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Where are there pilot university programs that weave material from online classes into live instruction?    

Can you calculate the projected enrollment at a school 25 years from now if given the percentage it is expected to increase each year?    

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Mr. Starker was widely known through his more than 150 recordings, including one of Bach’s six suites for solo cello for which he won a Grammy Award in 1998.    

This word has appeared in one New York Times article in the past year.    

Misuse of attention deficit drugs has become a problem on campuses, and colleges are reconsidering how — and even if — their student health offices should try to diagnose A.D.H.D.    

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit that invests in education groups, is entering a partnership with Rethink Education that could result in millions more in financing.    

A government watchdog group says the Prince George’s County school system “crossed a line” when a schools official sent an e-mail late Monday that urged residents to join a petition drive that opposes the county’s new school governance structure.

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Students who were denied admission to their top-choice college should remember that achievement comes at many points in life, college admissions being only a small part of adult living.    

Fairfax County public schools administrators have proposed a boundary change that would move more than 350 students in the fall of 2014 to alleviate crowding issues at Fairfax High and Lanier Middle schools.

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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said educators needed a year to master a new curriculum before schools should be held accountable for results.    

For the second straight year, significant parent opposition to "parent trigger" legislation in Florida has led to defeat in the legislature despite powerful supporters, including former governor Jeb Bush.

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In this lesson students grapple with the same questions all of America has been asking in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Extension activities allow students to research issues raised in the story, from immigration and foreign policy to civil liberties, and propose their own policy solutions.