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NEW YORK (AP) -- On an occasional evening at the kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York, Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she's not supposed to.
2008-07-18 09:15:00
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The British government has ordered an inquiry into the actions of a U.S. company hired to mark more than a million pupils' exam papers, after schools complained of missed deadlines, shoddy work and inconsistent grading.
2008-07-18 08:23:08
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The South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) is pleased to announce a recent $3,000 grant contribution from the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation Fund, sponsored by the Central Carolina Community Foundation.
2008-07-18 08:58:20
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The Milford School District has the odds stacked against it. About 45 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Almost half are minorities. About 17 percent are in special education. All are groups typically on the lagging ...
2008-07-18 03:14:00
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Kris Grunwald joined the University of Arkansas volleyball staff as an assistant coach, head coach Robert Pulliza announced Thursday. Grunwald is very familiar with the Southeastern Conference and Arkansas after six years at Auburn and three at Ole ...
2008-07-18 03:49:00
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A long-lost collection of tapes representing the legacy of the musical genius who composed the Dr Who theme has been rescued from irreversible decay by a team of academic musicologists. Delia Derbyshire, who battled with depression and died, aged ...
2008-07-18 02:23:00
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HARTFORD, Conn. - State education officials say that the results of the 2008 Connecticut Mastery Test show some improvements for lower grades in math and reading, but mixed results in writing. The annual testing of about 250,000 students is to assess ...
2008-07-18 02:23:00
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One work to which Delia Derbyshire sometimes liked to refer was Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. On the face of it, Angelou’s theme couldn’t be farther removed from Derbyshire’s abstract sound world. Yet the point was that ...
2008-07-17 02:13:00
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A story on high school dropout rates Thursday omitted numbers for Wilson High School and the California Academy of Mathematics and Science in the Long Beach school district.
2008-07-18 01:23:36
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I have always spelt Math, H-A-T-E. Let's face it - Mathematics is a subject that arouses extreme feelings in the bosom of a student. Either you hate it or you love it. Either you are good at it or you feel lost at the mention of it. I belong to the ...
2008-07-14 05:59:00
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Barry J. McWhirter has become a member of the law firm of Apperson, Crump & Maxwell. He focuses his practice primarily in litigation and immigration. Cathy Ivey, Jon Moultrie and Bill Ivey, agents at Enterprise Realtors, were recently given the ...
2008-07-17 09:59:00
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New York City students continue to make substantial progress in math achievement since the district set out to make vast improvements six years ago. The city's curriculum includes Wright Group/McGraw-Hill's Everyday Mathematics (http://www ...
2008-07-16 06:01:00
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Some local school districts followed state trends on the annual Connecticut Mastery Test that about 250,000 third- through eighth-graders took last spring. That meant better performance in mathematics and reading but mixed results in writing. Besides ...
2008-07-17 11:24:00
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Pell Grant: Need based federal grant for low-income students. Grant based on EFC, cost of attendance, and enrollment status Academic Competitiveness Grant: This is a grant for full-time students who are eligible for the Federal Pell Grant. An ACG ...
2008-07-17 11:03:00
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A recent report on the mathematics education of elementary teachers has raised more than eyebrows. The nationwide study, conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality, surveyed 77 post-secondary institutions that offer elementary education ...
2008-07-17 09:08:00
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