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		<title>Can Schools Run Better without Implementing Educational Policies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not only mandatory for the school districts to initiate educational policies into schools but also crucial for the federal government to ensure that the educational standard is same for each and every student. Although the policies usually relate to the learning standards, every school must develop and implement policies with the intention to safeguard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials consider proposed changes to JCPS student assignment plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Martel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. &#8212; Jefferson County Public School officials considered proposed changes to the student assignment plan at a meeting on Monday. “I think they&#8217;re finally starting to look at what the community wants. One of the things we heard with our six cluster configuration on the elementary side was long bus rides,” said Larry Hoja, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fla. Students Crash After State Raises Bar On Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Outhwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florida Board of Education has voted to temporarily lower the passing grade for its state writing test after a dramatic drop in scores on this year&#8217;s exam. The state had made the test more difficult and raised the passing grade in an attempt to upgrade standards. But education officials were stunned when preliminary results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy groups charge Wake schools discriminate against Spanish-speaking students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 02:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Outhwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two advocacy groups are threatening to file a federal civil rights complaint against the Wake County school system over allegations that Spanish-speaking families are being discriminated against by not receiving information in their native language. In a letter sent Tuesday to Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Advocates for Childrens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DfE announces overhaul of head teacher qualification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 06:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Martel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Education (DfE) announced a major overhaul of the head teachers qualification yesterday (December 6th) as it continues its major reforms of the national education system. The existing qualification, the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) will be revised with the aim of opening it up to all prospective head teachers, allowing them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a community being unethical if it does not provide good schools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 05:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dakota Goldberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Mike Rawlings raised a provocative question during a speech at SMU yesterday. He was speaking to a forum put together by SMU&#8217;s Simmons School of Education and Human Development, its Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and its Center on Communities and Education. The focus of the meeting was the ethical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Education &#8211; A Trap or Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a wish to attain sheer success in the professional world? Do you want to make your name get highlighted in bold letters in front of the gate of your own office cabin? Then, you must start building up your base at best, so that in future it can reach you to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use herbs for medical related purposes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herbs are often used for medical related purposes effectively. They are so widespread because they provide fast relief, they are less expensive than prescription drugs, and they have no dangerous side effects. Many naturopaths who use herbal medicines know that they have amazing healing powers. Herbal medicine is the first form of healthcare. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outside toys can become a great Christmas gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variety is important for your children, because most of them will get bored easily if stuck with the same old story. So, outdoor playing can be a great idea if you buy attractive toys for your children. Climbing frames If your child is overactive and loves to climb furniture, don’t restrict him or her to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Fowler Teacher of Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dakota Goldberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michele Stork Special to Eagle Kamela Patton, Collier County Schools superintendent, with Chris Fowler of Marco Island after she surprised him at Lorenzo Walker Institute,. naming him the Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year. Chris Fowler of Marco Island has been named Collier County Post-Secondary Teach of the Year. Collier County Schools Superintendent Kamela Patton made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Several NC governor hopefuls talk public schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Outhwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leading Democratic candidates for North Carolina governor did little to differentiate themselves on their views on public schools during a forum Thursday that placed them on the same stage for a debate-style event for the first time during the condensed primary campaign. Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge and state Rep. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesse Jackson to visit Whitehaven High School in Memphis on Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Martel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Jesse Jackson will visit Whitehaven High School in Memphis on Monday for what school officials describe as a non-partisan voter education/registration rally. Jackson, the prominent civil rights activist from Chicago, will be at the school at 4851 Elvis Presley Blvd. from 10 to 11 a.m. &#8220;During the visit, Rev. Jackson will encourage the school’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constructivizing STEM</title>
		<link>http://www.zanschool.org/school-advisory/constructivizing-stem</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dakota Goldberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following guest post is by Katharine Beals, who blogs about education at Out in Left Field, where this post also appears.  rp. Its hard not to detect a certain worry among those who write STEM articles for Education Week that the drive to educate students for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics might include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the Goodnight Moon Game with my daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Martel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My two obnoxious sons were away with grandma, the baby was asleep, and mom was off doing mom stuff. This gave me the opportunity to spend one-on-one time with my 2-1/2 year old daughter Jillian. We took the Goodnight Moon matching and memory game out of the closet and got busy! The Goodnight Moon game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Chapter For A Trusty Bookmobile?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Outhwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across America, libraries used to reach out to readers by sending bookmobiles into school parking lots, street corners and rural byways. Now, those rolling reading rooms are becoming scarce — too costly and outmoded, some say. One town in northern New England just lost its bookmobile. The Cobleigh Public Library in Lyndonville, Vt., had managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of student allegedly sexually assaulted on school bus speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Martel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Louisville mother says her daughter was held down on the school bus and sexually assaulted. Louisville Metro Police are investigating and the mother wants to make sure the alleged attackers face consequences. WHAS11’s Renee Murphy talked with the mother and the girl’s grandmother in an exclusive interview. “They actually put their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCSU slowing growth, aiming for more graduate students</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Outhwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCSUs enrollment grew nearly 20 percent in the decade ending in 2010, but university leaders began throttling back and now plan to increase the number of students more slowly to about 37,000 by 2020. Thats a rise of about 6 percent from the current enrollment of about 34,800. Most of that growth would come from [...]]]></description>
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