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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
State education leaders decided Friday to ask lawmakers for what they see as a realistic -- rather than overly ambitious -- education budget for next school year.
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Geary Behaviour Centre (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A reminder that there will be a one day symposium of research on education at the Geary Institute on Monday November 9th, starting at 9.30am. Full schedule below Session 1 Early Childhood 9.30-10.00 Kelly McNamara “Evaluation of the Preparing for Life Programme: Two years on” 10.00-10.20 Sarah Finnegan “Differential teacher and parent ratings of school readiness in a disadvantaged...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
( American Institute of Biological Sciences ) The National Association of Biology Teachers will recognize Leonard C. Yannielli, professor of biological sciences at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Conn., with the 2009 Evolution Education Award during the NABT annual professional development conference to be held Nov. 11-14, 2009 in Denver, Colo.
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The Rougblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I read with interest an article on Mlive/Bay City Times concerning this. Public education received a boost today when Governor Granholm announced a new Michigan teaching fellowship thanks in part to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The new teaching fellowship, valued at $16.7 million, will benefit 20,000 public school students in the state. The program...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Gove pledges to make schools engines of social mobility as he spells out Conservatives' education policy The Tories last night promised to narrow the achievement gap between the poorest and richest children if they won the general election. Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, pledged to make schools "the engines of social mobility" in a speech spelling out his party's education...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
ORADELL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the tagline "Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility," organizations nationwide will be honoring American Education Week, which takes place November 15th – 21st. The awareness campaign was founded by the National Education Association (NEA) and according to Eileen Huntington, co-founder of Huntington Learning Centers, it is a campaign...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
CHARLES TOWN, W.V.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: APEI) – parent company of online learning provider American Public University System (APUS), which operates through American Military University and American Public University – announced strong financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Recent Highlights: Net course registrations from new students...
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MarketIntelligenceCenter.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Career Education (CECO) leads the list of top gainers today after the company reported a third-quarter profit last night that beat analysts' forecasts. The stock is now at $22.91, up $2.13 (10.25%) on volume of 2,466,783 shares traded. Over the last 52 weeks the stock has ranged from a low of $13.26 to a high of $26.53. Career Education stock has been showing support around...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In keeping with its quarter of a century tradition of supporting community schools, Ecolab Inc. has awarded more than $775,000 in 2009 through its Ecolab Foundation’s Visions for Learning grant program in 12 communities across the U.S., with $190,000 distributed in the St. Paul area. More than 300 schools and thousands of students benefited from the program this...
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Mulier Fortis (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Government has decided to stop the right of parents to withdraw their children from sex education lessons from the age of 15. Interestingly, the Children's Secretary, Ed Balls, "...suggested with the age of consent being 16 and with young people being able to vote at 18, it did not make sense for parents to have control over whether their children attended sex education classes right up until...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Washington DC-based AlwaysOn has picked Skoodat, an education technology startup company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as one of the top 100 private companies contributing to the renewed and continued prosperity of our country. According to Matt Bowman of AlwaysOn, “The AlwaysOn editorial team and its partners at KPMG, together with industry experts across the...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA), a provider of exclusively online post-secondary education through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University (www.capella.edu), today announced its participation in the following webcasted investor event during November 2009: Date Conference/Location Time Presenter Nov. 12, 2009 3rd Annual Signal HillEducation Preview InvestorConference...
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
No one older than seven or eight can now be in the slightest doubt as to where babies come from, and no one older than 11 or 12 can now be in the slightest doubt as to how to put on a condom. Yet … well, we all know yet what. Do not believe any talk of reductions in underage pregnancies, in particular. There is overwhelming anecdotal evidence that huge numbers of abortions on underage girls...
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chanah66mkg | yesterday
CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine – On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished...
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gali3460g | 11/06/2009
CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine – On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished...
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obi jo | 10/28/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/administration-acknowledges-h1n1-vaccine-delays/ A “perfect storm” of old vaccine production technology, government directed distribution shortfalls, over optimistic estimates of vaccine dose availability, increasing numbers of H1N1 cases, and widespread publicity leading to increased public concern and fear have led to great anxiety over the shortage of swine...
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Did HHS change from the established distribution system?
This CDC document from June http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/mtg-slides-jun09/16-2-wortley.pdf said there were two options for distribution,...
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