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Second graders steer Seagrove walk-a-thon
The Courier-Tribune, Asheboro, N.C.Two 8-year olds in Seagrove are quickly becoming community leaders. They are planning a food drive. Kinsley Cardin Chriscoe and Austin Bean wrote a letter to Seagrove Mayor Alan Hale asking for the town's support for them to hold a parade to gather...Tags: Schools, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Floyd County Teacher of the Year named
The Floyd PressLisa Bolt, announced as Floyd County Teacher of the Year earlier this week, said she always knew she wanted to be a teacher. For the past 11 years, she has been living out the dream, teaching kindergarteners at Willis Elementary School. Bolt told the...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Preschools
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Cabarrus Teacher of the Year has special connection to students
Independent Tribune, Concord, N.C.Students in local schools are taking tests and preparing for others this week, and in teacher Courtney Smith's seventh-grade English and Language Arts classes, it was no different on Wednesday. As her students at C.C. Griffin Middle School were about to...Tags: Literature, Crime, Law and Justice, Middle Schools, Teaching and Learning, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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CPS gets $1 million for arts education
A push to bring more arts instruction to Chicago Public Schools got a boost Wednesday when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an additional $500,000 in funding for the CPS Arts Education Plan for the coming school year. The new money brings total funding...
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Book mobile
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaThe blue and white bus sat in the middle of the Ped Mall last Saturday, its new logo -- Antelope Lending Library Bookmobile -- encouraging people to stop and ask questions. "What it this?" "Will it work like a regular library with cards and...Tags: University of Iowa, Libraries, Schools, Arts and Culture
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Local celebs compete with elementary students for charity
La Crosse Tribune, Wis.Sixteen local personalities will test their book smarts this weekend and find out if they could make the grade in an elementary school classroom. The annual "Who will be Smarter than a 5th Grader?" competition will be held from 10 a.m. until noon...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, Education, Students
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Disney honors 16 Central Florida students as Dreamers & Doers Shining Stars
Sentinel School ZoneDisney has named 16 Central Florida students who have helped their communities and excelled academically as the 2013 Dreamers & Doers Shining Stars. The group of students named Shining Stars include a third grader who organized food collection drives; a...Tags: Auburndale, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Education, High Schools
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Letter: Past provides lesson for solution to Catonsville school overcrowding
Learn from past for answers to overcrowding We have all heard, "If you don't learn from history, you are destined to repeat it." We must learn from events 18 years ago when citizens wanted the (County Executive Dutch) Ruppersberger Administration to...Tags: Kevin Kamenetz, Middle Schools, Schools, Catonsville
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Sweet business: A girl's wish evolves into a candy store
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.All 9-year-old Elasya Jessup wanted last fall was an American Girl doll. "It was a $100 doll," Elasya said. When her parents told her they would buy it but she needed to earn the money, she sold candy apples door to door in her neighborhood in High...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Apples, Schools, Apple iPhone
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The Virginian-Pilot Kerry Dougherty column
The Virginian-PilotLive long enough and you learn to cringe when public schools leap into the latest fad in education. Remember new math? Open classrooms? Whole language? Many of us were guinea pigs in these educational disasters. Now this. Some call them "baby"...Tags: Education, Schools, Public Schools
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Forging friendships
Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Ind.A group of 30 Chinese citizens -- students, teachers and an education delegate -- stayed with families and toured elementary schools in Logansport this week where they observed classes, learned about one another and forged friendships through a recently...Tags: Human Interest, Indiana University, Apple iPad, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Outgoing Bibb principal receives national award
The Macon TelegraphAmy Duke, principal of Bibb County's Springdale Elementary School, knew something was up when someone else called a staff meeting at her school Wednesday. However, Duke, who's leaving Bibb schools for a job in Dudley, was surprised Wednesday when she...Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Executive Branch, Washington, DC, Schools, Politics
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