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Wilson High School’s principal, who told parents that students could lose their eligibility to play school sports if they failed to show up for the District’s annual standardized testing, has rescinded the policy.

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They had to quickly spout knowledge about Punnett squares, diffractive scattering, Gila monsters and vectors. They also had to name the parts of a cell where RNA is made, then calculate the product of 84 and 96.

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A new report released Monday shows that funding for preschool programs across the country fell by an unprecedented $500 million in the 2011-12 school year as enrollment stalled and more programs saw a drop in quality than improvement.

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School officials and other townspeople in Rochelle, Ga., are defending a whites-only prom after social media propelled the news of a separate, integrated prom.

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Current efforts to improve the evaluation process will prove futile without input from classroom teachers, write Ross Wiener and Kasia Lundy.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the federal government should not have reduced its funding to South Carolina before allowing an appeal, and that the state should get its money back until U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes a final decision.

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Rather than recommend majors of the future, here are four activities to help develop the skills necessary to succeed in the work force of tomorrow. If you focus on these activities, the majors won’t matter as much.    

A petition in support of "parent trigger" legislation in Florida spearheaded by StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, apparently has numerous signatures on it from people who say they didn't sign it.

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Who challenged a tradition in how proms had been conducted in a rural Georgia county?    

Can you calculate a specific measurement of a boxing ring?    

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State funding for preschool across the country dropped last school year after a decade of growth, tapping the brakes on the quality and reach of programs as President Obama has called for a massive expansion of early childhood education, according to a national survey scheduled for release Monday.

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