March 24, 2010 – 4:46 PM | by: Dan Springer The mother of a 15-year old Seattle girl is furious because her daughter had an abortion with some assistance from the nurses at her school and she was never informed. She only found out after the fact when her daughter had an unrelated health problem and […]
News & Observer March 24, 2010 RALEIGH During a tense marathon meeting, the Wake County school board voted to stop busing students for diversity, then cemented that action by taking the first steps toward a community-based system of student assignment. With a 5-4 vote Tuesday, the Republican-backed board’s majority ended more than three decades of
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CATHOLIC SCHOOL 1+2 = 3 > Until a child tells you what they are thinking, we can’t even begin to imagine how their mind is working…. > Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. > His parents had tried everything…tutors, mentors, > flash cards, special learning centers. > In short, everything they could think
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MARCH 16, 2010 Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last week that the Obama Administration will ramp up investigations of civil rights infractions in school districts, which might sound well and good. What it means in practice, however, is that his Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will revert to the Clinton Administration policy of equating statistical
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 IZUMI&CLEMENS: Learning from Canada’s schools Lance T. Izumi and Jason Clemens In a speech on Canadian television touting the health care system of our northern neighbor, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said, “It’s not that you need to become more like Americans, we need to become more Canadian-like.” If America mimicked Canadian
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A Matter of Principal … “A Matter of Principal” http://shmais.com/news.cfm?ID=44538
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OPINION MARCH 13, 2010 Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen By PETER BERKOWITZ Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to
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MARCH 10, 2010 Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week. Let’s hope their future employers get a better work product. With just a little research, the students could have discovered that compensation packages won from the state by unions were a big reason for the hike. Last year,
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MARCH 6, 2010 By PETER ROBINSON During the “Strike and Day of Action to Defend Education” on Thursday, tens of thousands of students, teachers, professors and administrators marched in California and some 30 other states to protest cuts in education spending. David Patterson, a librarian at Cañada College, a community college in Redwood City, proved
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Published Sun, Feb 28, 2010 03:45 AM Modified Sun, Feb 28, 2010 12:51 AM New JROTC is a path to success from high school RALEIGH Moments after walking into Millbrook High School’s Junior ROTC room, it’s obvious that the students running the show aren’t typical high schoolers. The precocious teenagers are well-mannered. They’re hard-working. And
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