Gov. Christie lent guarded support to a bill introduced by Democratic legislative leaders Monday that would dramatically reshape higher education in New Jersey by drawing Rutgers-Camden closer to Rowan University and by breaking up the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
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6/5/2012
The nation's school districts are turning up their noses at "pink slime," the beef product that leaped into the news earlier this year.
6/5/2012
Oregon's state schools Superintendent Susan Castillo announced Monday that she'll be quitting at the end of the month to take a job at a national education nonprofit. Castillo's departure --2 1/2 years before her term ends -- eliminates a state elected office and gives Gov. John Kitzhaber unprecedented control over education in Oregon.
6/5/2012
Arne Duncan, the United States secretary of education, said that the country was lagging far behind its international competitors, and that he supported New York’s efforts to implement a reform agenda.
6/5/2012
Hours before the state Court of Appeals was set to consider a lawsuit challenging limits lawmakers placed on North Carolina's public school pre-kindergarten program, the General Assembly on Tuesday pulled back from some of the changes.
6/5/2012
Students in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties performed below the state average in all but one grade level on the reading, math and science FCAT exams.
6/5/2012
With the nearest speech language pathologist more than 30 miles away in the town of Chico, the Glenn County Special Education Local Plan Area turned to PresenceLearning to provide adequate coverage for their students needing services.
6/5/2012
Hatch and Teaching Strategies, LLC have partnered to align Hatch’s iStartSmart computer learning system with Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system.
6/5/2012
The Rhode Island Association of School Committees has endorsed eBOARD as a tool to help school system leadership teams work more efficiently in aligning their limited resources and time with their strategic plans, meetings, policies and evaluations.
6/5/2012
Tales2Go, the leading provider of streaming audio books for kids, is pleased to announce it has been selected as a finalist by Cynopsis Media for their 2012 Kids !magination Award for Best Educational App.
6/5/2012
Adaptive Curriculum, a web-based concept mastery solution that strengthens math and science performance, has been selected as a key content provider for a new blended learning model that will be implemented at Kramer Middle School next school year.
6/5/2012
OverDrive Read provides instant eBook access on tablets, smartphones and computers to connect readers with books, authors and booksellers.
6/5/2012
Through the Ready, Steady, GO! Program, 99 teachers in 28 states received grants of $100 to $500 to conduct innovative, hands-on learning projects in their classrooms.
6/5/2012
Starting in the 2013–14 school year, all public kindergarten classrooms in the Kentucky will use the screener to determine students’ current level of performance and support student learning through developmentally appropriate educational instruction informed by screening results.
6/4/2012
The Bronx teacher accused of having sex with an underage student in 1995 — and busted last week for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old — wouldn’t have still been in the classroom if the city just gave its schools chief more power, officials said yesterday.
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