President Barack Obama called for tying teachers' pay to student performance and expanding innovative charter schools Tuesday, embracing ideas that have provoked hostility from members of teachers unions.
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The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun.
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The anti-gay taunts and slurs that Larry endured from his male peers apparently had been constant, as routine for him as math lessons and recess bells. The stinging words were isolating. As grieving friend Melissa Reza, 15, put it, Larry lived much of his life "toward the side. .
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger escaped an assassination plot hatched by the Hells Angels, a new British Broadcasting Corp. documentary claims. Jagger
Oil prices have surged to a new record high in reaction to the falling dollar and fading hopes of more supply. US light, sweet crude jumped to $103.95 a barrel, before giving back some gains to trade at $102.45. London Brent also climbed to a record, hitting $102.
It seems like this is as good a time as any to think about and discuss what we want in a social news site, and how we find it (or don't) at Newsvine. Has what you want in a social news site changed over time?
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Many have requested an official response in regards to the recent set of pranks carried out by 12 contributors. For those of you who may have missed it, or aren't sure what happened, here's a brief breakdown.
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As any frequent reader of this column will note, I am generally reluctant to slip into the first person in my writing and less than enthusiastic when it comes to discussing the "meta" goings on within the Social News community in which I publish.
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Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; a …
Anna Peisl Dinner conversations rich with explanation and storytelling may help kids learn to read. Zefa/Corbis Morning Edition, February 7, 2008 · About a decade ago, research started appearing on the family dinner, and the news was uniformly good.
What do you do with a year and a half of experience in marketing at a small ministry and a degree in music education? This is my current situation.
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There are several misconceptions about the generation of electricity as it relates to plug-in cars.
Food pantries, social service agencies and community organizations are struggling this winter as many businesses donate less money to charity than last year because of the uncertain economy.
I was in high school when the internet became mainstream in the mid 1990s. I remember checking out chat rooms and bulletin boards and downloading DOOM. Back then, people remained anonymous on the net.
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Last Friday morning at 10:17 AM, my daughter Madelyn came screaming into the world. It was a great moment. Since then I've been trying to stay caught up with work, learn how to change diapers (wipe down, not up on girls), and enjoy everything soft and cute about my little girl.
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New research challenges the common perception that adoption negatively impacts a child's self-esteem. A study by a Dutch researcher shows that adopted children tend to overcome developmental and emotional problems, and achieve a normal level of self-esteem.
Before I went to Thailand this summer, I had never heard of a junta. I wouldn't have recognized one if it was running straight at me in an open field.
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It's 6:30 in the morning and sleepy-eyed children are walking in holding the hands of their little brothers and sisters to the sound of Enrique singing and playing his guitar.
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There is growing concern within the petroleum industry that we are approaching a limit to the amount of oil that can be pumped each day, and it might arrive before alternative fuels can be adopted on a large enough scale to avert severe energy shortages, the Wall Street Journal …
Shoppers are getting all bent out of shape over the name change of their favorite department stores. The protest is loudest in Chicago where the historic Marshall Fields was changed to Macy's. My question: Is this really what we've become passionate about?
I'm in the middle of my second week in Liberia and the excitement of going on an adventure has worn off. It's hot and humid, and there's no reliable running water. I've stood under a running shower only twice in the last eleven days, and for only 3-4 minutes each time.
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"Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said when we got into the car. "Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said again when he stopped the car and got out.
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I grew up seeing images of starving children in Africa on t.v. I'm bombarded with them all the time by the media. The images of a world so different than mine have always been interesting, but never engaging.
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My wife is pregnant and the arrival of our "little bundle of joy," as our doctor calls it every time we see him, is imminent - possibly as soon as next week some time.
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Abukar Mursal stopped going outside to play after a bullet grazed his back during a soccer game in Mogadishu, the wretched seaside capital where he was born.
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Richard H. Freund had it all planned out: He’d work until he was 70 and his wife, a psychotherapist, turned 62.
An Orlando, Fla.-based avionics company successfully fired a low-altitude rocket Tuesday at a new spaceport in New Mexico where the state hopes to launch commercial space tourism flights within two years.
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