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The proposal includes a 3.0 GPA for applicants and evidence that programs' graduates make an impact in their K-12 classrooms.

When Barack Obama was elected president four years ago, many people in the education world had hoped he would pick as his education secretary Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor who was the head of his first education transition team and who is an expert on educational equity. Pushed by pro-school choice forces to pass over her, Obama selected Arne Duncan, who has presided over a school reform agenda with standardized test-based accountability as its focus. Issues of equity and the role of poverty in student achievement not only got short shrift, but it became popular among school reformers to say that people who insisted that poverty could not be ignored were merely providing excuses for bad teachers.

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North Dakota becomes the fifth state where the two unions have united, and Wisconsin is moving toward that goal.

These days, Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh, a law firm in Atlanta, hires only people with a bachelor’s degree — no exceptions. And it is far from alone.

What is wrong with the following tweet from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the state education agency for the District of Columbia?

It was tweeted last Friday, and the problem was just raised by Erich Martel, a retired D.C. high school history teacher.

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Why do the people who witnessed the explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia consider themselves lucky?

Cozy. Justin Hamilton, who recently left the U.S. Department of Education, where he served as press secretary for Secretary Arne Duncan, has gone to work for Amplify, the online education company owned by Rupert Murdoch and run by Joel Klein.

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Students from Poolesville High School took second and third place in a national design competition aimed at helping individuals with developmental disabilities.

The second-place team from Poolesville took home $3,000 for a device to help employees at the Scott Key Center in Frederick count and arrange tea packets into boxes while the third-place team received $1,000 for their cradle made out of PVC pipe. The cradle is designed to keep rain barrels from rolling around as employees wash them.

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Brian Donlon took notes in a fat three-ring binder, a veteran teacher critiquing the work of a less experienced peer. He learned the young teacher gets visibly frazzled during instruction and sometimes gives students answers to questions without encouraging them to think on their own.

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Students at Hans Christensen Middle School in Menifee, Calif., recently came together in honor of Black History Month.  -More- 

Washington state's Central Valley School District in Spokane Valley will pilot nearly 20 new books as part of a comprehensive -More- 

For more than 20 years, history teacher Tom Clark has worked with his students to capture the personal stories of veterans an -More- 

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Among the new resources emerging for teachers in the transition to the Common Core State Standards is a website from Scholast -More- 

Educators say students who use iPads are able to look up unfamiliar words as they are reading, receive feedback from teachers -More- 

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies has started a program to encourage research, discovery and creative c -More- 

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Students in The Future Business Leaders of America club at Cupertino High School in California are each committing 90 hours v -More- 

The National Academy of Sciences has released a report to evaluate the future supply of individuals with expertise in fields  -More-