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San Diego, California (CNN) -- Television shows and movies may take you to worlds far away, but their makers, aware of viewers' need for believability, say they consult scientists to make things more real. "Audiences now demand that, or they hunger ...
2010-02-22 12:29:00
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NEWPORT NEWS — At 9:30 on a recent Friday morning, South Morrison Elementary School's fifth-grade classes buzzed with activity. Laura Schmidt's students clustered in teams around plastic lab boxes and small white boards, brainstorming the ...
2010-02-22 10:28:00
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Speaking to governors gathered at the White House Monday, Obama said he won't "accept second place for the United States of America." He noted that it continues to lag behind other nations in critical areas, including high school math and science ...
2010-02-22 09:30:00
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Scientists from the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California - Irvine recently published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on January 22, 2010 titled, "Carbon ...
2010-02-22 12:01:00
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BALTIMORE - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helped to honor the accomplishments of Army and Navy members here Feb. 20 during the 24th Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards gala. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen presented Army Gen. William E. "Kip ...
2010-02-22 10:56:00
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It’s another dueling message day at the White House: Education and health care reform. President Obama told the nation’s governors today that states that put “college-ready” education standards in math and science in place will be eligible ...
2010-02-22 10:49:00
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The White House today unveiled President Obama's health care overhaul bill, which it says will expand health insurance to 31 million more Americans and reduce the federal budget deficit by $100 billion in the next decade. The president's proposal ...
2010-02-22 10:56:00
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Ryan Garza/The Flint Journal Destiny Rose Sohlden, 20, of Flint, lost 80 pounds in one year just from working out at Mott Community College fitness center in between college classes. FLINT, Michigan — Destiny Rose Sohlden pulled a reverse on the ...
2010-02-22 12:08:00
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland schools chief Eugene Sanders wishes people would get past the gristle in his proposed academic-reform plan and chew on the meat. OK, let's bite. If and when the furor over the closing of 13 schools and the moving of five ...
2010-02-22 10:13:00
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A change to the No Child Left Behind Act, which would make federal funding for lower income students contingent on higher, more uniform academic standards. The President said that under NCLB, nearly a dozen states lowered their math standards to ...
2010-02-22 11:03:00
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As what White House officials call "a jumping-off point" for Thursday's bipartisan discussion on health care reform, on Monday at 10 am EST, on the White House website, officials will post the Democratic health care reform legislation that passed the ...
2010-02-22 11:32:00
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Inspirational quotes of the day. Math rules memorized to the tune of a Carol King song. Substituting prairie dogs for particles in a long problem on calculating distance. Burlington High School math teacher David Rome has used all these tactics and ...
2010-02-22 05:27:00
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Until 2005, Nebraska's fourth-graders always scored above the national average in mathematics. Now they score at the national ... For elementary school teachers, achievement on state reading and math assessments would be used, with science added once ...
2010-02-22 07:36:00
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COUNCIL BLUFFS — Ed Probst remembers when the Council Bluffs school district bought its first computers. That was the era when Pac-Man and Donkey Kong were kings of video games. He remembers when the district entered the computer age because he was ...
2010-02-22 07:36:00
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KALAMAZOO — Students at Kalamazoo Central and Loy Norrix high schools will have more flexibility and more choices in picking classes for 2010-11 as the district shifts from block scheduling to a trimester system, school officials say. The change ...
2010-02-22 07:14:00
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