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Buoyed by a local tax, the Texas city aims to open an unusual and ambitious public preschool program in August.

Education Week Commentary editors look at academic, demographic, and other trends since the landmark report was released 30 years ago.

Have you ever been a bystander when somebody has gotten hurt, either physically or verbally? What did you do? Why did you make that decision?    

US - PA - Philadelphia, Job Summary: The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to fill up to three tenured or tenure track faculty positions (open rank) in the area of digital medi

US - MD - Lutherville-Timonium, Position Summary: The primary responsibilities of this position include all of the following: teaching a wide variety of courses in Criminal Justice; academic advising and mentoring inside and outsi

US - MD - Lutherville-Timonium, Position Summary: Under the general supervision of the Head Tennis Coach, the Assistant Tennis Coach provides support and assistance of the intercollegiate tennis program (men and women), but is not

US - MD - Lutherville-Timonium, Position Summary: The responsibilities for this position will include some or all of the following: teaching, student advising, service and cooperative extension and administrative responsibilities.

The newly named 2013 National Teacher of the Year, who is visiting with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday with other award-winning teachers, is not a big fan of all of Obama's education policy initiatives and believes that some reformers are mischaracterizing America's public schools.

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Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in New Delhi, has decided to attend Cornell University this fall because of its financial aid package and computer science program.    

US - MN - Duluth, Duties/Responsibilities: Position currently entails teaching five three-credit Cultural Entrepreneurship core content courses per year, advising, research and professional/university service in this

US - MN - Saint Cloud, Responsibilities:Vacancies at SCSU are contingent on university budgets and funding.The mission of the SCSU Center for Economic Education is to help develop a well informed and economically literate

(Correction: Nan Rich is the former Florida Democratic Senate leader, not the current one, as an earlier version said.)

An earlier version You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about the controversial "parent trigger" legislation now before the Florida Legislature by looking at who is for it and who is against it.

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What is the “cinnamon challenge,” and why is it dangerous?    

Can you choose the best synonym for “ethereal,” as it is used in the article?    

Parents and students may not know this, but all of the questions kids have to answer on standardized tests don't actually count. Why? Here to explain is Fred Smith, a testing specialist and consultant, retired as an administrative analyst for the New York City public schools. He is a consultant on testing, educational research and other statistics related to city government, and a member of Change the Stakes, a parent advocacy group. This appeared on the SchoolBook website. In this piece, Smith is talking about the new standardized tests that New York students are now taking which are aligned with the Common Core State Standards and that officials warned will be harder than the old standardized tests used for accountability purposes.

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