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Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on...
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Baby’s Death Renews Debate Over a Circumcision Ritual Prosecutors are investigating the death of a newborn boy who died in September after contracting herpes through a controversial practice of ritual...
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Win Up to $500 in the Elmer’s Teacher Tool Kit Grant Program
The Kids In Need Foundation, a non-profit with the mission to provide free school supplies to students in need, has partnered with Elmer’s Products Inc. for its second annual teacher grants program....
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Smoking and Drinking May Not Harm Male Fertility Researchers at the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield in the U.K. say that doctors might want to reconsider their advice to...
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To Earn Classroom Certification, More Teaching and Less Testing New York and up to 25 other states are moving toward changing the way they grant licenses to teachers, de-emphasizing tests and written...
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School’s Out?
While cramming your child’s backpack with freshly sharpened pencils, unopened glue sticks, and clean notebooks in preparation for the starting school year, you can’t help but be giddy thinking of all...
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Exclusive Survey: Are You Happy With Your Child’s School?
A couple of weeks into the new school year, how are you feeling about your child’s teacher and classes? Compare your thoughts to the answers 500 moms gave Parents in our exclusive partnership with the...
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Teachers With Poor Ratings Clustered In NYC, Charter School Quality: Ed Today The New York Daily News takes another look at the StudentsFirstNY teacher distribution report and finds something...
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Teacher Survey Shows Record Low Job Satisfaction in 2012 As school districts continued to cut budgets, increase class sizes, and implement teacher performance evaluations, teachers’ job satisfaction...
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Infant mortality rate in US drops again The infant mortality rate in the United States declined again in recent years after reaching a plateau in the early part of this century, according to a new...
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Skype in the classroom forges student connections
If you or your kids have friends or relatives in far away places, it’s likely that you’ve used Skype or another video-conferencing program to connect and catch up from the comfort of your computer....
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Parents Goody Giveaway: Enter for a Chance to Win a $100 Target Gift Card...
By Caitlin Ultimo One school supply company wants to make more of an impact this fall. Yoobi, a brand that will also be exclusively at Target stores, not only wants to offer up fun designs including...
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