State Pushes For Stricter Rules On Alternative Certification Teacher Programs
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The State Board for Educator Certification, or SBEC, which licenses teachers, is considering a new rule requiring alternative certification programs to accept only students who maintained a 2.5 grade-point average or better in college. So-called “alt-cert” teachers also would be required to go through a set amount of training hours before facing students in the [...]
Is A ‘nuanced’ Approach To Teen Sex Education Possible
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Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.
It is this group [...]
Way Too Cool For School Try Virtual Learning
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Research suggests distance education can outperform traditional classroom study. For a growing number of students, going off to class doesn’t mean sitting down at a desk in a schoolroom or lecture theatre. It takes place in the virtual world of Second Life, where school’s in at an hour that suits you - and you can [...]
Board Of Education Revamps Student Testing
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Working off the suggestions of teachers and school officials, the State Board of Education Thursday approved a host of changes to the testing system used to measure students’ skills.
Houston served as the chairman of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability - Education Journal a special panel of educators, superintendents, principals and lawmakers charged [...]
Is Technical Education Being Overlooked
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Educators at the Cabell County Career Technology Center claim their technical programs can and do provide high school students with training in industries that offer jobs with good pay.
But in most cases, getting to the level of that “good pay” will require that they attend some sort of post-secondary education, whether it be an apprenticeship, [...]
Students Honored At Best Awards Program
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The Crawford County Business/Education Advisory Council conducted its annual county-wide recognition and awards program for the Business-Education-Student-Teacher program 7 p.m. May 7 at Galion High School. Crestline High School hosted the program, which honored outstanding effort by public school students and teachers.
Selected were one under class and one upper class student from each of Crawford [...]
Deer Park: School Voters Guide 2008
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The district is proposing a budget of $94,471,150 for 2008-09, an increase of 4.83 percent over the current budget of $90,115,985.
The proposed tax levy would be 60,336,873, a 0.41 percent decrease from the current tax levy of $60,587,001.
School taxes on the average single-family house assessed at $4,000 would decrease from $6,659 to $6,632, a decrease [...]
Teen Drivers Perceived Risks Point To Gaps In Education Strategies
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Thousands of teens reveal their perceptions, experience in scientific survey
Perception does not equal reality with teen drivers according to a study released today by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance(R) in the journal Pediatrics. Using the National Young Driver Survey, researchers studied more than 5,000 9th through 11th graders from across [...]
Hamline Launches Business School Education Jobs
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Minnesota’s oldest liberal arts institution is launching a business school.
St. Paul-based Hamline University’s move to offer undergraduate business degrees, expand an existing graduate business program and open a St. Louis Park site at Interstate 394 and Minnesota Highway 100 stokes the competition in the local b-school market. It also bodes well for Hamline’s bottom line, [...]
Chefs warn on sideeffects of sushi boom
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TOKYO (Reuters) - As Japanese sushi conquers restaurants and homes around the world, industry experts are fighting the side-effects of the raw fish boom: fake sushi bars, over-confident amateurs, poisoned consumers.
Once a rare and exotic treat, seaweed rolls and bites of raw tuna on vinegared rice are now familiar to most food fans. So familiar, [...]
