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More than 79 percent of Georgia's public schools made Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, according to initial results -- a 10 point jump over 2008. Additionally, 58 schools across the state shook the "Needs Improvement" label by having made AYP for ...
2009-07-15 02:25:00
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Tackling science: Critics claim that the GCSEs have been dumbed down so much that they are little more than a test of general knowledge Top scientists were last night accused of trying to hush up a damning report on the dumbing down of GCSEs to avoid ...
2009-07-15 10:03:00
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The initiative to inject critical thinking into 11 CXC subjects could, in theory, transform Caribbean society. Last Monday, the Caribbean Examinations Council signed an agreement with UWI's Institute of Critical Thinking for the latter to review ...
2009-07-15 11:15:00
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Matthew Arthur, director of incident communications solutions, has been named president-elect of the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA). Arthur, who will serve as president-elect of ACUTA ...
2009-07-15 07:54:00
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Teenagers need only a grasp of grammar and no scientific knowledge to answer GCSE science questions correctly, a report suggests today. It says that the right answers to multiple-choice questions are obvious because they are often the only ones that ...
2009-07-15 04:34:00
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California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed said that what passes for algebra in high schools is really “algebra light,” and characterized as “outrageous” that school districts don’t require more of their students. The backdrop ...
2009-07-15 04:05:00
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Hossein Lari Yazdi, and Saman Hossein khani from Iran are among the jury members and Mahnaz zarnia as well as Amin Jahanbakhshi also from Iran are among the observers of the competition. The 20th International Biology Competition began on July 13 ...
2009-07-15 04:55:00
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Despite the difficulties lawmakers faced in regards to the budget, we fought to ensure that K-12 public schools would receive full funding based on the state's Basic Education Program funding mechanism. In addition to fully funding K-12 education ...
2009-07-15 04:27:00
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The knowledge of maths is the thought process and the language is the talking process – this aspect is being overlooked. Very often we hear that most of our graduates passing out of colleges are not employable. Most of the IT industry titans ...
2009-07-15 01:06:00
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Results for the Michigan Merit Exam released Tuesday by the Department of Education, indicate South Lyon juniors exceeded county and state proficiency averages in all academic categories. “District wide, compared to previous years, we pretty well ...
2009-07-15 01:06:00
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Raleigh, N.C. — A teacher at Raleigh's Hunter Elementary school was honored at home and a school last week. Carol Swink Wooten was in the hospital delivering her first child July 7 when word came that she had won the Presidential Award for ...
2009-07-15 06:35:00
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Riveting, action-packed and laden with drama, it piqued the people's imagination for as long as it took to be released. If not for the absence of robots and pneumatic women, it could have been Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But it is a subject ...
2009-07-15 06:50:00
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David paid his credit card one day late, one time, and Chase immediately jacked his interest rate from 12.24% to the default rate of 29.99% . He called customer service and was told he need to pay on-time for 6 months before he could get it reduced ...
2009-07-15 10:36:00
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Sylvan Franchisee Mohamed Dobashi Also Plans Additional Centers in Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Oman Within the Next Year BALTIMORE, July 15 BALTIMORE, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sylvan Learning, Inc., North America's most recognized provider of ...
2009-07-15 12:38:00
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Bangalore, July 15 : Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will chair a five-member jury of the Infosys Science Foundation, set up by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd, to select winners for its awards in five science disciplines, the company said ...
2009-07-15 11:19:00
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