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School boards are looking for ways to cut costs. Teachers and students are feeling pressure to show head-way on standardized tests. And a downturned economy has left its mark with employee furloughs, sluggish to no enrollment increases and generally ...
2009-08-02 02:39:00
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Corazon Aquino, who has died aged 76, seen at the height of her popularity as president of the Philippines Photo: AFP/Getty Images Corazon Aquino – often known as Cory – came to power on the wave of anti-Marcos sentiment triggered in part by the ...
2009-08-02 03:58:00
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The International Baccalaureate programs in Springdale and Bentonville is a tale of two cities. The Springdale program attracts a variety of students — not just the best and the brightest. The Bentonville program recruits the top students, the ...
2009-08-02 05:03:00
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Corazon Aquino was propelled into office as President of the Philippines in an extraordinary sequence of events which began with the assassination of her husband and culminated in the unceremonious ejection of a military dictatorship. In 1986 the ...
2009-08-02 06:43:00
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OPINION: Beatrice Tinsley is one of New Zealand's most uncelebrated celebrities. Daughter of a one-time mayor of New Plymouth, she overcame almost insuperable odds to become a scientist and professor of astronomy at Yale University. She showed early ...
2009-08-02 06:28:00
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Fire has ripped through a second Queensland school overnight destroying a block of classrooms at a high school on Brisbane's northside. The two-storey block of classrooms on the corner of Braun Street and Depot Road at Sandgate District High School ...
2009-08-02 04:27:00
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MUAR: A new strategy is needed to increase bumiputra equity from the 18.9% it has been stuck at in the last 19 years, said Prime Minis-ter Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Handing out shares has clearly not worked, he said. He said it was time to help ...
2009-08-02 06:14:00
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KARACHI - There is no doubt that the real heroes and the men of crisis of Pakistani nation are mostly remained out-screened but played decisive role in building the nation and also to put it out of the crisis. Tragically, such characters are ...
2009-08-02 07:08:00
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THE biggest problem Queensland teachers face is not their low rate of pay but the amount of overtime they are required to put in to mark exam papers. Results from a maths and science forum conducted by James Cook University reveal teachers are ...
2009-08-02 08:56:00
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In preliminary school district accountability rating information released from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) today, the Plano Independent School District rated “exemplary” on 19 and “recognized” on six of the 25 indicators. The “all ...
2009-08-02 08:56:00
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Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Yellow confetti will greet the late Corazon Aquino today in the Philippines’ financial capital, just as when she led the opposition that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s, as the former president is taken to Manila ...
2009-08-02 10:57:00
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Dr. Alice Sheppard weighs a patient. Photo courtesy the Library of Congress Sheppard comforts a patient in 1949. Photo courtesy the Library of Congress. Dr. Sheppard is shown in the delivery room at Pottstown Hospital. During her 40 years of practice ...
2009-08-02 11:55:00
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ALOR GAJAH (Aug 2, 2009): The government is investigating the involvement of opposition leaders in the 'Abolish the ISA Movement's illegal rally in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the investigation to ...
2009-08-02 11:19:00
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BOWLING GREEN - David B. Meronk, 74, a professor emeritus of mathematics who taught algebra to Bowling Green State University students for nearly 30 years, died Thursday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township, from complications of colon ...
2009-08-02 07:08:00
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My mother was a high school mathematics teacher and understood that kids learn best when learning is fun, so at a very young age she started teaching me math “tricks.” In the second grade she showed me how 9 times any number less than 10 was ...
2009-08-02 02:51:00
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