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A massive influx of outside cash has turned a local campaign into a national showdown between the teachers' union and deep-pocketed education activists.

Now that President Obama has proposed a new initiative to broaden preschool programs, the debate about the value of early childhood education has gotten a lot louder. To help sort out what is true and what isn't, W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, has just released a report that details what the best research says about early education -- and what it doesn't.

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Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, learned about more than genetics during a candidate weekend at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi.

US - NY - Alfred, Job Description: The primary responsibility of the position is to teach a range of lower-level and upper-level human services courses in the BS - Human Services Management program. The successful ca

What is Code.org? What message does Code.org want to communicate with its new video?

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What's worth learning? Veteran educator Marion Brady tries to answer the question below. Brady was a classroom teacher for years, has written history and world culture textbooks (Prentice-Hall), professional books, numerous nationally distributed columns (many are available here), and courses of study. His 2011 book "What's Worth Learning" asks and answer this question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner? His course of study for secondary-level students, called Connections: Investigating Reality, is free for downloading here. Brady's website is www.marionbrady.com.

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