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Kim O'Neil from Liverpool, N.Y., has been elected vice-president of National Council for the Social Studies.  -More- 

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The Virginia School Boards Association announced that staff member Gina Patterson will become the organization’s executive director beginning Jan. 1, 2014.

Patterson, who is currently serving as the deputy executive director, will succeed Barbara Coyle, who is retiring as executive director at the end of this year.

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Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) will hold a telephone town hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss his plan to takeover the county school system.

Baker wants to have direct control over the school superintendent and the system’s $1.7 billion budget, a move that would significantly limit the role of the county Board of Education.

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How does a parent know when an unhappy seventh grader needs a change, and when she should stay put and learn to endure?

Gov. Bob McDonnell plans amendments to a bill that would allow a new statewide school division to take over struggling schools.

Sen. Rand Paul, a rising star in the Republican Party, is pushing for a federal voucher program that sounds similar to one advanced by Mitt Romney when he was running for president.

Paul, from Kentucky, co-sponsored an amendment to Senate budget legislation with Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee who was once secretary of education. The "school choice" amendment calls for using $14.5 billion in current Title 1 funds, which are targeted to students who attend high-poverty schools, to cover 11 million students, at $1,300 per child. The money would follow a student at any accredited public or private student a family chooses.

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Ideas for teaching 10 seasonal subjects, from poetry and baseball to Earth Day and April Fool’s, all via Times articles, essays, and multimedia. Enjoy!

Since many schools are on break, this is the only Student Opinion question we’ll pose this week. Use it with our related feature, 12 Ways to Teach About Spring.

It's safe to say that a few weeks ago not many people outside South Florida had heard about Florida Gulf Coast University. Now, thanks to the school's basketball team and its historic forward march in March Madness, it's the new "it" school, at least for the moment. What exactly is it? And where is it?

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The Match Teacher Residency is one of a small number of programs that train aspiring teachers for the classroom through practice.