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... watched better-funded school districts buy new math books that have been recommended by the state to meet academic standards. She figured Granite Falls can’t wait. The new books take a more traditional approach to mathematics than the current ...
2010-03-02 04:49:00
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Mango YOU DO THE MATH: Using school buses costs the city vastly more than free MetroCards. Meanwhile, the Education Department's $1 billion school-bus program moves only about 140,000 students, city statistics show. That's $786 million more for 445 ...
2010-03-02 05:39:00
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Yoon, Carol Kaesuk. Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science. Norton. 344p. ISBN 978-0-393-06197-0. $27.95. Even a rigorous taxonomic system is artificial and can sometimes disguise evolutionary relationships, leading to the “clash ...
2010-03-02 05:17:00
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Who’s counting, anyway? (Everybody, actually.) Maybe this is the month where a deadline finally matters. Maybe time being up means the game has to end this time. Now comes the brutal politics that answers some brutal math. The House lacks the votes ...
2010-03-02 05:46:00
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Vector/Matrix class redux Whenever I set out to (re)create a vector/matrix math package, I always wrestle with the decision: should I include separate functions for the special case where the vectors are dimensioned 3, and the matrices, 3×3?
2010-03-02 05:39:00
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Netuitive software replaces human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to understand normal system behavior across IT silos, isolate root causes and forecast problems before they occur. "It's great to have been selected as a CODiE ...
2010-03-02 05:25:00
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WASHINGTON— Nine House Democrats indicated in an Associated Press survey Monday they have not ruled out switching their "no" votes to "yes" on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, brightening the party's hopes in the face of unyielding ...
2010-03-02 12:17:00
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(RTTNews) - President Barack Obama Monday proposed $900 million in federal funding for programs to reduce dropout rates across the nation's high schools. Obama, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce, said that in the new American economy, graduating ...
2010-03-01 10:51:00
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Born: May 1950 in Richland. Education: Bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from Willamette University and a master's degree in civil engineering from Columbia University. 1975-1996: Began his career with Rocketdyne as a project engineer on ...
2010-03-02 12:31:00
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It was redemption of a sort for Harry Markopolos, a financial analyst-turned-investigator who spent nearly a decade on Madoff's trail — and whose warnings were largely ignored by securities regulators. Markopolos writes about his crusade in No One ...
2010-03-01 11:12:00
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Marysville Superintendent Larry Nyland says Tulalip Elementary doesn't deserve to be on a new list of Washington state's lowest-performing schools. In his view, the school progressed tremendously in the past few years — just not in ways that the ...
2010-03-02 12:31:00
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WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he favored federal rewards for local school districts that fire underperforming teachers and close failing schools, saying educators needed to be held accountable when they failed to fix chronically ...
2010-03-01 11:12:00
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New Gang of 14: Do the Math and Show Your Work In 2005, when Democrat filibuster threats against a number of Bush judicial nominees (select confirmation barriers that pale in comparison to the present Republican obstruction), the Republican majority ...
2010-03-02 12:31:00
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Turkish scholars excel with charter schools that emphasize science, math 12:31 AM CST on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News kunmuth@dallasnews.com A decade ago, a group of Texas university professors and ...
2010-03-02 12:24:00
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The budget includes funding for a math specialist, a case manager for special education students, two part-time positions devoted to integrating technology into classrooms, and a physical education/wellness teacher for the high school, If voters ...
2010-03-02 12:31:00
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