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In a move that could open online classes to 1.25 million students at public institutions, a California company is forming partnerships with 10 large state university systems.    

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way in the nation's capital with something new: For the first time in the event's 86-year-old year history, there is a vocabulary component to the competition.That means finalists will not only have to spell words like "guetapens" -- which was the winning word in last year's national event -- but also know what it means (ambush, snare, trap).

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The tenuous state of the economy is a major reason for the earlier arrival of back-to-school shopping campaigns.    

Speaking at Cooper Union’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg urged the new alumni to give back to their school.    

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III apologized Tuesday for surprising residents and state lawmakers with his plan to take over the county’s struggling schools but said he does not regret offering the proposal.

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In her final post, Candice Childress, a high school senior in Las Vegas, discusses her goal for a “subtle shift in concern, one that gives Dana Andrews his cultural due and highlights how William Holden came to define a brutal blonde American masculinity.”    

Woodland High School teachers Erica Chung and Mike Owens organized a recent field trip to the traveling replica of the Vietna -More- 

A wax museum project at Wheeler Middle School in Crown Point, Ind., has enabled students to research, write papers and portra -More- 

England's Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans for students in secondary school to learn about finance, but t -More- 

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The power of technology and the Internet are helping teachers develop personal learning networks, writes Tom Murray, director -More- 

The summer months are an ideal time to cultivate a professional learning network, take a webinar or learn about a new teachin -More- 

Education-technology directors have been anticipating that Microsoft would move on from its popular Windows XP operating syst -More-