12/04/2008
Potential Obama pick visits Education Department (AP via Yahoo! News)
A potential education secretary, Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, visited the Education Department Thursday morning on what he said was a purely social call.
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12/04/2008
Potential Obama Cabinet Pick Meets With Education Department (Fox News)
A potential choice for President-Elect Barack Obama's Education Secretary made a visit to the Education Department on Thursday.
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12/05/2008
Consultants map out Norwalk's special education flaws (Norwalk Advocate)
NORWALK - Consultants presenting a report on the city's special education program stressed to the school board that improved communication and consistency of services across the district are needed quickly.
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12/04/2008
Patrick taps new chairman of higher education board (Boston Globe)
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff Governor Deval Patrick appointed Board of Higher Education member Charles Desmond today to be the board's next chairman. Desmond replaces Frederick W. Clark Jr., who announced his resignation last month. Desmond is the executive vice...
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12/05/2008
CPS Chief Arne Duncan Visits Education Department (CBS 2 Chicago)
Chicago Schools Chief Arne Duncan visited the Education Department Thursday morning in Washington on what he said was a purely social call.
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12/05/2008
Local higher education officials point to stress, anxiety as reasons students turn to drinking and substance abuse (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
A new study indicating that alcohol and substance abuse are still prevalent on campuses while nearly half of college-age Americans has had a “psychotic disorder” comes as no surprise to officials at area higher education institutions.
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12/04/2008
Ark movie sparks religious education row (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Education Queensland has denied that a prep student was given religious instruction at a Toowoomba state school, without parental consent.
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12/05/2008
American Education Week about providing quality education (The Beatrice Daily Sun)
Providing quality education to all students is the focus of American Education Week this week.Beatrice Education Association Co-President Doris Martin said this year's theme is, “Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility,” during a presentation to the Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education during the board's regular meeting Monday evening.“The teachers in this district work ...
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12/05/2008
'Key education performance targets will be missed' (The Jamaica Observer)
KEY performance targets for the country's primary and secondary schools to be achieved by 2015 - as set out in the 2004 report of the National Task Force on Education - will be missed, executive director of the Education Transformation Team (ETT) Frank Weeple has disclosed.
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12/04/2008
Education Board Retains Leadership (Washington Post)
The Prince George's County Board of Education voted to keep Verjeana M. Jacobs and Ron Watson in the panel's top two posts for the coming year, but only after a process that highlighted divisions among the school system's leadership without clarifying what they are.
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