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The Choice | Admissions: Common App 4.0
The all-purpose form is getting a digital makeover. For students, that could mean no more cut off wor ...
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Op-Ed Columnist: How Mrs. Grady Transformed Olly Neal
Teachers have the most important job in America. To understand why, listen to the story of Olly Neal, whose life was turned around by an English teacher.
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The Texas Tribune: Texas State University Keeps a Focus on the Future
Texas State’s new classification as an emerging research university could bring in more money and help attract faculty and students.
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Chicago News Cooperative: Looking at Outlay and District Budget Cuts for a Longer Chicago School Day
With the entire city school system moving to a longer school day next year, parents and community members are questioning how the cash-strapped district plans to pay for the extended time.
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Big City: More Agreement Than Disagreement on How to Assess Teachers
Disagreements between unions and politicians on how best to assess teachers are not as significant as the amount of agreement.
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News Analysis: Bloomberg Focuses His Legacy on Education Reform
During his State of the City address, the mayor returned to a recurring theme: the city’s much-maligned schools and his goals to improve them.
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National Briefing | South: Florida: Four A&M Students Are Charged With Hazing
Pledges of a Florida A&M marching band club known as the Clones were punched or paddled while they played music during a hazing initiation, according to police records released Friday.
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The New Student Activism
The Occupy movement took hold at some campuses, and students are still holding their ground. But how strong is their will?
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A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond
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SchoolBook: Union Leader at Murry Bergtraum Asks Teachers: Tell Us How You Really Feel
Responding to an informal survey conducted by a teacher who is the union chapter leader, about half the staff members at a Lower Manhattan high school indicated concerns about school safety and the integrity of the school's academics.
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SchoolBook: In Washington, Mayor Bloomberg Makes His Case for Teacher Evaluations
Speaking in Washington at a meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on the teachers' union to stop blocking a new system of evaluations.
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SchoolBook: Closing Peninsula Prep Leaves Inferior Options
A parent leader at Peninsula Preparatory Academy, which is slated to be closed, writes: '95 percent of Peninsula Prep's students find themselves being directed by the city Department of Education to zoned public schools that Peninsula Prep outperformed.'
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The Learning Network Blog: Seven-Minute Shakespeare
CliffsNotes Films has created a new animated "edutainment" series based on classic literature. What is your take on these and other products like them?
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The Choice Blog: The Choice on 'Today': Tips on Fafsa, and Net-Price Calculators
NBC's morning show focuses this morning on a topic of much discussion around kitchen tables, particularly among families with high school seniors.
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The Learning Network Blog: Fill-In | Twinkies
Fill in the blanks in this article from the Style section,"Sweet, Gooey and an Icon." Use your own words and phrases, or choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed.
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The Choice Blog: Pilot E-Textbook Program at Five Universities Focuses on Bulk Savings, not iBooks
Five universities are implementing a pilot program in the spring of 2012 for electronic textbooks to ease costs and modernize the way students obtain class content.
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The Choice Blog: Coming Soon to a Laptop Near You: Common Application 4.0
A preview of a column in The Times's Education Life Supplement about forthcoming changes to the universal form for applying to more than 450 colleges and universities.
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