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The Fairfax County School Board has officially approved veteran Texan educator Karen Garza to be the next superintendent, and Garza flew in to accept the new role in person.

Board members had voted last week to offer Garza the job, but Thursday’s unanimous decision made it official.

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PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — Many colleges struggle with high failure rates in large undergraduate courses. But the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and others have learned that bigger classes sometimes get better results, and at lower cost.

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Many students face a choice between a college that offers little financial aid but has a superior reputation or a less prestigious college that offers a merit scholarship.    

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Earth Day presents opportunities to teach about the environment, writes Matt Davis, an editorial assistant at Edutopia.  -More- 

Some educators are bracing for what is expected to be a major shift in teaching and learning under the Common Core State Stan -More- 

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Seattle Public Schools officials are looking for ways to add 30 minutes to the elementary-school day to make sure all subject -More- 

The Connecticut Board of Education has adopted more rigorous principles to guide teacher training in the state.  -More- 

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The number of school districts represented on at least one social network in the past two years has risen 44%, to 74% of dist -More- 

Students learn through failure and working collaboratively in the project-based, geopolitical World Peace Game, author and Gl -More- 

The Suffolk County, N.Y., Historical Society's exhibit about four nomadic tribes is pretty nomadic itself.  -More- 

The room blocks for the 2013 NCSS Annual Conference are now open for reservations.  -More- 

Connect with your NCSS member colleagues on Connected, the NCSS member networking site.  -More- 

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