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In the Public Interest, a nonprofit, says Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education is being used as a cover for companies seeking public money.

The president wants to dramatically expand preschool access for low- and middle-income children, but has yet to spell out the cost.

The head of the National Science Foundation plans to step down, while the National Science Teachers Association gets a new director.

The agency's proposed rules would also limit junk food sold a la carte on school lunch lines.

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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?

US - AZ, Minimum Qualifications • Ph.D. in Anthropology conferred by Aug. 1, 2013. • At least 1 year of teaching experience in undergraduate anthropology curricula. The successful candidate should have an

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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US - MN - Moorhead, Responsibilities:The Minnesota State University Moorhead College of Social and Natural Sciences invites applications for the following adjunct faculty positions for the Fall 2013 semester. All positi

US - MN - St. Paul, Responsibilities:The Upward Bound Outreach Counselor will offer outreach to youth in the St. Paul area. The Upward Bound Program provides tutoring, academic support, college preparation, career explo

US - MN - St. Paul, Responsibilities: Provide leadership, direction and management of Women's, gender, LGBTQ and cultural programming student services. Serve as campus expert on LGBTQ, Gender and Women's issues and rep

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