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Central Florida schools largely missing from rankings of "best high schools"
Sentinel School ZoneTwo separate national rankings of high schools in the past week have highlighted a few top performers in Central Florida -- but reflect little agreement on what the "best" schools are. A new list of "America's Best High Schools" by Newsweek and The...Tags: Winter Springs, Osceola County, Oviedo, Kissimmee, Arts and Culture
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ISTEP testing to proceed at 50% load
7:20 p.m. update -- We recieved the following update Tuesday night from the Indiana Department of Education: "Based upon assurances made by CTB McGraw Hill, the Indiana Department of Education is opening ISTEP+ testing tomorrow morning, Wednesday, May...
Tags: McGraw-Hill Incorporated, Education, Students, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Wethersfield Survey Asks Parents And Employees About Schools
The Hartford CourantThe school system wants to know what parents and employees think about everything from academics to the atmoshere in the schools. School officials emailed to employees and parents on Monday a survey with about 20 questions. The results will be used to...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Wethersfield
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With Franklin win, LAUSD sweeps Academic Decathlon season
Academic Decathlon teams from Los Angeles have won the state competition and, in a first, taken both first and second place at the national competition. Now, the season ends with one more distinction for L.A. Unified: Franklin High School has won a...
Tags: Decathlon, Science and Technology
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Teacher raises may kick in this year – not 2014
Florida’s teachers could get raises as soon as this summer under a revised budget agreement state lawmakers hammered out Wednesday. The change means school employees won’t have to wait until June 2014 for a pay hike, as legislative leaders...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Students, Palm Beach County
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Grade Inflation Undermining Universities
The Hartford CourantMisquoting William Shakespeare: "Now is the spring of our discontent." Indeed, even as the daffodils blossom and the songbirds sing, my students at the University of Connecticut are stressing out from their end-of-semester quest for high grades....Tags: Education, William Shakespeare, Health, Students, Princeton University
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Denise Hibbard taking over as New Trier's Winnetka campus principal
Two years ago, Denise Hibbard returned to her native Illinois after opening a high school in California and leading it to academic success. In July, Hibbard will replace longtime principal Timothy Dohrer at New Trier's Winnetka campus. She's been lauded...
Tags: Education, Students, Schools, DePaul University, High Schools
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U.S. News ranks Maine South among state's best schools — again
Getting recognized by a national publication as one of the best schools in the state is cause for celebration. But for Maine South, while it's still an honor, officials say it has become one that's almost expected. On April 23, U.S. News & World...
Tags: Human Interest
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Scott stops by to praise teachers, pitch raises on his 'victory tour'
Gov. Rick Scott praised Florida's public-school teachers Tuesday during a visit to Ocoee Middle School, one of five stops on his weeklong "victory tour" to celebrate teacher raises. "We've got great teachers in our state, and we should be very thankful,"...
Tags: Students, Government, Laws, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Penn HS named presidential scholar
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Penn student is one of only two Indiana high school seniors who have been named presidential scholars for this year. The U.S. Department of Education says the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars has selected Erika...
Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Education, Zionsville, Students, Schools
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Scott launches 'teacher raise' victory tour in Sunrise, West Palm Beach
Gov. Rick Scott launched a "victory tour" at South Florida schools Monday to applaud the $480 million approved by the Legislature for teacher raises. Flanked by Broward School Board members and Superintendent Robert Runcie at Piper High in Sunrise,...
Tags: Government, National Government, Politics, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Palm Beach County
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Statement from Andres Alonso on his resignation
Monday, May 6, 2013 Dear City Schools Partners and Friends, I am writing to you today to let you know that at the end of the current school year, I will retire and leave Baltimore City Public Schools and this great city to return to my home in New...
Tags: Andres Alonso
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