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Opinion: Accelerated Education, Taken to the nth Degree

The big news out of New York City is that the admissions test for the city’s gifted kindergarten programs is about to get tougher.

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Rubio’s DREAM Puts Mitt in a Bind

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has thrust himself into the raging illegal immigration debate, proposing a plan that would create a path to legal status for children of illegal immigrants.

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Missouri Senate Passes Education Overhaul Legislation

Struggling school districts in Missouri could see significant changes under two pieces of education legislation passed by the Missouri Senate.

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Texas Education Board Grapples with Loss of Power Over Textbooks

The Texas State Board of Education, long the gatekeeper to the enormous textbook market in Texas, has lost control over which materials enter public school classrooms.

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Teachers Walk Fine Line With Students on Facebook

Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social networking.

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Providing rigor and college readiness for all students


Florida district promotes educational equity with help from College Board’s SpringBoard program for English and math

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Going BYOD? The case for virtualizing your wireless network


View this webcast to hear a case study from New Jersey's Sterling High School on its virtualized WLAN implementation

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P21 Welcomes LEGO Education’s Stephan Turnipseed as Strategic Council Member

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the leading national organization advocating for 21st century readiness for every student, welcomes Stephan Turnipseed, President, LEGO Education North America, as a strategic council member. 

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NovaNET Courseware Helps ELLs, Struggling Readers Build Literacy Skills With Texthelp’s Text-to-Speech Technology

NovaNET Courseware is now speech-enabled with Texthelp Systems’ SpeechStream, an intuitive text-to-speech toolbar that gives students the ability to read while hearing text read aloud by a high-quality, digitized human voice. 

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ClassLink’s LaunchPad Named CODiE Award Finalist for Instructional and Virtual Desktops

Leader in web and cloud-based educational solutions, ClassLink announces its nomination in four major 2012 CODiE award categories for its LaunchPad solution. 

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