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- 'Parent Trigger' Campaign Divides Families at Calif. School
- More public schools dish up 3 meals a day
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- Vermont pushes to get more students to college
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- Former KC sup rewrote contracts before departure
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College Campuses Are Producing a New Style of AIDS Activist
NEW HAVEN — David Carel was never a rabble-rouser. But amid the clutter of his dorm room at Yale University , Mr. Carel, baby-faced and slight-shouldered at 19, keeps evidence of his new life as an AIDS activist: posters, banners and the flier demanding “$50 bn for Global AIDS” that he concealed in his fleece jacket one Saturday in late October when, heart pounding, he sneaked past security into a Democratic campaign rally in Bridgeport
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French Professors Find Life in U.S. Hard to Resist
PARIS — Academics are increasingly leaving France for the United States, which carries the risk of a “brain drain” in France, according to a report this month by an independent study group.
How Cities Pick School Chiefs, for All to See
It is not always pretty. It may resemble a beauty pageant or a paintball contest more than a government exercise to determine how to go about educating a generation of children.
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Square Feet: M.I.T.’s Makeover for the 21st Century
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Not so long ago, the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a hodgepodge of bunkerlike academic buildings, converted World War I-era factories, parking lots and even an occasional Quonset hut
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Affluent Indians Sending More Students Abroad
NEW DELHI — When Rohit Bhasin recently arrived in India after eight years away, he was taken aback by the number of homes, roads and bridges being built. Related France Wrestles With Its 2 Tiers of Higher Education (October 11, 2010) “The first thing I noticed stepping off here was, ‘There’s so much spending going on,”’ said Mr
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4,100 Students Prove ‘Small Is Better’ Rule Wrong
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A Celebratory Road Trip for Education Secretary
PORTLAND, Me. — A chartered bus adorned with slogans about “Hope” and “Dreams” was rumbling through this part of the country this week, carrying a public servant who made regular stops to greet mayors and local television cameras
Some Business Skills to Go With the Passion
IT’S a recipe for a role model: economic anxiety and America’s inherent optimism. Enter that paragon of self-reliance, the entrepreneur. Enlarge This Image Tim Davis/Patagonia “You are the president of a very important company — You Inc.,” said Thomas J
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Eastern States Dominate in Winning School Grants
When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Tuesday the latest states to win the Race to the Top competition — and a share of $3.4 billion in federal financing — he said they were chosen because they outlined the boldest plans for shaking up their public school systems.
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City Seeks Partner to Open Graduate School of Engineering