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Schools should make exercise 'core' subject, U.S. panel urges
Reuters* Few students get recommended daily hour of exercise * 44 percent of schools cut exercise for more reading, math By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical...Tags: General Mills Incorporated, Crime, Law and Justice, Nike, Inc., Dwayne Johnson, Health and Safety at School
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School closings disappoint many aldermen
Tribune reportersAfter the Chicago School Board meeting Wednesday, many of the aldermen who argued unsuccessfully to keep schools in their wards open said they were disappointed with the process. Ald. Deborah Graham, 29th, said she went to testify at the school board...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Robert Fioretti, Carrie Austin, Chicago City Hall, Teaching and Learning
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EDITORIAL: County schools rise to a linguistic challenge; Finding old words
The Capital, Annapolis, Md.Just as the international supremacy of the dollar let Americans be spendthrift, the international supremacy of English made Americans lazy about learning other tongues. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted in 2010 that only 18 percent of...Tags: Language, Literature, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Students
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READER SUBMITTED: Cheshire Student Named One Of 141 U.S. Presidential Scholars
StatewideU.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced May 14, the selection of Aneri Pattani of Cheshire, who attends Cheshire High School in Cheshire, as a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Pattani is one of 141 outstanding American high school seniors that...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Students, Human Interest
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California won't get relief from No Child Left Behind law
The federal government made it clear again Monday that California will get no relief from education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Academic Progress, U.S. Department of Education
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CORRECTION: Correction
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.A story in the May 8, 2013, issue of Education Week about the nation's education policy debates misstated the timing of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's appearance at the NewSchools Venture Fund summit. It occurred May 1, a day after his speech...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Watertown
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Common Core Supporters Firing Back
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and initiating coordinated public relations and advertising...Tags: School Examinations, Arts and Culture, Mike Huckabee, Entertainment, PTA
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A Temple success, from India, speaks at Fox School commencement
The Philadelphia InquirerPallam Raju has a daunting job. In India, he oversees the education of 230 million children. Raju, 50, also oversees higher education as the minister of human resource development, a position to which he was appointed in October. On Thursday, he...Tags: Politics, India, Teaching and Learning, Heads of State, Students
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Two Tulsa students named Presidential Scholars
Tulsa WorldOklahoma's only two U.S. Presidential Scholars this year are from Tulsa. Among the 141 winners announced Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan were Sarah A. Keglovits of Holland Hall School and Stephen Slater of Booker T. Washington High...Tags: Chemistry, Arts and Culture, High School Sports, Washington, DC, Science and Technology
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
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Alonso's final report card
The reverberations from the departure of Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso will be felt nationally as well as locally. Six years ago, I was a member of the Baltimore school board that hired him. Our risky vision was to try to recruit a game-changer...
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Man stabbed in head, arrested in W. Baltimore domestic dispute
The argument could be heard first, neighbors said. Then the police lights began flashing through their windows. Residents in Baltimore's Upton neighborhood, not unfamiliar with police activity, said they peered outside. A man they recognized as a...
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