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A veteran teacher uses the last weeks of the school year to bolster her students' literacy skills before spring tests.

Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based company, is joining with 10 universities and postsecondary systems to create new "massive open online courses."

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems are seen as a prod to professionalize the preschool field.

Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here are our science, health, math and technology-related lesson plans for the 2012-13 school year.    

The chairman of the board of trustees says Howard University is in strong shape. The vice chairwoman of the board suggests the university is in jeopardy of closure within three years without a swift and major course correction.

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The District’s state superintendent of education, Hosanna Mahaley Jones, is stepping down to help her husband recover from a heart attack.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) announced Mahaley Jones’s departure Tuesday.

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About 100 students and parents from Silver Spring International Middle School rallied Tuesday morning in hopes of preventing scheduling changes they say could hurt student achievement.

The school is planning to go from an eight-period to a seven-period schedule starting the 2014-15 academic year.

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Only after fully and publicly owning my disability have I been able to move past it and realize that I am so much more than just that boy whose walk was once confused with a drunk’s.    

A coalition of educators, researchers, parents, activists and elected officials issued what signees are calling an "Education Declaration" on Tuesday that lists seven key principles on which genuine school reform should be guided for the 21st century and starts from the premise that public education is "a public good."

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“Since the dawn of recorded time, plainly speaking” by Alyssa, 15, from Culver City, Calif., is the eleventh of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Robert C. Russell, a former Fairfax County music teacher and principal who served as the superintendent of Fairfax City public schools from 1984 to 1995, died June 2 in Elkins, W.Va. He was 83. Fairfax City Public Schools announced the death in a statement.

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A state-imposed teacher-evaluation system rolls out in three months, giving teachers and principals limited time to adapt.

US - NJ - Princeton, Position Summary: The Department of History at Princeton University has an occasional need for part-time lecturers to teach precepts (sections) in areas such as the history of North and South America

US - CA - Pasadena, Talent Acquisition Manager (Development & Institute Relations)California Institute of TechnologyClosing Date: Open Until FilledJob SummaryThe mission of the California Institute of Technology is