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Several area schools awarded honors from the Board of Education
WDBJ7 ReporterA few area schools received big honors from Richmond Wednesday. The Board of Education Excellence awards were given to 51 schools across the state. The only school in Roanoke City to receive the award was Crystal Spring Elementary. It met all...Tags: Russell County, Landforms, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia), Montgomery County (Virginia), Charlotte County
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Hopkins medical school falls to No. 3 in U.S. News rankings
Johns Hopkins University's medical school fell one spot to No. 3 in the nation, while its education school rose to No. 2, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings. The medical school ranked behind those of Harvard...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Drugs and Medicines, Science, Medical Specialization, Stanford University
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OPRF board candidates field questions at forum
Voters got a chance to question 10 of the 13 candidates running for four open seats on the Oak Park and River Forest High school board. The forum, held March 7 at Buzz Cafe in Oak Park, drew about 25 community members, who determined which questions the...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Elections
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Orange superintendent to be honored during Gov. Scott speech
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelBarbara Jenkins, superintendent of Orange County schools, is one of two educators who is to be metnioned by name in Gov. Rick Scott's annual state-of-the-state speech Tuesday, officials said. The other is a teacher from Tampa. Jenkins will be in... -
Divided over L.A. Unified
One nasty election later, there is no sign that the divisiveness in the Los Angeles Unified School District will abate. If anything, it looks likely to increase, with activists in United Teachers Los Angeles announcing that teachers will vote on a...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Examinations, Politics, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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The wrong fight over schools
Over the last century, American public education was built on an assumption that it would be apolitical. School districts would not be dragged into the mire of city elections. School board members would remain above the partisan fight. Candidates would be...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Labor Legislation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace
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Busted! Test-based teacher-evaluation program fingers the worst 8th grade math teacher in New York City (but don't worry, she's gone now)
Change of SubjectEducation Week tells us about Carolyn Abbott: Her score on the Teacher Data Report, the New York City Department of Education’s effort to isolate a teacher’s contribution to her students’ performance on New York State’s math and... -
Teacher evaluations: Seminole fears new VAM plan will hurt good teachers, principals and lead unfairly to lost jobs
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelIn case you missed it… Seminole County school administrators have crunched local data and fear the state's proposed VAM scoring plan will lead many teachers to get bad reviews next year. The Florida Department of Education is hammering out a... -
Senate president says teacher evaluation plan isn’t working, AP reports
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelFlorida's new teacher evaluation plan isn't working well and should be slowed down until schools have time to implement it well, Senate President Don Gaetz said in an interview with the Associated Press. Gaetz said the system is too complicated and... -
'Let's quit really making it difficult for them to do their jobs'
PIERRE - In November, South Dakota voters rejected a sweeping package of changes that had been passed by Republican legislators and the governor for K-12 schools. When one of those pieces was attempted again Thursday, a legislative committee respected...Tags: Watertown, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Rocky Hill Superintendent Seeks 4.7% Increase In School Budget
The Hartford CourantSuperintendent Mark F. Zito has recommended that school spending increase $1.4 million next year, or 4.75 percent. Zito outlined his $31.6 million budget, his first since coming to the district in July, at a meeting of the board of education's finance...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Rocky Hill, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Science and Technology, Technology
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City school board revokes contracts of several schools
The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday night to not renew the contracts of several charter and other independently run schools — but deferred making decisions about whether most of them would close. In January, city schools CEO Andrés Alonso...
Tags: Towson University, Virginia Tech, Johns Hopkins University, Carl Stokes, Financial Aid
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