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Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver'
Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79.
The subject of the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver,"...Tags: West Virginia, Bolivia, National or Ethnic Minorities, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles
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McKinley Elementary students prepare for standardized test in fun fashion
Staff WriterIn an effort to encourage and excite its students for the state standardized test, McKinley Elementary School held its fifth annual Red Carpet Gala here Friday. The gala serves as an opportunity for the school to recognize its students who scored...Tags: Sports, Students, Baseball, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations
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The big schools
Here's a look at major schools that offer Master of Business Administration programs in the Chicago area. Many schools give students a choice of part-time (including evening and weekend options), flexible, full-time, accelerated, dual-degree,...
Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago, Science, Students, Colleges and Universities, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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Letters: Teaching and tests
Re "Gates' warning on test scores," Editorial, April 11 Bill Gates has figured out what those of us in education have known all along: Standardized tests are pretty good at identifying students' academic strengths and weaknesses, one of them being test-...
Tags: Teachers, Academic Progress, Bill Gates, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning
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Principals union wants Alonso to return bonuses in light of cheating investigations
The Baltimore principals union is calling for schools CEO Andrés Alonso to pay back thousands of dollars in bonuses he received in years that schools were later found to have cheated on state tests. The request comes as a contract, released through a...
Tags: Teachers, Economy, Business and Finance, Freedom of Information Laws, Teaching and Learning, Finance
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Multiple options for Chicago-area applicants
Here is a look at major schools that offer Master of Business Administration programs in Chicago or the Chicago area.
Many schools give students a choice of part-time (including evening and weekend options), flexible, full-time, accelerated, dual-degree,...Tags: Mexico, Fannie Mae, W.W. Grainger, Inc., Northern Illinois University, Corporate Officers
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Find program that fits your dream
The Chicago area has numerous schools with MBA programs, including two — University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management — whose business schools continue to rank among the best in...Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago, Politics, Students, Colleges and Universities, Environmental Issues
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Gates' warning on test scores
A recent op-ed article in the Washington Post warned against overusing students' standardized test scores in evaluating how well teachers are doing their jobs. There would be no surprise about that — if it had been penned by the leader of a teachers...
Tags: Teachers, Students, Bill Gates, The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning
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Movement growing to opt out of standardized tests
Daily American Staff WriterAs the annual standardized tests are being administered in Pennsylvania schools starting this week, a movement is growing among parents to opt out of the tests. North Star Superintendent Shawn Kovac said the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests...Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Religion and Belief, Students, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning
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The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Teachers, Students, Politics, University of California, Berkeley, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Educator backs state's Keystone Exams
Professional word merchants can get a little insecure when some unjournalist comes along and does a better job of putting passages together. It happens to me all too often. I'll write a column filled with dazzling piquancy and logic, and along comes...Tags: Teachers, Students, Academic Progress, Kutztown, Teaching and Learning
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Law could mean sharp drop in Bright Futures awards
New state rules will slash the number of Broward County students eligible for Bright Futures scholarships, according to an analysis by the University of South Florida in Tampa. The Legislature in 2011 toughened critieria so that students entering...
Tags: University of Florida, Boca Raton, Students, Florida Atlantic University, Coral Springs
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