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The move to leave Semester Online, which offers undergraduate classes for credit, comes after faculty members expressed concerns.    

This word has appeared in 3,490 New York Times articles in the past year.    

School districts in Indiana, Oklahoma and Minnesota are rescheduling high-stakes proficiency tests because of technical problems involving the test administrators’ computer systems.    

Educators are harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in higher education: giving more students access to college, and helping them graduate on time.    

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) announced Wednesday that he will create a “Teacher Cabinet” of advisers to influence high-level decisions that affect public schools.

The teachers who will comprise most of the cabinet will be charged with developing recommendations for new ways to engage parents and close achievement gaps, and they will work on methods for improving the collaboration between public schools, colleges and workplaces.

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Here is the text of a speech (as prepared for delivery) that Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave this week to the American Educational Research Association, meeting in San Francisco.

Duncan addresses growing criticism of high-stakes standardized tests, among other subjects.

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The Carroll County School Board plans to end its partnership with the contractor that operates Virginia’s largest full-time statewide virtual school, effectively shutting down a program that serves more than 350 students.

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Students at two high schools in Hanover, N.J., used their genocide studies classes as the basis for schoolwide projects to ra -More-