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School systems are taking greater precautions to secure schools against tragedy, but parents and guardians are viewed as potential perpetrators, writes Edwin C. Darden.

Nine groups seeking to open new charter schools in the District will present their ideas at a D.C. Public Charter School Board hearing Monday.

The hearing is a chance for charter board members to ask questions before voting to approve or deny each of the nine applications on May 20.

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The ancient and increasingly popular practice of mindfulness meditation has been used to manage stress, depression and even chronic pain. New research suggests it may also improve test scores.

Remember back in the olden days when kindergarteners used to be allowed to learn from playing? Now, in the age of the Common Core State Standards, 4 and 5 year olds are being required to do things such as write "Informative/Explanatory Reports" and identify topic sentences.

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Who was Pattycake?

Extreme weather? A cute baby animal? A meteor? Glaciers? An ugly or bizarre mammal, sea creature, plant or insect? Giant trees? The northern lights? An amazing rock formation? A frog failing to catch a dragonfly? Look at these photos, then tell us what you’ve seen.

US - IL - Evanston, Job Summary:About the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern UniversityThe Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is a premier institution for management education. Founded in

There has been a flood of news about charter schools recently, and in the following post, Jeff Bryant, a marketing and communications consultant for nonprofits, tries to make sense of it. Bryant is a marketing and creative strategist with nearly 30 years of experience the past 20 on his own as a freelance writer, consultant, and search engine marketing provider. He has also written extensively about public education policy. This post appeared on the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Bryant.

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US - MN - Minneapolis, Duties/Responsibilities: The department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature occasionally needs lecturers or teaching specialists to teach courses that cannot be staffed by regular faculty

Can you calculate how much more money coffee farmers would be paid by selling their crops through one system versus another?

Bill Ayers, a retired professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in no uncertain terms takes aim in this post at federal school policies that led to the Atlanta cheating scandal. Ayers, a radical activist during the 1960s and '70s, had the national spotlight thrown on him during the 2008 presidential campaign when right-wing commentators tried, incorrectly, to say he had a close relationship with then candidate Barack Obama. In any case, Ayers is a well-known Chicago educator who worked with mayor Richard Daley on school reform and who taught and did research for years at the university. He has written numerous articles and books on elementary education.

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Stanford University will team with a nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to develop an open-source Web platform for free online college courses.

The Stanford alliance with the nonprofit venture edX, announced early Wednesday, signaled a new twist in what has become a race to open up the highest levels of higher education to the world.

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Officers and a bomb-sniffing dog were on hand as the rifle association unveiled its plan to train and arm security guards at every school in the nation.

Harvard’s search of staff e-mail accounts went further than previously disclosed, administrators said Tuesday.

One of the teachers accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a student at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts had earned near-universal admiration and was nicknamed the “Czar.”

In a city marked by pockets of entrenched black poverty, some of the worst schools in Tennessee, taken over by the state, are in the midst of a radical experiment.