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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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Where are there pilot university programs that weave material from online classes into live instruction?    

Can you calculate the projected enrollment at a school 25 years from now if given the percentage it is expected to increase each year?    

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Mr. Starker was widely known through his more than 150 recordings, including one of Bach’s six suites for solo cello for which he won a Grammy Award in 1998.    

This word has appeared in one New York Times article in the past year.    

Misuse of attention deficit drugs has become a problem on campuses, and colleges are reconsidering how — and even if — their student health offices should try to diagnose A.D.H.D.    

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit that invests in education groups, is entering a partnership with Rethink Education that could result in millions more in financing.    

A government watchdog group says the Prince George’s County school system “crossed a line” when a schools official sent an e-mail late Monday that urged residents to join a petition drive that opposes the county’s new school governance structure.

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Students who were denied admission to their top-choice college should remember that achievement comes at many points in life, college admissions being only a small part of adult living.    

Fairfax County public schools administrators have proposed a boundary change that would move more than 350 students in the fall of 2014 to alleviate crowding issues at Fairfax High and Lanier Middle schools.

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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said educators needed a year to master a new curriculum before schools should be held accountable for results.    

For the second straight year, significant parent opposition to "parent trigger" legislation in Florida has led to defeat in the legislature despite powerful supporters, including former governor Jeb Bush.

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