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Chancellor Kaya Henderson is seeking to merge a long-struggling Southeast Washington elementary school with a high-performing charter school, creating what she describes as a first-of-its-kind partnership between the two types of schools.

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Revelations about shared quiz answers, unearned grades and bribes prompted changes in the way an English course at the college in Manhattan is run.    

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Prince William County high school students can look forward to fewer tests next year, as school officials have eliminated mandatory midterm exams.

The county’s high school principals unanimously signed on to a one-year pilot program that will free teachers from administering required semester exams in January and give them more time to prepare for end-of-year tests.

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Have you heard about the two 7-year-old boys who were suspended from their Suffolk County, Va. school for pointing pencils at each other while making shooting sounds? One boy was pretending to be a Marine and the other a bad guy.

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Fairfax County schools Superintendent Jack D. Dale underwent emergency heart surgery Tuesday evening after he suffered an aortic aneurysm at work, and it is possible he will not return to his job before his planned retirement this summer, according to school officials.

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Martha's Vineyard, Mass., social studies teachers Elaine Weintraub and Brian Scott recently led a group of high-school sophom -More- 

Schools nationwide are adding hours to their calendars, in part, to help restore time taken away from social studies, science -More- 

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A majority of students in grades K-12 want to use mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops in the classroom, a -More- 

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