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Preparation for new evaluations begins
RAPID CITY — School districts in South Dakota will receive handbooks that can be used in evaluating teachers and administrators when the new state requirement takes effect in 2014. The state Department of Education also will offer an Internet...Tags: Teachers, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Students
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State's Request for Waiver from Education Law Approved
Channel 2 NewsThe Obama administration has approved Alaska's request for a waiver from provisions of the federal education law No Child Left Behind. In 2011, the administration announced it would let states avoid certain requirements, like students showing they're... -
California won't get relief from No Child Left Behind law
The federal government made it clear again Monday that California will get no relief from education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more...
Tags: Arne Duncan, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Students
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READER SUBMITTED: U.S. Officials Visit Meriden Schools And Family Zone
MeridenFor the second time in just eight months, federal education officials visited Meriden on Friday, May 10, to learn about groundbreaking work taking place in the schools. The visit began at 7:45 a.m. at Casimir Pulaski Elementary School, where Deborah...Tags: Casimir Pulaski, Middlesex Community College, Elementary Schools, Waterbury, Schools
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Options lacking for parents of disabled kids at F schools
The notice in the mail told Carmen Olmeda she could transfer her profoundly disabled daughter out of Orange County's F-rated Magnolia School. But there is no other county school that can meet the needs of 18-year-old Loly, who needs hourly glucose...
Tags: Hillsborough County, Teaching and Learning, Brevard County, Rick Scott, Students
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READER SUBMITTED: CREC's Metropolitan Learning Center In Bloomfield Ranked A Top 20 Connecticut High School
BloomfieldCREC's Metropolitan Learning Center for Global and International Studies was recently ranked 17th among the state's nearly 200 high schools reviewed by U.S. News and World Report. The school's rank also comes with a "Silver Award," placing it among the...Tags: High School Sports, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, High Schools, Schools
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LETTER: Underreporting Sex Abuse Increases Risk
I am glad that Yale University is facing a $165,000 fine from the U.S. Department of Education for numerous violations relating to its underreporting of forcible sex offenses and other serious crimes [May 16, CTNow, "Yale Faces $165K Fine"]. Yale...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Yale University
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Yale Faces Federal Fine Of $165,000 For Failure To Report Campus Crime Stats
The Hartford CourantYale University is facing $165,000 in fines for failing to properly report campus crime statistics, including sex offenses, after a review by the U.S. Department of Education that began in 2004. A letter from the DOE, dated April 19, said Yale will be...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Hospitals and Clinics, Sex Crimes, Fines, Yale-New Haven Hospital
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Joanne 'Jodi' Marie Liedtke
Memorial services for Joanne "Jodi" Marie Liedtke, 61, from rural Glenham will be 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Mobridge. Inurnment will be at Bethany Lutheran Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of...
Tags: Human Interest, Lifestyle and Leisure, Painting, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Maryland's McDaniel College closing the 'opportunity gap'
Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on...
Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Teaching and Learning, Economy, Business and Finance, High Schools, The New York Times
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University of Virginia is one of nation's least economically diverse
A new report says the University of Virginia remains one of the nation's least socioeconomically diverse public schools but commends the University of Richmond for serving low-income students. The report released Wednesday by the New America...
Tags: University of Richmond, Colleges and Universities, Personal Income, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Education
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Is college worth it?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The message that everyone should go to college does a disservice to the 60 percent of students who do not finish their degrees within six years, according to new research from Brookings Center on Children and Families, a non-...Tags: Graduation, State University of New York, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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