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K.C. closing nearly half its schools
The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half the district’s schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy
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Math and English classes could be standardized
Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tes...
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SCHOOL BRIEFS
Session focuses on kindergarten
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Teachers join National Board training
DURHAM — The Durham school board praised a lengthy report it received Monday afternoon about teacher training
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DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
The following briefs highlight events and activities planned for Durham Public Schools
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
NCCU department to hold summit
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Visiting your kid abroad a real education
For all the good first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative will do motivating the private sector, there is hard work ahead as Congress takes up reauthorization of...
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EarlyGraduation.JPG IDAHO PLAN WOULD PAY KIDS TO GRADUATE EARLY
BOISE , Idaho — Every high school has at least a handful of them, gifted students who blow through Faulkner as if it were a comic book, teenagers who catch on to calculus as if it were chec...
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Jessia Connelly, an eighth-grader at Orange Charter School, won the Regional Spelling Bee held Saturday at Duke University. Spelling bee crowns its queen
Jessia Connelly, an eighth-grader from Orange Charter School, won the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee Saturday at sponsor Duke University’s Page Auditorium
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Louisa Perry-Farr, 13 (left), studies science while her sister Thea Perry-Farr, 10, studies logic in the dining room of their home in Lexington, Ky., on Feb. 26. Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons
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