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HARRISBURG - Test results released Thursday show that 78 percent of Pennsylvania public schools are meeting federal academic performance targets, an increase of 4 percentage points over last year. State education officials said 2,443 of 3,115 total ...
2009-09-04 10:33:00
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Teenagers taking a higher-tier mathematics paper set by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, Britain’s biggest exam board, could be awarded the equivalent of a C with only 20 per cent. Students needed only 23 per cent for a C – considered ...
2009-09-04 04:45:00
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BATON ROUGE The National Science Foundation, or NSF, has awarded $5 million to LSU to support and develop the Louisiana Math and Science Teacher Institute, or LAMSTI, a collaborative project involving 15 school districts within a 50-mile radius of ...
2009-09-04 12:34:00
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BRIDGETON - A high school teacher in Millville has been indicted for multiple counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault relating to allegations he carried on sexual relationships with some of the school's female students. Michael Drebes, 37 ...
2009-09-04 03:05:00
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Four of the Waynesboro Area School District’s six schools made adequate yearly progress in 2008-09, and the district as a whole also made AYP, according to results released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. All of Franklin ...
2009-09-04 02:15:00
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Teachers’ Day is a great opportunity to express your respect to your teachers and extend your gratitude to them, for making you what you are. We respect teachers as we respect our parents. But sometimes likeness to a particular Sir or Madam ...
2009-09-04 04:23:00
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Liberty's Tommy Beecher could have called it a career after earning a degree in mathematics at South Carolina. Instead, he transferred to Football Championship Subdivision member Liberty and will try to help the Flames pursue ...
2009-09-04 04:38:00
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Adrienne Marie Allain and Daniel Olaf Brigham, both of Columbia, were married at 3 p.m. June 20 at the home of the bride’s parents, Carpenter-Allain Family Farm in Florence. The bride is the daughter of Jim and Sherry Allain, of Florence. The groom ...
2009-09-04 11:23:00
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The findings – in a study by King’s College London and Durham University – will reignite the row over “dumbing down” in the education system. It comes amid claims that rising exam results are down to easier tests and not better teaching or ...
2009-09-04 06:04:00
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Excitement and joy filled the Cave household yesterday on Brathwaite Street, El Dorado, after the family found out their middle child, Chantal Abbigail, was one of two winners of President’s medals for her outstanding performance in the Caribbean ...
2009-09-04 09:50:00
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The incompetence of President Barack Obama’s health care reform effort is undeniable, and unexpected. A supremely competent candidate and campaign usually indicate a talent for governing and communications. But on central issues such as the public ...
2009-09-04 08:38:00
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While celebrating its 40th anniversary as a four-year public university, UALR today posted a record fall enrollment of 13,167, a 10 percent increase over last fall’s enrollment. UALR’s fall 2008 enrollment stood at 11,965. When UALR, known then ...
2009-09-04 10:25:00
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South Dakota State University civil engineering student Stephanie Peters was recently awarded a $3,000 Samuel Fletcher Tapman Scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Peters, a senior from Nerstrand, Minn., was awarded the ...
2009-09-04 09:14:00
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Under a bill recently passed by the Michigan House of Representatives, high school students would be able to graduate without taking Algebra II. According to Rep. Joel Sheltrown, D-West Branch, one of the bill’s original sponsors, the bill is ...
2009-09-04 10:18:00
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The Somerville Mathematics Fund announces the winners of its renewable college mathematics scholarships. The selection committee was impressed with the quality of this year’s applicants. At Somerville High School’s award night, Erica Voolich ...
2009-09-04 05:46:00
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