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In the ongoing debate about redistricting our current educational governance system, the focus has largely been on the adults in the system. I would like to shift the conversation to focus on what is in the best interest of our students and the ...
2010-03-09 05:45:00
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SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students. Higgins, of Laguna Niguel ...
2010-03-09 06:35:00
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QALAT, Afghanistan - To work in Zabul province these days is to feel forsaken. The Americans pulled a battalion out in December. The Afghan government promises help but sends little. Meanwhile, Taliban fighters continue to pour in. "I am alone," said ...
2010-03-09 06:28:00
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Actor John Malkovich Syracuse, NY--Oscar nominee John Malkovich and his production company will arrive in Syracuse this summer to film a story set in the Hotel Syracuse, according to Syracuse University. The film, "Hotel Syracuse," was co-written by ...
2010-03-09 06:21:00
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It should come as no surprise that when Minnesota raises the bar on tests that high school students must pass to graduate, some kids don't get a diploma. But five years after the state made the transition to the more challenging reading, writing and ...
2010-03-08 09:45:00
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Congress has a chance - a narrowing one, given the calendar - to prove it can do something important on a bipartisan basis: recommit the country to school reform. Among all of President Barack Obama's priorities, this may have the longest-term ...
2010-03-08 10:57:00
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It took an elbow to my head at 3 a.m. to realize we must be the last couple in the country still sleeping in a double bed. While the rest of the world has gone royal - king and queen - we remain peasants crowding for personal space in a humble double ...
2010-03-08 11:25:00
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NEW ORLEANS — For most NBA teams, Anthony Tolliver, Devean George and Reggie Williams would be small forwards. And not very intimidating ones, as the 6-foot-9, 243-pound Tolliver is the largest of the bunch. But when the huddle broke to start the ...
2010-03-09 12:01:00
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President Barack Obama is refashioning the nation's education policy in his own image. With Congress likely to revamp the No Child Left Behind law this year, Obama and his secretary of education, former Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, have been ...
2010-03-09 12:59:00
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The Central Falls, R.I., school that has become one of several locations of debate saw a mere 7 percent of kids passing their 11th grade state math exams. Therefore, the decision to fire those 93 teachers is valid, as the district, state or federal ...
2010-03-09 01:13:00
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THE SPOILS of an epic Oscar war went to "The Hurt Locker," which won Best Picture last night by beating the world's most popular movie, "Avatar." The movie won six awards in all (to "Avatar's" three). Kathryn Bigelow, who helmed the Iraq war drama ...
2010-03-09 01:20:00
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You know what makes a breakup even more awkward? Having to work with the other person after the relationship has ended. That's the awkward situation Cate (Shiri Appleby) and Ryan (Kerr Smith) find themselves in during their morning radio show. Their ...
2010-03-09 01:13:00
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Chicago at it height of corruption can be seen as Ron Huberman CEO of Chicago Public Schools announces a $1 Billion dollar deficit firing tenured teachers , cutting after school programs and cutting pension payments. What he doesn't tell people is ...
2010-03-09 01:27:00
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Reporting from Berkeley, Calif. - Goodwin Liu may be poised to become the youngest judge on the nation's busiest appeals court, but he was nonetheless a late bloomer. Born to Taiwanese immigrant parents, Liu didn't learn English until he went to ...
2010-03-09 01:13:00
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