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Seven Florida teachers have brought a federal lawsuit to protest job evaluation policies that tether individual performance ratings to the test scores of students who are not even in their classes.    

This word has appeared in 252 New York Times articles in the past year.    

College acceptance letters are increasingly telling applicants to show up at midyear, an economic benefit for the colleges but a shock to the students.    

Teachers in Florida filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, claiming the state’s new teacher evaluation system is unfair because it partly rates their job performance on test scores of students they don’t know and subjects they don’t teach.

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Why do you think the Boston police commissioner declined to call the blasts a terrorist attack during his late-afternoon news conference?    

(Update: BU identifies student killed at marathon)

Boston University officials have identified one of the three people killed in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon as a graduate student from China attending the school. Another BU grad student was injured and remained at a Boston hospital.

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Can evaluation rubrics capture the qualities that make some teachers extraordinary, asks Lorraine Bellon Cella.

The president’s fiscal year 2014 spending plan highlights his education priorities, but faces bipartisan hurdles in Congress.

In both his State of the Union speech and now his budget proposal, President Obama has emphasized the importance of redesigning high schools.

A set of "publishers' criteria" for the common-core standards for high school and a revised set for elementary school are released.

With new communications technology, school boards are confounded by how to conduct business and conform to open-meetings and -records laws.

In this lesson, students learn about the scope of recent cyberattacks and what is being done to counter such threats. Then they consider the broader practical and ethical consequences of preparing for cyberwar.    

In the hours after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and injuring more than 170, college administrators across the country frantically rushed to check the whereabouts of students and staff at the race. Several college newspapers kept running lists of participants and spectators with ties to their schools who had been safely located.

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