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NSF's Peer-Review Process on GOP Radar
Fairfax County School Board delays review of renovations process
The Fairfax County School Board decided Monday to postpone a review of the district’s criteria for school renovations.
The board opted to delay the review of the so-called renovations queue until November, after the new superintendent, Karen Garza, begins her tenure.
Read full article >>Pr. George’s official tapped as chief of staff for Montgomery schools superintendent
Andrew Zuckerman will serve as Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr’s new chief of staff starting June 17.
Zuckerman is an associate superintendent in Prince George’s County public schools and will replace Brian Edwards. Edwards has been chief of staff since October 2007, but added duties overseeing the school system’s communications department when the chief communications person left in 2010.
Read full article >>Prince George’s NAACP supports school governance plan
Prince George’s County NAACP officials said Tuesday that they support County Executive Rushern L. Baker’s school takeover plan and will not work with opponents to block the measure from taking effect next month.
Read full article >>Catholic U. gets $4 million pledge for nursing scholarships
Catholic University announced Tuesday that a charitable foundation has pledged $4 million to the university’s school of nursing to fund scholarships for students in financial need.
The donation comes from the Bedford Falls Foundation Charitable Trust, a foundation established by William E. Conway Jr., co-chief executive officer and managing director of the Carlyle Group, and his wife, Joanne.
Read full article >>Part-time Anthropology Instructor - Introduction to Latino Cultures | Tufts University
Montgomery announces ‘Innovation Schools’ to pilot program for improving student achievement
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr on Tuesday announced the first Montgomery County “Innovation Schools” to pilot an initiative for improving student achievement.
The following were designated as Innovation Schools:
Read full article >>Gary D. Chapman Chair of Mariage and Family | Moody Bible Institute
New York high school changing Redskins nickname
A New York high school in Cooperstown -- home of the National Baseball Hall of Home -- is changing its sports nickname from the Redskins to the Hawkeyes. As a result, the Oneida Indian Nation is giving the school $10,000 to buy new jerseys.
Incumbent James Lander wins Democratic endorsement for Arlington School Board
Incumbent James Lander won the Democratic endorsement for the Arlington School Board in a very close primary campaign.
Lander beat out economist and children’s book author Barbara Kanninen, by 47 votes in a two-day caucus that ended Saturday.
Read full article >>D.C. Council education committee flexes its muscles on school boundaries
The D.C. Council’s education committee stepped into a looming fight over school boundaries last week when it voted unanimously to ensure that parents get at least a year’s notice before boundary changes take effect.
Read full article >>Senate Rejects Attempt to Kill La. Science Act
Head Start Centers Feeling 'Sequester' Pain
U-Va. MOOC finds high attrition, high satisfaction
Ordinarily, a professor would worry if only one out of every 10 students passed a class. But University of Virginia historian Philip Zelikow seems enormously pleased with such results from the course he just finished teaching on the history of the modern world.
Read full article >>HILT Research Fellow | Harvard University
Pay Dispute Heats Up at N.Y.U.’s Florence Campus
Director of Foundation Relations | University of Oregon
Fourth-grade creationist science quiz: Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago -- False
(See Part 2 below)
The following fourth grade science quiz for a unit called "Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel" has been making the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet, and it turns out it is real.
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