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Obama girls start school with photographers in tow (AP)
AP - President-elect Barack Obama's two daughters were whisked into their new schools on Monday past a line of waiting photographers.
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D.C. Schools Chief's Plan Faces Opposition
Washington D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is fast becoming the country's best-known urban school reformer. But her proposal to do away with teacher tenure and replace it with an ambitious merit pay program has divided the teachers union.
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D.C. Lawmaker to Seek Review of School Reform Effort
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray said today he will seek an independent evaluator to assess the progress of public school reform in the District under Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.
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More schools getting in tune with mariachi (AP)
AP - Jose Perez often butted heads with his grandfather, who emigrated from Mexico years ago and feared his American-born grandson didn't appreciate the sacrifices his family made. Then the teenager started playing the music of the elder's homeland.
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The Rush for '21st-Century Skills'
In a seventh-grade science class at Grace E. Metz Middle School in Manassas, 12-year-olds Chris Isaacson and Nathan McCallister were building a bridge out of 30 uncooked pieces of spaghetti. They had drawn several plans. After pushing down on the spaghetti from several angles, they decided that...
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Rhee Plans Shake-Up of Teaching Staff, Training
At the heart of Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's vision for transforming D.C. schools is a dramatic overhaul of its 4,000-member teacher corps that would remove a "significant share" of instructors and launch an ambitious plan to foster professional growth for those who remain.
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Obama Arrives in Style
With a brief glance out his car window -- barely visible through cordons of Secret Service officers, black SUVs and security barricades -- the soon-to-be leader of the free world bid a brief hello last night to the town he will now call home and to his new neighbors: scores of spectators camped o...
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The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st-Century Skills
Today on this page, we are ushering in the new year with the hottest trend in pedagogy, the latest program teachers are told they cannot live without. It is called 21st-century skills. Education policymakers, press agents and pundits can't get enough of it.
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Obama's Education Wish List May Have To Wait
With the economy on life support and just about every state now slashing education funding, President-elect Barack Obama is likely to focus less on immediate proposals and more on building political consensus for future action.
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More and More, Schools Got Game
Lifelong gamer Russell Alford, 15, usually has to wait until his homework and chores are finished before he can play Call of Duty 4, but this semester he got to play another video game at school. His finance class at Marshall High School in Fairfax County designed avatars and saved a virtual city...
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Essay Prize: Parade Seats For D.C. Kids
Some lucky and literary D.C. middle and high school students could write their own ticket to a front row seat at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural parade.
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Michelle Obama, Girls Arrive in Washington
Future first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters slipped into Washington last night, flying in from Chicago a day earlier than expected and checking into their new, temporary home at the posh Hay-Adams Hotel.
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Denver School Chief Tapped To Take Senate Seat
In Colorado, Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to name Michael Bennett to the seat vacated by Sen. Ken Salazar, who's leaving Congress to be Barack Obama's secretary of the interior.
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Fairfax Schools Chief Wants to Keep Grading System
A long-awaited Fairfax County school system report released yesterday found no conclusive evidence that the county's tough grading policy hurts students' chances of gaining admission to college but said it could hamper their ability to get into honors programs or earn some scholarships.
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With Obama's Rise, Hawaii School Adds to Its Distinctions
HONOLULU -- When President-elect Barack Obama visited the lush campus of his old high school for a game of basketball in the waning days of his vacation this week, he returned to no ordinary Hawaiian school, but one with a rich history of teaching the island's elite and an array of distinctions: the...
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Officials Look to Slash Frederick Sports Budget
Frederick County school officials are looking at eliminating varsity swimming and all freshman sports to save money in the next fiscal year.
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Montgomery College Chief Faces Delicate Balancing Act
Even before the financial meltdown, Maryland's largest community college was turning away thousands of students each year because there were too few seats in classrooms and too few dollars for financial aid. Now, Montgomery College President Brian K. Johnson is grappling with record demand for...
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More Colleges Expected to Offer Online Interviews
RALEIGH, N.C. -- For her college interview, Avery Cullinan put on her best outfit but didn't bother with shoes. She sat in her living room, smiled into her computer's webcam and told an admissions officer more than 800 miles away that Wake Forest University was right for her.
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Former Sen. Pell, College Grant Creator, Dies At 90
Claiborne Pell, the six-term U.S. senator who created a program that helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, has died. He was 90. His family noted that the Rhode Island senator defined his job in seven words: "Translate ideas into actions and help people."
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Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool
The founders of the quirky Blue Man Group trio have opened a preschool in New York's East Village with a padded room, climbing wall and light floor with high-tech games. The Blue School — at up to $27,000 a year — is an experiment to help kids explore "divergent thinking."
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