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WHEELING -- Thirty-eight schools, in both West Virginia and Ohio, are on the receiving end of sharing $21,000 in grant money, thanks to Tri-State Petroleum Corporation, Wheeling, West Virginia. April marked the company's 35th Anniversary and they ...
2009-06-22 07:39:00
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A simple five-minute behavioral test for children entering kindergarten can predict significant gains in mathematics skills over the course of the year, researchers have found. Claire Cameron Ponitz, a research associate at the University of Virginia ...
2009-06-22 05:22:00
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You are a level 10 character. You have a quest to kill 10 mottled boars which yield 120 experience each. The quest reward is 1000xp. How many extra boars do you need to kill to level up? Yes folks, World of Warcraft is the new educational medium ...
2009-06-22 07:10:00
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Schoolchildren deserve the best language tool when it comes to learning Science and Mathematics. THE teaching of Science and Mathematics in English, which goes by the official abbreviation PPSMI (Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Mathematik dalam ...
2009-06-22 07:39:00
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Maths can come alive when people learn how it runs seductively below the surface in art and music. Photograph: Daryl Benson/Getty My son is 13. In his English lessons, he spends time learning the grammar and vocabulary of the language - basic ...
2009-06-22 06:20:00
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TexPREP, the Texas Pre-freshman Engineering Program, began at UTPB Monday with more than 100 sixth through ninth grade students from ECISD, MISD, other school districts and private schools. The purpose of TexPREP is to accelerate mathematics ...
2009-06-22 07:17:00
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MATHEMATICIAN Clio Cresswell isn't in it, so she can't win it. But even if she were, the odds of taking home the $50 million jackpot in tonight's Oz Lotto draw would not be much improved. To be precise, the chances of winning the jackpot with a ...
2009-06-22 04:04:00
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There are now 14 with double-digit unemployment (27.4%) vs. none a year ago. Eight states have seen their unemployment rates increase by 5.0 points or more, and nine more have seen increases of at least four points. While all states have seen ...
2009-06-22 03:57:00
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Implicit stereotypes thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published this week ...
2009-06-22 04:32:00
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RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia business leaders and college presidents are teaming up to seek more funding for the state's public higher-education system. The Grow By Degrees effort was launched Monday by the Virginia Business Higher Education Council. The ...
2009-06-22 03:06:00
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Brian Sullivan has been clipping toes from toads since the early 1980s. It’s not some type of strange hobby, and he releases the toads back into their habitat along the Agua Fria River north of Phoenix once he has obtained samples and collected ...
2009-06-22 01:48:00
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Each year the students at Holy Catholic School participate in standardized assessment through TerraNova, a national standardized assessment tool produced by CTB McGraw-Hill. TerraNova is the most widely-used assessment tool in the nation in public ...
2009-06-22 02:31:00
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DOVER, N.H., June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students who take the Progress Toward Standards Online Assessment(TM) (PTS3) will now receive Lexile(R) and Quantile(R) measures in addition to their standard reading and mathematics scores. Developed ...
2009-06-22 01:55:00
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LOTTO mania has hit Victoria and more than a million people are expected to buy a ticket for Tuesday's $50 million Oz Lotto. That's triple the number of those usually in the draw. About 20 per cent of the state's population were predicted to buy at ...
2009-06-22 08:47:00
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Grow By Degrees, a campaign of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council , launched Monday to increase the number of college degree holders in the state while plotting a long-term recovery for Virginia’s economy. The coalition -- made up of ...
2009-06-22 11:17:00
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