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Co HB 12-1049: Bringing Common Sense To EducationColorado State Representative Judy Salano recently introduced CO HB 12-1049, giving parents the authority to decide if their child should take the TCAP exams, or allow them to be exempt for personal reasons, without negative consequences for the student, the teachers, the school, or the district.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 22:24
Meaningless In Missouri? Not In Santorum's View
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is looking for momentum as Republicans caucus and vote in three states on Tuesday: Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. And dissatisfaction with front-runner Mitt Romney in Missouri could point to a potential opportunity for President Obama in the fall.
npr.org | 07-Feb-2012 21:22
Medical Exam Provides Stage for Actors
Performers playact their symptoms for future health-care professionals
voanews.com | 07-Feb-2012 20:28
Halton student data lost on stolen laptop
A laptop containing thousands of Halton students' names, numbers and birthdates - even their standardized test scores - has been stolen, prompting the board to warn all parents of a possible privacy breach.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 18:14
Applying For Financial Aid Without The Fear Factor
Application deadlines for financial aid like grants, scholarships and student loans are just around the corner. But many students may need help getting their paperwork in order. Host Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna Badillo. She's the director of Gear-Up, a program designed to guide low-income students into higher education.
npr.org | 07-Feb-2012 18:00
Rise in student plagiarism cases attributed to blurred lines of digital world
University of Colorado student Jenn Roark, left, receives help from writing consultant Nancy Mann at the Writing Center on campus.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 14:04
Huguely pleads not guilty in slaying of U-Va. lacrosse player Love
View Photo Gallery - The former university men's lacrosse player is accused in the 2010 death of Yeardley Love, his ex-girlfriend and a player on the women's lacrosse team.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 09:45
Staff To Be Removed During Probe At LA School
The entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent said Monday night.
npr.org | 07-Feb-2012 08:12
UC Students Propose Alternative To Tuition Increases
Tired of tuition increases within the cash-strapped University of California system, a group of students has suggested eliminating tuition entirely. Instead, they propose graduates pay the system a percentage of their income over the subsequent 20 years.
npr.org | 07-Feb-2012 06:01
It's colleges, not students, who obsess over national rankings
When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 05:30
Charter schools to get boost under Malloy plan
Charter schools would expand and get more money under a plan by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration to be announced Monday, but some of the additional funding would have to come from local school districts.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 01:26
Cupertino High School locked down after student found with Nerf gun
Note to 30 Cupertino High School students. Um, bringing those Nerf guns to school wasn't such a good idea.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 21:11
Pennsylvania School District Goes Broke
The Chester Upland School District — a small, mostly minority district outside Philadelphia — is on the verge of going broke. State budget cuts and mismanagement by both local and state leadership have put the district in such financial straits that teachers and some other employees agreed last month to work without pay for the rest of the school year. A judge ordered the state to advance Chester Upland $3 million, but that will only keep the schools open for a few weeks.
npr.org | 06-Feb-2012 21:00
Texas sees a backlash against student testing
When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before school.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 18:06
Rich & Mark's Monday Morning View
It's not fair..I'm nothing like Wallace/Gromit..but then life is a box of chocolates..you never know what yer gonna git nexttt.. Winston Churchill was bald and so is Billy Hague.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 13:57
Haverhill a 'community of readers'
As Gordie Allen strolls through the hallways of New Haven High School, teens call out to him and several stop to chat.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 09:37
Freedom Plaza
View Photo Gallery - After Saturday's sweep of the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square, U.S. Park Police conduct a less contentious compliance check on protesters at Freedom Plaza, resulting in one arrest.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 05:17
Home Schooling: What's the Big Deal?
Homeschooling, like most things, is a personal decision each parent will make. Most families don't have the luxury of the option.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 01:03
Why do Idaho charter schools have 10% fewer Brown students than White?
Why do Idaho charter schools have 10% fewer Brown students than White? Is this "White flight" from Idaho's public schools? Couched in the option of so called "school choice," there is potential to regress into a political and cultural status once held decades ago. Segregation was once legal, a conviction that celebrated oneness and sameness in the name of so called freedom and opportunity. Segregation was, however, choice gone awry. So what is really meant by "school choice"? Are our Brown brothers and sisters as aware of the same "school choice" options as our White brothers and sisters? What would Dr. King say about so called "school choice"?
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 20:39
As colleges obsess over rankings, students shrug
In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 photo, students walk through the campus of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 19:48
Wild Dreams: Anonymous, Arne Duncan, and High-Stakes Testing
Last night I was re-reading a terrific little book from 1976 by Don Martin, George Overholt, and Wayne Urban: Accountability in American Education: A Critique .
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 18:43
DJ Doc's Kim Chang-ryul donates scholarship
Kim Chang-ryul, a member of K-pop group DJ DOC and a sophomore at Kyung Hee Cyber University, has given his performance fees from school events and commercials to underprivileged students at the university as scholarships, the school said Sunday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 16:39
A test for Cuomo
State Ed chief John King has two weeks to negotiate a teacher rating plan with the union - or Gov.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:29
Worshipers Kicked Out Of N.Y. School On Principle
For years, small churches have been meeting in New York City's public schools. One church, Grace Fellowship, has been gathering at PS-150 in Queens since 2006. In one week, though, they will be evicted. "Freedom for a church to take over a school and convert it to a house of worship is not what our Constitution stands for," says a civil liberties proponent.
npr.org | 05-Feb-2012 12:10
Derek Hunter: The Fight to Reform Education
Would any concerned parent willingly send their children to an average public school in this country if there was an option available? The word "concerned" in the question should be a tipoff that the answer is no.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 08:19
U.S. Park Police sweep Occupy D.C., arrest 7
Occupy D.C. protesters and police clashed in McPherson Square on Sunday as U.S. Park Police swept the encampment, removing bedding, tents and other belongings that did not adhere to the no-camping rules that began being enforced this past week.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 04:10
Wiregrass Technical College Cook Campus Fights For Life
EYE ON THE FORECAST A mild and humid Saturday morning with patchy fog, then mostly cloudy and warm with only isolated afternoon or evening showers.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 23:55
Elementary School District Enrollment Expected to Grow
As current trends continue to develop, student enrollment in the San Mateo-Foster City School District is expected to progressively increase over the course of the coming years, according to a district report.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 19:36
Superbowl Sunday snow: it's possible, but probably not consequential
The responsible storm system is on its way to breaking a single storm snowfall record for February in Denver but will weaken by the time it reaches the mid-Atlantic. Not to mention, there will be much less cold air to work with here.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 15:26
Garcia compromise may aid governor's education plan
State Rep. Mary Helen Garcia may have created enough middle ground to get through one of the most divisive bills legislators are considering this session.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:21
TAMS allows super-smart high schoolers to go their own speed
How many times have you heard it: Our kids are falling behind, or America needs more scientists and mathematicians.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:21
Claremont McKenna dropped from Kiplinger rankings
A magazine has dropped Claremont McKenna College from its best private liberal arts colleges list because the school reported inflated SAT scores.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 07:07
School Choice Advocates Pitch Tax Credit Scholarship Program
Many proposals encouraging educational choice are pending in Concord this year.A One with strong backing would use tax credits to encourage businesses to pay for school scholarships.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 02:58
Roundhouse looking at new teacher evaluations
Teachers in New Mexico may be evaluated under a new system within a few years, if any of three legislative bills making their way through the Roundhouse this session are signed into law.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:58
An - Arab Spring' of free online higher education
Here, to connect the dots, is a guest post from Abir Qasem , a computer scientist at Bridgewater College in Virginia, and Tanya Gupta , a senior resource management officer at the World Bank.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:58
Detroit To Parents: Time To Get Involved In Education
The city's school system is trying to get parents more engaged with their children's education in an effort to boost achievement and stop an exodus of families from the district.
npr.org | 03-Feb-2012 22:35
Fallout Continues In L.A. School's Lewd Photo Scandal
A second teacher has been removed from Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles as part of an investigation into lewd photos. One teacher has already been charged with lewd conduct with 23 students.
npr.org | 03-Feb-2012 21:00
Prison Meal Deal: Where The Staff Serves Lunch ... And Time
At the Fife and Drum Restaurant, located in a Massachusetts minimum-security prison, inmates learn to cook and wait tables. Regulars praise the tasty lunches served up at bargain prices. Prison officials say such job training reduces the chances prisoners will re-offend.
npr.org | 03-Feb-2012 20:30
Reporter's Notebook: It Will Get Better
When I graduated high school from Notre Dame in Fairfield it was 1997. And as a teenager, my only outlet for gay culture, as sad as it sounds, was the infamous coming out episode on the "Ellen" show and Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window." As a gay, closeted teen I would often sneak down to my father's office, wait the five minutes it took for ... (more)
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 19:43
Las Vegas Principal Hopes To Beat The Odds
Nevada has the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. But now a multi-million dollar federal grant is helping one district turn its schools around. Host Michel Martin speaks with a principal who spent last Saturday knocking on the doors of students who dropped out, encouraging them to come back to school.
npr.org | 03-Feb-2012 18:00
Mentoring programs propel kids to college
Fort Wayne Community Schools' high school graduation rate has increased for the fourth consecutive year, beating the state average in 2011, according to district officials.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:24
What others say: When schools cheat
Society trusts teachers and school administrators to deliver a lesson arguably more important than reading and math: Cheating is not only forbidden but dishonorable.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 11:14
Montgomery High School track coach charged for alleged sex acts with student
Then meet the team behind The Post's crime and justice coverage.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 06:59
Latest test scores for Salem County students released by state Department of Education
The New Jersey Department of Education released test score data Wednesday detailing how students fared on standardized testing both locally and statewide during the 2010-2011 school year.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 02:45
Don Cornelius' death strikes a chord in fans online
Don Cornelius, 75, the creator and host of "Soul Train," was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Los Angeles Police said Wednesday morning.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 22:30
Some Elyria and Lorain parents can begin applying for vouchers
Parents of children who attend 11 schools in Elyria and Lorain - considered to be the county's lowest-performing public schools - can begin applying to send their children to a private school of their choice using state-funded school vouchers.[caption id="attachment_109933" align="alignright" width="320" caption="Wendy Peterson works on ... (more)
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 18:16