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• High School rankings

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 435
  KW: The big education news is a list of top high schools by US News & World Reports. It is interesting to look at what kind of schools won (many are specific and/or mission-oriented.) Also, to see the US News & World Reports rankings of all states in regards to high school education.And, if you [...]
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• Six tips for making the best out of parents evenings....

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  As the end of term approaches, many schools are holding their termly parents evenings. How useful these are can range right across the scale from very, to not at all... Some of this is, of course, to do with the age of the child and how helpful his or her teachers are. Some schools invite the children to come with ...
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• Book drive helps rebuild education in Uganda

  
  The Collegian Online — Authority: 143
  Twenty-three years of war has devastated the education system in northern Uganda.
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• Fears about science and initiatives to help...

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  Science and science teachers are worried. I know, because they keep telling me! They dont seem convinced that current exams are robust enough , that children are learning their subjects properly or even being taught them to a high enough standard (in Scotland, a number of schools dont even offer science as an option ...
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• Fab four films for Channel 4: Mike Figgis creates short films inspired by Liverpudlians’ reactions to art from the Tate Collection

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 153
  Four short films inspired by art at Tate Liverpool and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mike Figgis will be broadcast on Channel 4’s Three Minute Wonders . From Monday 14 – Thursday 17 December 2009 Channel 4 will broadcast four art films that show the people of Liverpool reacting and responding to renowned ...
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• Are you in favour of single-sex schools? Come and join the debate, Tuesday at 1pm.

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  The Times School Gate debate - do we need single-sex education? Single-sex education is very much in the news and this week there was both good and bad news for proponents of girls and boys separating for educational purposes. The good was reports that an increasing number of co-educational schools are trying out ...
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• 10 Secrets for Brains at High School

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 117
  Canadian Alanna Mitchell, this year’s winner of the Atkinson Fellowship in public policy named brains as the secret to better schools. Not all agree. Mitchell recalled a Minister of Education who asked a neuroscientist: “The brain? What does the brain have to do with education? ” In my renewal work ...
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• Does spelling matter? What teaching is really like - by a (rather depressed) teacher...

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  I hope that some of you have come across Mr Teacher , who writes his own, excellent, blog about teaching in London. However, he also says that he is "frustrated on a daily basis by the madness of the job I sometimes love" and adds that he believes that "most people would be genuinely shocked and appalled by ...
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• Urgent Call to White House – Help Teens!

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 117
  Government Funds Promote Failing Secondary Schools People say stimulus money simply creates new layers of bureaucracy that prolong broken secondary school programs. My question is: How will the White House Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education support teens to climb new mental  peaks?  Will ...
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• Should children be watching films at school?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  Joanne Jacobs asks this question, about School Time TV on her blog. She writes about how children in (American) schools seem to be watching an inordinate amount of videos during school hours and quotes one mother who discovered that her daughter had watched Enchanted in English class and Ratatouille, The ...
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• School "league tables"

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 141
  Ferdinand Von Prondzynski generously invited me to contribute a piece to his University Blog and I write about the arguments for not keeping parents in the dark about their childrens school as they are at present in Ireland, a policy that is surprisingly popular amongst educationalists here though not with parents ...
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• At a cost of an estimated £750m a year, are Sats worth doing?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  Are Sats the best, most useful way to measure childrens achievement in schools? Its a good question to ask today, as the results of the most recent national curriculum tests are published . The arguments for Sats - national tests which are the same for each child in each state school, with results published for all ...
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• Controversial school drug tests get under way in Hong Kong

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hong Kong, Dec 1 (DPA) The Hong Kong government Tuesday began a controversial trial project to test 22,000 secondary school pupils for drug use.From Tuesday, urine samples were being taken from pupils in 23 schools and results shared between teachers, police and social workers in a move to tackle a growing tide of ...
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• Injury to Alex Ovechkin Overshadows Capitals Win Over Carolina - Bleacherreport.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 143
  The two-time MVP is one of the faces on the NHL, and expected to carry the torch for the Russian Olympic team in Vancouver in February.  His absence for an extended period of time would hurt the league and put a serious dent in Russia’s Olympic Continue .. Last Wednesday night was meet the teacher night at ...
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• Longer school days

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 141
  The amount of human capital a person is usually proxied by years of education. But of course one can vary the number of days of education per annum or the number of hours per day. The number of days in school in Ireland is comparatively low it appears. So what would be the effect of lengthening the school day? This ...
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• German father charged over sons shooting spree

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The father of a German teenager who went on a shooting spree in March, killing 15 people, has been charged with manslaughter. Tim Kretschmer, 17, took his fathers pistol and burst into his former school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart, opening fire, before killing himself. His father has now been charged with 15 counts ...
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• New school project will ease overcrowding

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Loriaux, 414th Civil Affairs Battalion, surveys the foundation of a new secondary school being built in Kalour village in Kirkuk province, Nov. 22. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Douglas, 1st Cavalry Division. KIRKUK — U.S. Soldiers here are helping the village of Kalour construct a new ...
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• Get To Know P*N’s Staff: Jake Green

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 514
  Next up is another one of younger writers, he considers himself as just a writer for Platform Nation, but we consider him part of the family and as with all our writers a vital part of  Platform Nation.  Here’s what Jake Green without the “E” on the end had to say. This is not a picture of Jake or is it? ...
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• How to choose a school for a child with special needs

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 524
  I was very pleased to see the huge response to a piece I recently posted on Aspergers Syndrome , and how difficult it can be to see a child with this syndrome through the education system. Many of the comments posted were helpful and sensitive and I do hope notice will be taken of them. Educating a child with ...
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• Northern Secondary School Project Ignition-SmartRisk Road Safety Campaign

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 173
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