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• Covenant with NC’s Children responds to budget proposal

  
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  The good people at the Covenant with North Carolina’s Children  just released this statement on the Berger budget plan: Senate budget short-changes NC’s children Budget would cut funding for early education and K-12 schools and remove cap on class size … Read More...
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• "Free" all-day K!

  
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  Twin Cities media outlets are trumpeting a provision of the state education bill on its way to Gov. Mark Dayton with the headline "free all-day kindergarten." Well, it is "free" — to everyone but the taxpayers. We can debate the efficacy of early childhood education for all, but there still is no such thing as ...
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• Building Community in an Online Class

  
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  Renee Citlau and her colleagues at Cypress High School in Anaheim, California, were puzzled why a student was performing much better in the online class Citlau taught than in his face-to-face classes, so she asked him why. The answer was heartbreaking. “I feel more comfortable in my online class because no one can ...
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• Neighborhoods surrounding closed Flint schools turn to ghost towns

  
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  "Our neighborhood is like a ghost town," said 16-year-old Jordan Spiller, who walks by more vacant homes than occupied ones on his way home from the bus stop near Bunche Elementary, which closed in 2012.
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• Half of closed Flint schools over last 10 years in predominantly black neigborhoods

  
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  Half of the schools closed in that time were north of Davison Road and Hamilton Avenue. Nine of those 11 schools that closed were on the northwest side of Flint.
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• Mothers Day gift: Genesee Early Colleges Willie McClure Jr. wins Gates Millennium Scholarship

  
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  Willie McClure Jr. became Genesee Early Colleges second Gates Millennium Scholarship winner.
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• Seeking Teachers’ Support, Mayoral Candidates Pledge Education Reform

  
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  At a forum on Saturday, several candidates said they would scrap signature policies of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, including his A-through-F grading system for schools. Read more: Seeking Teachers’ Support, Mayoral Candidates Pledge Education Reform
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• A Geography game using Google Street View – Geogessr

  
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  Think you really know Geography?  Geoguessr is an online game that uses Google’s Street View.   With a small map in the corner of Google’s Street View, you pin where you think the Street View scene is.   You then submit your guess and the distance from the real location is measured.     It’s […]
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• Safety Advocates Focus on Hidden Threats to Young Athletes

  
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  Concussions are drawing more attention, but some advocates are debating how to reduce preventable deaths from sudden cardiac arrest and heat stroke.        
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• Seeking Teachers’ Support, Mayoral Candidates Pledge Education Reform

  
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  At a forum on Saturday, several candidates said they would scrap signature policies of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, including his A-through-F grading system for schools.        
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• California May Cut Left-Leaning Program?

  
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  Its in education, though, and students dont vote, so this program is OK to cut as eventually the cries will go silent: Just a generation ago, California’s schools were the pride of American education (it’s one of the reasons my parents moved with me to California in the early 1960s). Today, tracking with the ...
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• Deep Space High Space Camp: The Sun – Stereo Observations

  
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  Ep 6: Jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. This time the class learn how to get a good look at two observatories!
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• Circuit Athletics to host Alpha Project

  
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  Clarksville, TN - Circuit Athletics Announces Availability of Alpha Project.  The premier conditioning seminar for young men seeking athletic scholarships Circuit Athletics announces immediate availability of Alpha Project, a 19-day total conditioning seminar designed to empower young men to reach and compete at ...
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• Panel Recommends Building New School at Site of Sandy Hook Elementary

  
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  A task force on Friday unanimously recommended tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School and building a new one on the site where a gunman killed 26 children and adults on Dec. 14.        
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• New Error Found in Test Scoring for Gifted Programs

  
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  The Education Department said Friday that roughly 300 additional students had been wrongly excluded from eligibility in public school gifted programs because of another mistake by the testing company.        
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• 13-Year-Old Playwright Awaits His Big Night

  
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  A class assignment led to Kyle Abrahamss winning entry in the Worldwide Plays Festival Competition, and it will be performed by professional actors on Saturday evening.
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• Librotraficantes Declare Victory; Remain Vigilant

  
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  Authors Tony Diaz and Dagoberto Gilb. (Photo by Liana Lopez) I want to congratulate my sisters and brothers in the cause, Librotraficante led by author Tony Diaz , on their victory against the anti-Ethnic Studies bills filed by Patrick and Capriliogne. Here’s a press release of a victory event held earlier ...
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• Deep Space High Space Camp: The Sun – Cluster

  
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  Ep 5: Jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. This time the class head out into space to view a small group of satellites called Cluster!
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• In Slovakia, Integration of Roma Mirrors Early Struggles in U.S

  
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  Eastern Slovakia’s elementary schools are a microcosm of one of Europe’s biggest challenges: how to bring its most disadvantaged minority into the mainstream.        
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• Thanks Father Barnabas (Tough Love Is Underrated)

  
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  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!  ES Senior Fellow Peter Cookson remembers his “mentor from the old school.” April 1961. I am about to graduate from Saint Mary’s High School on the south side of Phoenix, Ariz. I am a fair student at best, only functionally literate, vaguely interested in history, a bit of a ...
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