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Pueblo Charter Schools Agree To Audit Among Allegations

Colorado education officials have agreed to audit a Pueblo-based network of charter schools amid allegations of cheating on standardized tests and questions about salaries paid to top administrators.

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Related Topix: Education, Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Metro

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Chicago Daily News

Report: Chicago's public schools making little progress in student achievement

Chicago's public schools have made little progress in raising student achievement during the last several years, according to a new nonprofit report.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Chicago Metro, Education Etc., Education

Wed Jul 01, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

NJ says more school districts meeting standards

New Jersey education officials say more school districts are meeting requirements under federal school laws.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Education, Jersey City Metro, Jersey City, NJ, Newark Metro, Elizabeth, NJ

Kansas City InfoZine

Relationships Improve Student Success

Columbia, MO - infoZine - When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success.

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Related Topix: Columbia Metro, Columbia, MO, University of Missouri, Education, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

Yuma Sun

Horne: Deficit impact on education minimal

Arizona's growing deficit will have an impact on education, but compared with other state services, education fares well, Tom Horne, Arizona school superintendent, assured a Yuma audience Thursday.

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Related Topix: Yuma, AZ, Education Etc., Education

Tue Jun 30, 2009

NBC 15 Online

High School Juniors Will Not Get Free ACT

June 29 -- Juniors at Mobile County high schools will not get to take the ACT for free.

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Related Topix: Education, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL, Mobile County, AL, Education Etc.

Mon Jun 29, 2009

San Francisco Examiner

A perspective on the SAT from France

June 29, 8:05 AM Comment RSS Usually I write about stuff that's happening to me in France or that I observe over here that I think might interest people.

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Related Topix: Education, Psychology, Science, Berkeley, CA, University of Pennsylvania, African-American, Education Etc.

The Daily Illini

Rapper DMC encourages teachers to think rap

Rap is and always will be a passion for Darryl McDaniels. Likewise, he says, is education.

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Related Topix: Dance, DMC, Run DMC, Rap, Chicago Metro

The RiotACT

ACT employers feeling bullish?

The ABC has an item on Hudson recruiting's latest survey: The survey by recruitment firm Hudson shows employer confidence has risen for the first time in more than a year and is now 11.5 per cent above the national average.

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Related Topix: Education

Sun Jun 28, 2009

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Our View: Streamline college aid forms

Though such statistics are not universally kept, some local school districts can count on one hand the number of high school graduates going on to four-year colleges.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Education, Kids, Family

Sat Jun 27, 2009

GantDaily.com

AG Announces Arrest of Former School Secretary Accused of Altering Grades to Help Daughter

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation have filed criminal charges against a Huntingdon County woman accused of using her position as a high school secretary to alter grades and test scores in order to enhance her daughter's class standing.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Huntingdon County, PA, Huntingdon, PA, Education Etc., Education

MSNBC

Urban high school's rare feat: No dropouts

Strip searched schoolgirl: 'I never questioned authority' June 26: Savana Redding, who was strip-searched when she was 13-years-old by school officials looking for pills, talks about the ordeal that ended Thursday with the Supreme Court ruling that the school had violated the Constitution.

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Related Topix: Camden, NJ, Education, Family, Teenagers

The Advocate

Ohio budget talks may pivot on education

CINCINNATI -- As Ohio's top politicians inch closer to a deal on a two-year budget package worth more than $50 billion, they face a smorgasbord of unresolved arguments about how schools throughout the Buckeye State would work.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, Ohio, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Education

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Kansas City Star

Pa. mother charged with changing daughter's grades

A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.Caroline Maria McNeal of Huntingdon is accused of using the passwords of three co-workers without their knowledge to tamper with dozens of grades and test scores between May 2006 and ...

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Related Topix: Huntingdon, PA, Education

People's Daily Online

Twin sisters get the same exam scores: telepathy or not?

Twin sisters, Zang Jiahuan and Zang Jiale, wear matching shirts and received matching scores on the national college exams this year.

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Related Topix: China, World News, Education

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Hindustan Times

Panel suggests GRE-type test for college admissions

Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has promised action within 100 days on the Yash Pal committee's recommendations of sweeping changes in managing higher education.

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Related Topix: Education

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Glynn County probe shows 'improprieties' on tests

An investigation by the Glynn County school district has confirmed "test improprieties" at an elementary school that is part of a statewide probe into allegations of cheating on standardized tests.

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Related Topix: Glynn County, GA, Education Etc., Education

People's Daily Online

'Gao kao' is over. Now what?

This is 18-year-old Han Yuheng''s longest and most relaxing summer - no homework, no extra classes to prepare for the college entrance exam and nearly three months to kill before heading off to college.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Arts, Literature, Education

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Ann Arbor News

Advocates: Michigan students' financial aid in danger

Students and colleges asked lawmakers on Tuesday to hold off on proposed cuts to Michigan's main state-funded college scholarship, saying the cuts threaten aid to 96,000 students this fall.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government, US News, Michigan State University, Education Etc., Education

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

UPDATED 6/17: Criminal charges for cheating on the CRCT?

UPDATE 6/17: The DeKalb District Attorney's Office is looking into allegations of cheating on the CRCT.

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Related Topix: Education, Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Metro, Fulton County, GA, Glynn County, GA

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