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Schools should make exercise 'core' subject, U.S. panel urges
Reuters* Few students get recommended daily hour of exercise * 44 percent of schools cut exercise for more reading, math By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical...Tags: Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Obesity
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School closings disappoint many aldermen
Tribune reportersAfter the Chicago School Board meeting Wednesday, many of the aldermen who argued unsuccessfully to keep schools in their wards open said they were disappointed with the process. Ald. Deborah Graham, 29th, said she went to testify at the school board...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Deborah Graham, Teaching and Learning, Local Government, Chicago City Hall
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Education Secretary Duncan gives 3 more states permission to ignore No Child Left Behind law
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans....Tags: U.S. Congress, Judges, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Hampshire
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READER SUBMITTED: Cheshire Student Named One Of 141 U.S. Presidential Scholars
StatewideU.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced May 14, the selection of Aneri Pattani of Cheshire, who attends Cheshire High School in Cheshire, as a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Pattani is one of 141 outstanding American high school seniors that...Tags: White House, Cheshire, Teaching and Learning, Students, Human Interest
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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: Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress, Students, U.S. Department of Education
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US education chief Duncan, Gov. Snyder read to preschoolers during visit to Detroit, Ypsilanti
DETROIT (AP) — Pre-kindergartners at a Detroit school have had a visit from President Obama's education secretary and Gov. Rick Snyder, who read to them from the book "The Rainbow Fish." Secretary Arne Duncan and Snyder also talked with fifth...Tags: Education, Executive Branch, Rick Snyder, The Detroit News, Public Schools
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
EDUCATION SECRETARY-DETROIT US education secretary, governor visit 3 schools DETROIT (AP) — President Obama's education secretary will be in Detroit on Monday for a town hall meeting on education issues and visits to three area schools. The...Tags: Rick Snyder, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Detroit News, Fires, Colleges and Universities
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
Tags: Notre Dame of Maryland University, Teaching and Learning, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Colleges and Universities, Dartmouth College
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Alonso's final report card
The reverberations from the departure of Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso will be felt nationally as well as locally. Six years ago, I was a member of the Baltimore school board that hired him. Our risky vision was to try to recruit a game-changer...
Tags: Teachers, Education, Teaching and Learning, Corporate Officers, Michelle Rhee
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Here is the latest Michigan news from The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — President Obama's education secretary will be in Detroit today for a town hall meeting on education issues. He will also visit three area schools. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Governor Rick Snyder will visit a fifth-grade class...Tags: Charter Schools, Rick Snyder, Barack Obama, Schools
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Confusion about Common Core
The legislature fiddles while educators wait. That's one way to look at the Indiana General Assembly's decision to "pause" implementing Common Core standards until a study and public hearings are completed. These are the standards the Indiana State...Tags: Teachers, Education, Executive Branch, Teaching and Learning, Government
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In testing-dominated system, real learning comes outside the classroom
It's Teacher Appreciation Week, the standardized testing season has mostly ended in the public schools this year — and what have we learned? Parents have learned that their first-graders are developing test anxiety. Teachers have learned that they...
Tags: Teachers, Loyola University Maryland, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Culture
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