Education Notebook: Mann Middle student to attend leadership academy
Big Country education tidbits.
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Arne Duncan, charter schools, Education Issues...
2 Preferred sources
Education Week, The Washington Post
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Arne Duncan
Honadel wants rushed law to keep hikers from N. Wisconsin iron mine drilling
Photo credit Pete Rassmusen I read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story “Republican lawmakers want to act quickly to restrict access to mine site” ...
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Arne Duncan
AM News: Slow Internet, Quick IB Expansion
Arne Duncan Calls Slow School Internet 'Morally Unacceptable' U.S. News & World Report: Education Secretary Arne Duncan (L) and HHS Secretary ...
The Ron Johnson Facts of Life
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., shared his three top keys to succeeding in life, two of which involve sex and ...
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Arne Duncan
Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option
WASHINGTON — The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said ...
Education Department still has vacancies in many key positions
With the president's second term now well under way, many key vacancies remain in the Obama administration's higher ed policy making team.
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Arne Duncan
GOP slams Dems' education proposal as federal power grab
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., says Democrats' plan to reauthorize Elementary and Secondary Education Act creates "national school board" by ...
Commission to propose 5-point plan to speed introduction of digital learning in US classrooms
WASHINGTON — A week after President Barack Obama’s call for U.S. schools to be outfitted with high-speed Internet within five years, an independent ...
Arne Duncan Calls Slow School Internet 'Morally Unacceptable'
The Secretary of Education wants school systems to have networks with broadband speeds up to 120 mbps.
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Cable Show 2013: Cable Can Help Drive Education Revolution
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Students Fly High at Aviation High School
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Arne Duncan
Educational requirements of NCLB ease in Senate panel’s rewrite
By The Associated Press, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday finished its sweeping rewrite of No Child Left ...