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Teel Time: Jones' former boss at American calls ODU's hire 'a home run'
Keith Gill and Jeff Jones go way back, further than Jones could have known, back to the days when Gill was a Duke student and Jones was Virginia’s head basketball coach. “Watching those teams play, the Bryant Stith teams, the Jason...
Tags: Vanderbilt Commodores, Big 12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball
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College campuses make changes to improve student safety
WDBJ7 ReporterSchool safety - two words you hear all the time these days. There's been a lot of attention on elementary, middle and high schools. But what’s changed on college campuses since the Virginia Tech Shootings in 2007? The U.S. Department of Education...Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Politics, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Government
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Air academy adds railroad program
The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.The tooting of wood train whistles on Tuesday kicked off the announcement of a new freight railroad operations training program in Vancouver. Starting July 15, Northwest Railroad Institute, a satellite location of the International Air and Hospitality...Tags: Travel, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Railway Transportation, Transportation
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Movement growing to opt out of standardized tests
Daily American Staff WriterAs the annual standardized tests are being administered in Pennsylvania schools starting this week, a movement is growing among parents to opt out of the tests. North Star Superintendent Shawn Kovac said the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests...Tags: Washington, DC, School Examinations, Standardized Testing, Science and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Obama Proposal on Student Loans Draws Fire
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The Obama administration has found itself at odds with a key voting block--college students and their advocates--as well as many of its Democratic allies in Congress, because of an important, if technical, budget proposal that could have significant...Tags: Politics, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Republican Party
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BRIEF: Educational Equity
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that state funding formulas for public schools based on local property taxes are not unconstitutional, a report says it's time to push for new efforts...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Politics, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Conservation
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Beta Testing Ed. Products Can Get Tricky for Schools
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Beta testing is one of the most basic steps on the path to getting education products and ideas into the classroom--and, researchers and developers say, one of the trickiest to get right. As applied to K-12, the term generally refers to the early...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Brookings Institution, Biology, Students, University of Michigan
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Early Learning a Target of Fresh Federal Grants
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Armed with another $490 million, the U.S. Department of Education is poised to award new Race to the Top grants to districts for general education improvement ideas and to states for more early-learning initiatives. About $120 million of the federal...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Barack Obama
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BRIEF: Hawaii Union Reaches 4-Year Contract Deal
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.After a standoff that lasted two years, the Hawaii State Teachers Association last week approved a contract that ties teacher evaluations and pay raises to student test scores. The action marks a key victory for the state in its quest to keep its Race...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Academic Progress
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Local environmental education earns 'green ribbon'
It pays off to go green. The school district of Palm Beach County and Driftwood Middle School in Hollywood were nationally recognized this week for reducing their carbon footprint and promoting environmental education. Driftwood was one of two schools...Tags: Palm Beach County, Washington, DC
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EDITORIAL: Education, wages inexorably intertwined
The Idaho StatesmanAt long last, Idaho is No. 1 in something and it has nothing to do with Boise State's football team. Idaho has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in percentage of workers earning the minimum wage of $7.25 -- a standing that Department of...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama
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Three Connecticut Schools Receive Federal 'Green Ribbon' Award
The Hartford CourantThe Mary Hooker Environmental Sciences Magnet School is one of three Connecticut schools named U.S. Green Ribbon Schools for their focus on energy conservation, sustainability and stewardship. Principal Peter Dart said students and staff learned of the...Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, Lobbying, Energy Saving, Magnet Schools
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