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Glen Rock (N.J.) Schools Superintendent Announces Retirement

Verducci disclosed his decision at Monday's Board of Education meeting, having earlier informed trustees in closed session.

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NYC: Low-Income Students Won't Have to Pay More for A.P. Exams

The city’s Department of Education says it has secured enough money to allow all low-income students to pay the same amount to take the Advanced Placement exams this spring as they paid last year.

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Cincinnati Public Schools to Lay off 40, Cut Superintendent Pay

The Cincinnati Board of Education approved layoffs for 40 administrators Monday and outlined plans for an agreement to rehire Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan at about half her current salary.

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Last of Oswego Schools’ Assistant Superintendents Resigns

When the new school years begins in August in Oswego, it won’t just be the kindergartners who have a lot of new faces and names to learn.

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NC Governor Continues Drumbeat on Education Money

Gov. Beverly Perdue's verbal drumbeat in support of raising additional revenues for the public schools next year could be heard at one of the big technology companies located in North Carolina Wednesday.

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Tennessee Is Still Officially Anti-Evolution As Science Education Bill Passes

A new bill (SB 893) was approved by the Tennessee Senate that will protect teachers who wish to promote "alternate" scientific theories, essentially allowing anti-evolutionists and climate change deniers a voice in the science classroom.

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Senate Passes Jindal's Early Childhood Education Bill

The first and least controversial of Gov. Bobby Jindal's education proposals cleared the Louisiana Senate this morning, as the upper chamber voted unanimously to impose a new statewide regulatory structure on pre-kindergarten programs.

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Condoleezza Rice on Education: American Dream on Verge of Collapse

America's national security and the upward mobility the country was built upon could collapse if the education system isn't rapidly improved, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Tuesday.

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Speak Directly to Education Experts With a New Online Professional Development Tool

On May 1st, 2012, School Improvement Network will release the very first LiveBook, a new, interactive online professional development that will revolutionize the way books are published. 

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Turnitin Partners With ProQuest to Add Dissertations to the World’s Largest Plagiarism-Checking Database

Turnitin announced a partnership with ProQuest, an information company serving the global research community, to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to present in the Turnitin comparison database. 

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