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Summertime Also Means Summer School

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
Summer school begins Wednesday for those Philadelphia school students who choose to go and those who have to go.
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Learning styles redux

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
I came across yet another reference to "learning styles" on the Internet. This one comes from a home-schooling blog called Joyful Mother Teaches and the entry is entitled "Learning Style ." Becky, who goes by ...
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Girl challenges 'gaokao' with zero

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
By Echo Shan Updated: 2006-07-05 17:09 A senior high school graduate submitted an unconventional paper for the college entrance exams, or gaokao, this year, challenging the current elitist selection system, ...
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Test scores vary, cloud students' progress

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
With a growing mass of student test scores at their fingertips, education leaders and parents should more easily be able to tell how students have fared academically in the past few years.
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Competition for top scholars is on the rise, ...

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
Eric Kamenjarin was stunned when he learned that he had won a prestigious Trustee Scholarship from Western Illinois University, worth up to $53,000 for four years of study.
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Signal Hill district suddenly seeking a new s...

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
A round of musical chairs has left the one-school Signal Hill school district in Belleville searching for an interim superintendent.
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Town Meeting under way in Jersey Shore

July 5th, 2006 by Administrator
Texas goat attacks school WZZM 13 - Plano, Texas- A goat in Texas was caught on camera ramming an Elementary School's window.
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