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    Dec 26, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  1. Sandy Hook's Aftermath: Offering Support, Finding Help

    IF YOU WANT TO HELP: The Newtown Bee reports that Newtown town officials and community leaders asked Wednesday that people "temporarily halt any further dispatching of goods to the community, its schools, churches and nonprofit organizations." They said...

    Tags: Networking, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), University of Connecticut, Autism Speaks, Mental Health

    2. Oct 17, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. The Cornerstone of Success: Education

    It might begin with a child discovering a new word through a volunteer reading to them. Or perhaps a teen struggling in class receives the additional attention needed to pass a math test. These small acts can trigger years of learning and academic success. And when one child succeeds, an entire community is uplifted.
    It might begin with a child discovering a new word through a volunteer reading to them. Or perhaps a teen struggling in class receives the additional attention needed to pass a math test. These small acts can trigger years of learning and academic...

    Tags: Education, Bank of America Corp., Students, United Way , Nicor Incorporated

    3. Sep 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. L.A. Unified and charter groups win teacher evaluation grants

    L.A. NOW
    The Los Angeles Unified School District and three local charter-school groups have won federal grants to develop their teacher and principal evaluation systems, the U.S. Department of Education has announced. L.A. Unified, California’s largest...
    4. Oct 17, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  4. Local education group questions race-based student goals, asks U.S. DOE to review state’s plans

    Sentinel School Zone - Orlando Sentinel
    Fund Education Now, the group founded by three Orlando mothers, weighed in today on the controversy over the state's race-based student achievement goals, saying they amounted to writing off some students as an “acceptable loss.” The group...
    5. Nov 30, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. The University of Chicagoland — at Missouri

    — Take a walk around Lathrop Hall at the University of Missouri, and it won't take long before you meet someone from the Chicago area.
    — Take a walk around Lathrop Hall at the University of Missouri, and it won't take long before you meet someone from the Chicago area. There are the roommates from Barrington and Cary, and, two doors down, freshmen from Lemont and Mount Prospect....

    Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Eastern Illinois University, Awards and Prizes, Students

    6. Aug 31, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  6. Local districts seek Race to Top cash

    Sentinel School Zone - Orlando Sentinel
    Local school districts are going after more cash available under president Obama's Race To The Top school reform plan. Thirty-one Florida school districts have notified the U.S. Department of Education that they intend to apply for RTTT funds targeted...
    7. Sep 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Feds: Lawyer used bankruptcy clients' credit cards

    A Vernon Hills attorney used his bankruptcy clients’ credit cards and also had an employee create bogus tax returns so he could put off paying his student loans and buy a car, federal prosecutors said today.
    A Vernon Hills attorney used his bankruptcy clients’ credit cards and also had an employee create bogus tax returns so he could put off paying his student loans and buy a car, federal prosecutors said today. After the employee was arrested,...

    Tags: Justice System, Trials, Lawyers, Credit and Debt, Crime, Law and Justice

    8. Aug 31, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. 80 districts, including L.A. Unified, could vie for federal grants

    L.A. NOW
    Eighty California school systems plan to apply for a high-profile, federal school-reform grant that the state was unable to win in the past, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday....
    9. Sep 28, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  9. Orange wins grant to reward educators at “high needs” schools

    Sentinel School Zone - Orlando Sentinel
    The Orange County school district has won a federal grant that could provide it more than $25 million to reward “effective teachers and principals” at 11 schools. The district is one of six in Florida that won a 2012 Teacher Incentive Grants...
    10. Sep 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Feds to oversee Oakland schools' efforts to curb suspensions

    L.A. NOW
    The Oakland Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Education reached an agreement Thursday that would allow federal officials to monitor the district’s efforts to curb the number of out-of-school suspensions of its African American...
    11. Sep 18, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  11. Historically black colleges receive $228 million in grant money from federal government

    Sentinel School Zone - Orlando Sentinel
    Historically black colleges and universities throughout the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands were awarded $228 million in grants Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Education. Florida A&M University, Florida's only public, historically black...
    12. Nov 28, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Bullied to tears, bored to death

    Here's the thing about directing our attention so fully and passionately toward bullying: The people most affected by it are sick of talking about it.
    Here's the thing about directing our attention so fully and passionately toward bullying: The people most affected by it are sick of talking about it. "Kids are at the eye-rolling stage with bullying," says Cynthia Lowen, producer and writer of the 2011...

    Tags: Teaching and Learning, Bullying, Psychology, Documentary (genre), Bully (movie)

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