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School districts should audit their communication plans and ensure they are appropriate for the 21st century, suggests Joel G -More- 

Students in Carol Hines' first-grade class at Farmersville Elementary School in Pennsylvania spent last year learning geograp -More- 

Archaeologists may have found the relatives of the medieval knight whose skeleton was found under a parking lot in Edinburgh, -More- 

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Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS) is a professional development program that trains social studies teachers in cur -More- 

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2013-2014 (Z-Term) Teaching Specialist or Lecturer: Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature
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Joseph Addison,British essayist, poet, playwright and politician -More- 

In this lesson, students research the digestive system in depth, and then create a detailed walk-through model to illustrate each compartment.    

Does what happened in 2008 in D.C. Public Schools still matter today? Here to answer the question is Sam Chaltain, a Washington D.C.-based education writer, a senior fellow at the Institute for Democratic Education in America, and a former member of Mayor Vincent Gray's transition team for education policy. He can be reached at schaltain@gmail.com. This piece also appeared on the SmartBlog on Education.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A new academic credential of unknown worth is circulating around the world, issued by affiliates of some of the most valuable brands in higher education.

These “certificates of mastery,” available for free to anyone with an Internet connection who passes an online course, come from BerkeleyX, MITx and HarvardX. Soon, there will be certificates from GeorgetownX.

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The Walton Family Foundation is giving $8 million to Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst to add to the scores of millions of dollars it hands out each year to support the public education reform agenda of Walton family members.

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The National Candidates Reply Date is here. Share how you made your college admission decision on The Choice.    

Federal officials should help create a coherent system of supports for research-based innovation in schools, Robert E. Slavin writes.

Muskegon Heights and Highland Park are testing private companies' skill at running troubled public school systems.

What message do you think this relationship, which “defined dating and domestic violence for the hip-hop generation,” sends to young people? Does that matter?    

The Common Core State Standards initiative was started with bipartisan support. But new and often nonsensical criticism from right-wing Republicans is making it seem as if the Core is a partisan issue, and, further, is clouding important and serious-minded criticism about the standards and their implementation.

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