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Global Health: Universities Get Middling Grades in Helping Poor

Education News from NY Times - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 3:56pm
Prominent American and Canadian research universities earned mostly C’s on the first report card assessing how much their laboratories benefit the world’s poor.
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The Learning Network Blog: Fill-In | Paris Employs a Few Black Sheep to Tend, and Eat, a City Field

Education News from NY Times - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:49pm
Fill in the blanks in the first 12 paragraphs of the article “Paris Employs a Few Black Sheep to Tend, and Eat, a City Field” by Scott Sayare.

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The Choice Blog: Hoping for One More ‘Yes’ Before High School Ends

Education News from NY Times - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:18pm
Will Walker, a high school senior in Ohio, has been accepted to Williams College, but is uncertain about who will accompany him to prom.

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N.C. teacher's battlefield helps teach Civil War lessons

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Eric Marshall's fifth-grade students at London Elementary in Walnut Cove, N.C., recently spent three days experiencing some o -More
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Projects teach N.M. sixth-graders about energy conservation

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Sixth-graders at Ortiz Middle School in Santa Fe, N.M., learned about energy conservation through hands-on projects in scienc -More
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Go Green Initiative sparks conservation actions by Va. students

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
More than 7,000 elementary-school students in Manassas, Va., are getting much more than classroom lectures on the benefits of -More
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Utah attorney general asked to rule on release of teachers' data

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Utah's Office of Education is asking the state's attorney general to decide whether schools should publish individual teacher -More
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How education IT can support teachers, students

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
In this commentary, Bryan M.  -More
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How to conduct a research project with limited computer time

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Using the hooks of reality television and social media, middle-grades librarian Gwyneth Jones writes in this blog post about  -More
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Fla. high-school students award grants to local charities

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Florida's Harmony High School has a new student group focused on charitable giving.  -More
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Pa. fourth-graders boost reading skills with college students' help

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Education majors at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania are serving as volunteer reading tutors for elementary-school student -More
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Link social studies standards with the Common Core State Standards

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
"Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Com -More
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NCSS awards

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
NCSS is accepting nominations and applications for the following awards and grants: Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the -More

$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
TEP Charter School

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If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

NCSS Smartbrief - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 2:11pm
Louis Brandeis,U.S. Supreme Court justice -More
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Montgomery County Council wants more counselors, other support staff in schools

Education News from Washington Post - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 1:55pm

Members of the Montgomery County Council , concerned about the student achievement gap, focused Monday on how to ensure that the number of non-teaching public school staff keeps pace with rising student enrollment during budget talks with the Board of Education.

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