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As parents anxiously await the start of another school year and a new teacher for their child, two major national studies remind us that the single most important factor in a student's achievement is the quality of his or her teacher. Reports by both ...
2009-08-22 03:31:00
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COAL CITY — Coal City Community Unit School District 1 has seen the light — at least according to its glowing test scores. Now, with news spreading about its students’ accomplishments over the past five years, other area school districts are ...
2009-08-22 04:57:00
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For Robert Smith, the answer to that timeless question aimed at the heart of identity is literally a question mark. The University of Ottawa mathematics professor calls himself Robert Smith?. That's right. He wants to be known as Smith?, not Smith ...
2009-08-22 03:31:00
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MASON - Bidding opens Monday on four deer hunts at a 200-acre former state Department of Natural Resources game farm at 1031 W. Dexter Trail. The hunts - two for bow hunters and two for gun hunters - are being held to reduce the whitetail deer ...
2009-08-22 02:56:00
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Second, a NASA probe that captured material from a comet found glycine, an amino acid, in the samples, suggesting that the evolution of life on Earth had only begun after a jump-start from space. Do these findings mean that all the work on other ...
2009-08-21 11:14:00
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The Lincoln County School District's elementary and middle school students bested statewide proficiency averages in all but one area in last year's Mississippi Curriculum Test, but its high school students scored below the state mean in three out of ...
2009-08-21 03:21:00
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The new director of the National Institutes of Health gave assurance this week that he has no religious agenda for the nation’s premiere medical research agency amid concerns over his deeply held Christian beliefs. "The NIH director needs to focus ...
2009-08-21 10:52:00
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BUKIT MERTAJAM: The Educa- tion Ministry will ensure that the new curriculum for English language to be implemented by 2012 is based on the recommendations of experts and top linguists. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said he had ...
2009-08-21 06:20:00
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DESOTO COUNTY - DeSoto County students are at the front of the pack in Mississippi, according to state test results released Friday. "We were real pleased with the scores that we received back," Keith Williams, testing coordinator for the DeSoto ...
2009-08-21 10:52:00
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The new school year is quickly arriving. The rains of June continued into July with new proposals from our school districts as to how we can improve the quality of educating our children. This year many include the concepts of inquiry, heterogeneous ...
2009-08-21 06:20:00
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Palm Beach Gardens High math teacher Jenny Ellis is a nominee for a presidential mathematics award. Based on outstanding teaching and leadership in math, Ellis was chosen by the Florida State Selection Committee for the Presidential Awards for ...
2009-08-21 04:11:00
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