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The Choice Blog: The Next Kevin Brownlow Drafts Her Summer Plans

Education News from NY Times - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 3:25pm
In her final post, Candice Childress, a high school senior in Las Vegas, discusses her goal for a “subtle shift in concern, one that gives Dana Andrews his cultural due and highlights how William Holden came to define a brutal blonde American masculinity.”    

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Calif. high-school students visit traveling memorial to learn Vietnam War history

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
Woodland High School teachers Erica Chung and Mike Owens organized a recent field trip to the traveling replica of the Vietna -More
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Ind. middle-school students become famous figures for wax museum

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
A wax museum project at Wheeler Middle School in Crown Point, Ind., has enabled students to research, write papers and portra -More
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When should students in England learn about personal finance?

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
England's Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans for students in secondary school to learn about finance, but t -More
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Teachers share what they know about the power of the tweet

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
The power of technology and the Internet are helping teachers develop personal learning networks, writes Tom Murray, director -More
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4 ideas for affordable, summertime professional development

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
The summer months are an ideal time to cultivate a professional learning network, take a webinar or learn about a new teachin -More
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Microsoft's switch from Windows XP challenges K-12 schools

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
Education-technology directors have been anticipating that Microsoft would move on from its popular Windows XP operating syst -More
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Immigrant students in Montreal display family objects to help share history

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
A group of students who have come to Montreal from other countries helped teach history to their new community by sharing per -More
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High-school students in Ottawa, Ontario, think globally

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
Students who are part of an Ottawa, Ontario, high school's Impact Club have raised enough money through the Free the Children -More
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There's still time to submit an award nomination

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
NCSS is accepting nominations and applications for our awards and grant programs including Teacher of the Year, Award for Glo -More
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NCSS summer professional development workshops

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
NCSS has an exciting lineup of professional development workshops scheduled for this summer!  -More

$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

NCSS Smartbrief - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 1:39pm
Agnes de Mille,American dancer and choreographer -More
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The Learning Network Blog: Found Poem Favorite | ‘The Young, Toiling Underground’

Education News from NY Times - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 12:34pm
The second of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

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Duncan: More Hispanic children need to enroll in preschool

Education News from Washington Post - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:57am

Record numbers of Hispanic students are staying in high school, graduating and enrolling in college, but they lag behind other groups in preschool attendance, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday morning.

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The Choice Blog: Let’s Hope College Doesn’t Go According to Plan

Education News from NY Times - Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:46am
My list of priorities as a freshman will remain open, because as I take ownership of the next four years of my life at Duke University, I expect the unexpected.    

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