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As Mississippi lawmakers debate a bill requiring third-graders to read at grade level or face retention, three elementary sch -More- 

A Florida school district is spending $10,500 to implement the Board Docs program and technology that allows it to post schoo -More- 

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Using the Industrial Revolution as inspiration, students at Kent Innovation High School, in Grand Rapids, Mich., have embarke -More- 

Some little-known facts about Texas history, such as the use of camels to pull wagons in the 19th century, were among the fea -More- 

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The review period for NCSS Annual Conference session proposals has begun. Reviews are due March 24.  -More- 

NCSS members, please remember to vote in the 2013 Board of Directors Election. Individuals who were NCSS members as of Dec.  -More- 

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Colorado Christian University

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Texas State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, who spoke at the 2013 Iditarod Winter Conference for Educators in  -More- 

Changes to New York's social studies curriculum proposed by the Board of Regents has prompted some teachers to speak out onli -More- 

The work does not end after states receive waivers from portions of No Child Left Behind.  -More- 

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While schools nationwide are spending billions of dollars on education technology, there is little research to support whethe -More- 

The use of technology in the classroom may be having some unintended consequences for students and teachers, suggests Matthew -More- 

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Researchers are mapping the incidence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which affects amphibians, in the hopes of gaining a  -More- 

Students from Mechanicsburg Area Middle School in Pennsylvania returned to school after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., poise -More- 

Geography is the only one of the nine core subjects recognized under No Child Left Behind not to have received dedicated fede -More-