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Changes to exams introduced last year, which allow pupils to gain high grades without necessarily mastering algebra, have left students “much less well equipped” for further study at sixth-form, it is claimed. Mathematics in Education and ...
2009-08-13 08:00:00
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NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - IBM said on Thursday it expects its analytics business to grow at around 10 percent this year and between 15 and 20 percent from 2010 onwards. The analytics business, part of the company's global services business unit ...
2009-08-13 11:06:00
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BOSTON--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced the results of a recent Virginia study evaluating the instructional effectiveness of its iSUCCEED MATH™ program. The study reveals that iSUCCEED MATH not only improves students ...
2009-08-12 07:28:00
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RICHMOND (AP) – 71 percent of Virginia's public schools met annual benchmarks in reading and mathematics under the No Child Left Behind law. But 103 schools face sanctions after failing to achieve those goals, including a handful that have ...
2009-08-13 10:09:00
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Hamilton County Schools in Tennessee is looking to boost student performance in math with the help of a custom multimedia math curriculum built around Carnegie Learning's Bridge to Algebra Grade 8 and Algebra I. According to information released this ...
2009-08-13 09:04:00
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Department of Education says schools saw improvements nearly across the board in grades from 3 to 8 in reading and mathematics in the Maine Educational Assessment. The percentage of students meeting standards grew by ...
2009-08-13 10:44:00
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Although Bill Atkinson and his wife retired several years ago from their teaching jobs, the pair still looks forward to exercising their minds. Shortly after moving to Augusta County in 2000, the couple began leading a book discussion group that ...
2009-08-13 01:26:00
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Johannesburg — THE government is keen to see more black students gain access to university education. But two studies revealed this week just how ill-prepared many university students are to cope with their studies and just how immense the ...
2009-08-13 05:08:00
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THE future starts this morning for the class of 2009 and the first thing to be said is congratulations -- to pupils and teachers alike. If there is any bright spot in the current gloom it is the hope and talent reflected in the results of this new ...
2009-08-13 04:04:00
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STEPHEN Hawking was yesterday awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University collected the honour from the US President at a ceremony in the White House, flanked by 15 ...
2009-08-13 03:42:00
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ASHEVILLE — Incoming liberal arts students at UNC Asheville this fall will have the option of a new academic major in religious studies. The new program will offer courses in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Greek and Roman religions and a variety of ...
2009-08-13 05:08:00
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The new documentary Prom Night in Mississippi takes us to Charleston, Miss. - where high school students held their first racially integrated prom. Teaching Tolerance has teamed up with director-producer Paul Saltzman and HBO to create a teacher's ...
2009-08-13 05:08:00
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HUNTINGTON -- More dirt is about to move at Marshall University. The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission approved a $25 million grant Aug. 7 for the university's proposed Applied Engineering Complex, which is planned to house several ...
2009-08-13 04:39:00
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Stephen Hawking, the physicist, was last night awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour. Bestowing the medal on Professor Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time remained a bestseller for a record 237 weeks ...
2009-08-12 11:03:00
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For many years the government of Ghana has been collecting a tax revenue called NHIL, National health Insurance levy, of 2.5% of the value of all goods and services in Ghana towards health care. Nobody has ever given a clear account of moneys ...
2009-08-12 11:53:00
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