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Free SAT Prep Classes: The Free Library of Philadelphia - until December 19th 2009**

Listen up parents and students!! Take advantage of this free opportunity to excel on the SAT exam.

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Related Topix: Education, Education Etc.

Sat Nov 07, 2009

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Gregory Fankhauser to Be Profiled in Exclusive Registry

Cambridge Who's Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.

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Related Topix: Education, Grand Valley State University

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Village Soup

SAT scores vary for Midcoast high schools

Since the spring of 2007, Maine has used the SAT as its standardized test for juniors, replacing the Maine Educational Assessment test.

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Related Topix: Education, Rockport, ME, Maine, Rockland, ME, Vinalhaven, ME, North Haven, ME

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Pagosa Springs SUN

Pagosa Springs High School is now an ACT national testing site

The ACT national exams will be administered at the Pagosa Springs High School, starting Dec.

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Related Topix: Education, Pagosa Springs, CO

Tribune-Times

Two Greenville County students land perfect SAT

'I wasn'4 sure i4 was my score,' Chen said. 'I fel4 that I hadn'4 done great on my essay and in the reading section.' Deshpande had a headache and was running a fever the day of the test and didn'4 feel she was a4 her best.

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Related Topix: Education, Greenville County, SC

ACT Newsroom

Nov. 7 Marks 50th Anniversary of ACT Test

Iowa City, Iowa-Nov. 7, 2009, marks the 50th anniversary of the ACT college admission and placement exam .

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Related Topix: Education, Education Etc., Seymour, WI, Michigan State University

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Canada.com

Canada must follow leaders in lifelong learning

Canada needs to follow the lead of other countries in developing cultures of lifelong learning or risk falling behind and failing the challenges that an aging population, skills shortage and other social and economic conditions are bringing, warns a new report.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family, Education

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Caledonia workshop preps students for ACT

An ACT preparation workshop will be offered through the Caledonia Resource Center.

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Related Topix: Caledonia, MI, Education

Tue Nov 03, 2009

KIVI

Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars

Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Madison, WI, Madison Metro, Education

Nevada Appeal

PARENTING: It's app time - college that is, not iPhone

If you're throwing around the term "app" a lot but it has nothing to do with iPhones, you must have a high school senior in the family working on a college app.

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Related Topix: Family, Parenting, Teenagers, Education

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Santa Ynez Valley Journal

Students, Faculty React to New State Mandate

Although a California legal ban has been lifted, the fog enveloping it has not. A law signed earlier this month by Gov.

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Related Topix: California Government, California, Education

The Dallas Morning News

Students from Nepal form a growing kinship at community colleges in North Texas

At home in Katmandu, Nepal, Pankaj Karki researched colleges in the United States.

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Related Topix: Texas, Irving, TX, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Education

The Times

Standardized test scores: Grade schools make the grade

Most local elementary school districts met the benchmarks overall under the state's version of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, but even while school officials breathe a sigh of relief, they wonder how many more years that success will last.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Education, Streator, IL, Family, Kids, Utica, IL, Matteson, IL

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Hat City Blog

Anger in the wrong direction

Today's letter to the editor from Maureen Garry underlines one of the many problems with our school system, which Gary Goncalves raised during his campaign, and you'll hear more about after the elections.

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Related Topix: Education, Danbury, CT

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

USC President Steven Sample to Step Down in August

USC President Steven B. Sample, who dramatically boosted the university's academic prestige, financial resources and civic engagement during nearly 19 years as its leader, says he will step down from the post next summer.

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Related Topix: August, CA, Los Angeles Metro, University of Southern California, Education

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Fresh n Fast Canteen Catering Group Celebrate NSW / ACT Schools Roll...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, October 29, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Sydney: School canteen catering company, Fresh n Fast Group, today celebrated plans to expand its business operations in NSW and the ACT by launching a new healthy summer menu.

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Related Topix: Education, Australia, World News,

Hawk Eye

More falling short on NCLB

Hundreds of Illinois public schools have been placed on academic monitoring for failing to meet performance targets under the federal No Child Left Behind law, even as students perform better on standardized tests, state education officials said.

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Related Topix: Education

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Pasadena Star-News

Our View: Bell, Diaz for Duarte schools

THE small Duarte Unified School District - about 4,300 students - is surrounded by generally higher-performing districts.

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Related Topix: Duarte, CA, Education Etc., Education

The Highland Park News

District 95 misses testing progress for first time

For the first time since the federal No Child Left Behind Act became law, Community Unit School District 95 failed to make satisfactory annual yearly progress to comply with the statute, according to figures released at a recent School Board meeting.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Lake Zurich, IL, Education

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Multnomah County commissioners support education relief act for undocumented students

The Multnomah County commissioners never seem short of resolutions to pass and proclamations to make, but today's unanimous vote to support the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was particularly emotional for both the commissioners and the audience who came to support it.

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Related Topix: Multnomah County, OR, Education, Family, Kids, Portland State University, Teenagers

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