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We all know the Nintendo DS as a gaming system but it has been put to educational use Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The DS is being used as an electronic device that helps the students learn the English language. There are...
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Students at a private school in Washington’s tony Georgetown neighborhood were buzzing after a visit from Michelle Obama, who is scouting new schools for her two...
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AP, Beijing
State media says a truck driver killed 4 people and injured 20 by driving into a crowd of high school students coming out of class in southern China.
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Students hurled chairs in Rome’s Piazza Navona and protested noisily in cities across Italy on Wednesday as lawmakers gave final approval to bitterly contested...
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AP, St. Louis
At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called “Hit a Jew...
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AP, Columbus
Students at the Ohio State School for the Blind screamed with joy when they learned their marching band will make history at the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade.
made popular Oct 21 2008
Currently astronauts have to resort to drinking instant coffee heated by microwaves.In zero gravity, water floats in globules and adheres to any receptacle in which it...
made popular Oct 17 2008
AP, Sanger
Officials say six middle school football players have been injured when antifreeze from a broken water hose sprayed on them northwest of Dallas.
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On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new...
made popular Oct 13 2008
airfield High School foreign exchange student Glaucia Lie Terasaka thought she just might be crazy to hop on a plane and leave behind her family, her friends and the...
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AP, Pottsville
A Pennsylvania teen charged with killing a Mexican man has lost a bid to be sent to private school on the taxpayers’ dime.
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AP, Detroit
Three seventh-grade girls at a school in Monroe were ordered to strip to their underwear while a teacher investigated the alleged theft of $42, their parents charge.
made popular Oct 8 2008
A group of us were sitting around discussing South African education over a cup of coffee. We weren’t really talking about the problems in education today, or the...
made popular Sep 30 2008
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The chancellor of Liberty University has an ambitious plan to get the 10,500 students at the evangelical Christian college registered to vote in Virginia, a swing state...
made popular Sep 23 2008
Ask any teacher worth his/her grain of salt regarding the most difficult decision he or she has ever had to make and chances are the answer would be to pass or fail a...
made popular Sep 18 2008
AP, Washington
Students are doing better in elementary and middle school, but key indicators show little progress among high school and college students, Education Secretary Margaret...
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AP, Pottsville
Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.
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Kean University students visit the dead, the dying and convicted murderers. Along the way, they learn to value what they have.
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AP, Pottsville
Two small-town teenagers charged with murder and ethnic intimidation in the beating death of a Mexican man were granted bail Tuesday.
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AP, Milwaukee
Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world _ where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax...
made popular Aug 19 2008
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Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was...
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For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school.Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a...
made popular Jun 26 2008
As we\’ve discussed a number of times, the human brain is superb at image analysis, and computers come nowhere close to matching it. A pair of computer scientists...
made popular Jun 18 2008
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The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making...
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Schools could improve students’ sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions...
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What the National Mathematics Advisory Panel says students should know and when:___Fluency With Whole Numbers:_By the end of third grade, students should be proficient...
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AP, Washington
Schools could improve students’ sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions...
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Scientific advisers to the government emphasize in a report the importance of teaching evolution in public schools.The report by the National Academy of Sciences and...
made popular Jan 3 2008
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It’s tough to teach a college class when your students are constantly flying around the room.Just ask any professor who has opened a classroom in the online world...
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This curriculum guide offers a teacher or counselor assistance in teaching technology in a new way. Focusing on human issues and personal projects, this guidebook...
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In the coming years, the schools in England will see more male gentry. Training and Development Agency (TDA) for Schools has launched a drive to recruit male primary...
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