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The power of technology and the Internet are helping teachers develop personal learning networks, writes Tom Murray, director -More- 

The summer months are an ideal time to cultivate a professional learning network, take a webinar or learn about a new teachin -More- 

Education-technology directors have been anticipating that Microsoft would move on from its popular Windows XP operating syst -More- 

A group of students who have come to Montreal from other countries helped teach history to their new community by sharing per -More- 

Students who are part of an Ottawa, Ontario, high school's Impact Club have raised enough money through the Free the Children -More- 

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NCSS is accepting nominations and applications for our awards and grant programs including Teacher of the Year, Award for Glo -More- 

NCSS has an exciting lineup of professional development workshops scheduled for this summer!  -More- 

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Agnes de Mille,American dancer and choreographer -More- 

The second of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Record numbers of Hispanic students are staying in high school, graduating and enrolling in college, but they lag behind other groups in preschool attendance, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday morning.

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My list of priorities as a freshman will remain open, because as I take ownership of the next four years of my life at Duke University, I expect the unexpected.    

A Southeast Texas school district is appealing a court ruling that allowed high school cheerleaders to display at football games banners emblazoned with Bible verses.

If you follow the education policy debate at all, you know that critics are often called "defenders of the status quo" by people pushing market-based school reforms. Here is a piece about why it is actually the reforms that are preserving the status quo -- and what real reform would actually look like. It was written by Arthur H. Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His writing can be accessed at http://www.arthurcamins.com/.

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Do you know anyone who was injured or killed in a drunken driving accident?    

What kinds of microbes did scientists identify in the kitchens they studied?    

Can you calculate the highest number of saves that the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera has attained in a single season?