Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever, since those who preceded her, including some of her mentors, did not write nearly as well. Her "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms" is a masterpiece.
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I Love Mr. Tony

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3.8.10 - Anthony Melillo - After working for most of my life in the computer field, and being downsized like so many others, I found myself working part time at a church and was asked to fill in for a teacher at the end of the year.
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Victory for teacher at centre of assault row

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Scotland’s largest teaching union has called for school staff to be given greater protection from abusive pupils after a teacher who was sacked by his employers won an out-of-court settlement.
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Demystifying Social Change, A Series Part 3 A Basis of Unity

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3.8.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D. - A choir is practicing. After a pause, the conductor signals it to resume but the sound is like fingernails on a chalkboard. The conductor taps the music stand and says “A little alertness please. We’re on page four, measure three.”
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Pelosi's grip on House slips

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er the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Blue Dog Coalition and politically vulnerable first- and second-term members.
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Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary?

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Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement.
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Solar lobbyists demand government protection to prop up industry

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3.9.10 - It was like a scene from Atlas Shrugged: Polly Shaw of China-based Suntech told an Arizona House Government Committee hearing that massive solar production subsidies and even bigger consumer subsidies were not enough. If the Legislature passed House Bill 2701
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Science Education News from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

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HHMI has selected five exceptional individuals to receive the 2010 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. These students will join a dynamic group of 30 Gilliam fellows, who share a passion for science and a commitment to increasing diversity in the sciences
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Reading Horizons Unveils New Company Logo

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North Salt Lake – March 8, 2010 – Today Reading Horizons, one of the pioneers in reading software, unveiled its new corporate logo and other re-branding elements. The release of the new logo coincides with the release of the redesign of Reading Horizons website: http://www.readinghorizons.com
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