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US - CA - Palo Alto, Social Science Research AssociateThe Suppes Brain Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, is seeking a Social Science Research Associate for the brain research group. Responsibilities:

US - VA - Lexington, Department: Business AdministrationPosition Summary:The Department of Business Administration in the Williams School of Commerce, Economics & Politics at Washington and Lee University invites app

US - CA - La Jolla, University of California San DiegoTemporary Lecturer (10-564)The Anthropology Department (http://anthro.ucsd.edu) at the University of California, San Diego is committed to building an excellent and

How's this for a trick? Jeb Bush's "Chiefs for Change," a group of former and current state education superintendents, have attacked American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for something she didn't say -- without even mentioning her name!

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Do you use Urban Dictionary? How much slang do you use in general, and how much of the latest slang do you tend to adopt?    

Can you calculate the amount of sales cellphone companies made per hour in 2012?    

An annual national survey of school curriculum concludes that there is a "large gap" between how high school teachers perceive their graduating students' readiness for college and what professors expect freshmen to know.

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A CNN video:

In this CNN story, second-grade teacher Tammy Glasgow talks about the Oklahoma tornado that demolished her school, Briarwood Elementary. Nobody died in the school, thanks to the efforts of the teachers. The story says in part:

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

Parents say the Chicago Board of Education’s plan to shut 53 elementary schools is uprooting the personal and academic lifelines of the city’s neediest communities.    

The administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has consented to replace light fixtures containing the toxic substance in hundreds of schools by 2016, rather than 2021.    

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A higher education consulting firm had a blunt message for the University of Virginia’s governing board Tuesday: Despite the university’s vaunted stature as a “public Ivy,” school and state leaders have been complacent in the past 15 years and U-Va. is now falling behind many of its competitors.

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US - ID - Hailey, QUALIFICATIONS: Possess a baccalaureate or higher degree.  Hold a valid Idaho Exceptional Child Certificate endorsed for Generalist K-12.  Highly Qualified status in Elementary Core Con

Even though no state has yet adopted the standards, some teachers have already scrapped old lessons and instructional styles to embrace new ones.

The blueprint for the standards writers, the framework provides a reader-friendly accompaniment to the "technical document."