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Prince William County high school students can look forward to fewer tests next year, as school officials have eliminated mandatory midterm exams.

The county’s high school principals unanimously signed on to a one-year pilot program that will free teachers from administering required semester exams in January and give them more time to prepare for end-of-year tests.

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Have you heard about the two 7-year-old boys who were suspended from their Suffolk County, Va. school for pointing pencils at each other while making shooting sounds? One boy was pretending to be a Marine and the other a bad guy.

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Fairfax County schools Superintendent Jack D. Dale underwent emergency heart surgery Tuesday evening after he suffered an aortic aneurysm at work, and it is possible he will not return to his job before his planned retirement this summer, according to school officials.

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Martha's Vineyard, Mass., social studies teachers Elaine Weintraub and Brian Scott recently led a group of high-school sophom -More- 

Schools nationwide are adding hours to their calendars, in part, to help restore time taken away from social studies, science -More- 

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As more states seek to raise the academic bar for incoming teachers, a growing number of educators and experts are questionin -More- 

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A majority of students in grades K-12 want to use mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops in the classroom, a -More- 

Educators in a Wisconsin school district say that technology changes so rapidly that there are few requirements in place for  -More- 

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Students at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Fla., worked this week on a gardening legacy project in honor of Teac -More- 

Students in Cabrillo High School's Academy of Law and Justice this year have become jurors in real criminal cases.  -More- 

The annual NCSS Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards, sponsored by Farmers Insurance, recognize exceptional classroom socia -More- 

NCSS is accepting nominations for the Award for Global Understanding Given in Honor of James M. Becker.  -More- 

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In this lesson, students learn about the mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees across the country, discuss possible causes and potential solutions, and participate in a citizen science project to census honeybees in their neighborhoods.