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USA Today
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The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education — fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an Associated Pr..
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Washington Post
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Would America open its doors for the next Albert Einstein? Under the new immigration bill, the answer is maybe, but maybe not.
For years, foreign-born Nobel Prize winners, corporate officers, and top talents in sports, arts and sciences have had a fast..
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Independent
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The BBC is to axe all 200 posts within its online education service, BBC Jam, it was announced yesterday.
The move follows the BBC Trust's decision to suspend the £150 million service in March as a result of claims it was damaging the interests of com..
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Washington Post
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The U.S. Department of Education yesterday blocked lending companies from accessing a national database with confidential information on tens of millions of students after some companies were found to have searched the data in ways that violate federal ru..
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CBC
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Proposed changes to Ontario's Education Act announced Tuesday are designed to stop students from posting online attacks against other students or teachers.
At a news conference at Queen's Park, Education Minister Kathleen Wynne said the revamped act wi..
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MSNBC
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The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule. The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for adv..
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Alter Net
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As No Child Left Behind comes due for reauthorization, the public has many reasons to remain skeptical about whether it really helps children learn...
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Houston Chronicle
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One out of three Texas students don't graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state's largest cities, according to education experts...
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CNN
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college...
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Canada.com
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The Quebec ministry of education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after an Outaouais school board complained the provincial curriculum wasn't being..
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SF Gate
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Ethan Winsby considers himself in financial ruin at age 27 -- but not because he lost at gambling or risked everything on a startup that went bust...
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SF Gate
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About 1,500 college students rallied at state Capitol this morning to protest $1 billion in budget cuts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California's three college systems in the coming fiscal year.
Students from many UC, state universi..
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BBC News
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The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment.
In a report, bank officials said Arab states had to make improving education their top priority,..
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FOX News
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Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family friend said.
Hill died peacefully Sunday at his home during breakfast, said Joseph Morrissey, a friend of the..
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BBC News
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Scientists have launched a petition which complains that physics education is being dumbed down.
They have lodged a petition at 10 Downing Street calling for ministers to bring back mathematical rigour into secondary physics education.
They complain..
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CNN
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Antioch College, known for its offbeat approach to education, will close in 2008 because of a money shortage and will try to find enough funds to reopen four years later, the school said Tuesday.
Enrollment at the private liberal arts college has dwind..
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Guardian Unlimited
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All national exams should be abolished for children under 16 because the stress caused by over-testing is poisoning attitudes towards education, according to an influential teaching body.
In a remarkable attack on the government's policy of rolling nat..
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BBC News
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Bribery and corruption damage universities and schools across the world, according to a report for the UN's education wing, Unesco.
The study says education is plagued by rigged tendering processes, academic fraud and bribes over places and posts.
A..
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Washington Post
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The nation's students have performed significantly better on state reading and math tests since President Bush signed his landmark education initiative into law five years ago, according to a major independent study released yesterday.
The study's auth..
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