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• March 04, 2010
• 16:39

  Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Effective practices focused on student outcomes are the key to middle-grades success, write Trish Williams and Michael Kirst, not a particular grade configuration or curriculum.
• 15:05

  In New Book, Ravitch Recants Long-Held Beliefs

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Once an avid supporter of improving schools through accountability and choice, the scholar now says those ideas have led education astray.

• 14:33

  Pop Quiz: America Ferrera

   » ‎ Edutopia
  The star of Ugly Betty talks about her role as Save the Children's artist ambassador for education.

• 12:22

  Education Department Names Race to the Top Recipients

   » ‎ THE Journal
  The United States Department of Education Thursday announced finalists in the first phase of the Race to the Top competition.
• 12:02

  Westside Union SD Automates Timekeeping

   » ‎ THE Journal
  Westside Union School District of Quartz Hill, CA, which serves communities in the Antelope Valley about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, reported that it will automate its extensive district timekeeping processes with a solution from workforce management software provider Kronos.
• 11:59

  Early Intervention Program Addresses Academic, Behavioral Issues

   » ‎ THE Journal
  "Children who enter grade school with cognitive and social-emotional delays are at an increased risk for reading problems, academic underachievement, and becoming disengaged or disinterested in school." This assessment, from Janet Welsh, a research associate at Penn State University's Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, is at the heart of a new intervention program developed by researchers at the school to help families with kindergarteners at risk for poor school performance.

• 9:12

  Measure Allows Idaho Schools to Reopen Contracts

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 9:08

  Meeting on Kansas City School Closings Draws Large Crowd

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 9:08

  U.S. Survey Finds Sharp Drop in Children's Bullying

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 9:08

  R.I. School Leader Calls for Talks, Not Mass Firing

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 9:08

  Miss. Senate Gives Schools Option to Reduce Days

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 9:08

  S.C.'s Rex: Hike Cigarette Taxes to Keep Teachers

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  

• 3:50

  Technology Turns Students into Educators in Distance Learning Program

   » ‎ THE Journal
  High school students in a rural Texas district have started using videoconferencing to learn and teach as they reach out to the rest of the country using technology-based resources they've created themselves.