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  • Boards will discuss costly school projects Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 12:44PMSchool funding for capital projects and direct services could go toward RLE The King George Board of Supervisors last week settled on four agenda items for discussion at next week’s joint meeting with the School Board. Those items were suggested by the School Board could add up to millions of dollars more to be spent by the county to fund for schools. But before more capital projects are ...
  • First Things First continues Arizona's commitment to youngest kids Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:58AMYoung children in Graham and Greenlee counties will continue to get the tools they need to have a fair start in life, thanks to more than $600,000 in contracts recommended earlier this month by the First Things First Graham/Greenlee Regional Partnership Council for fiscal year 2011.
  • Liz Willen: Cash-Starved Arizona Vaults From 40th Place to Finalist in $4 Billion Federal Competition Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:57AM(Photograph by Wing-Chi Poon) Arizona shocked the education world on Tuesday - but this time not by passing another draconian law on immigration or...
  • WikiLeaks founder's Lismore roots Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:46AMTHE Australian founder of a whistleblower website at the centre of an international furore for releasing US Afghan war documents this month grew up on the Northern Rivers.
  • Joyce Foundation Announces $15 Million in Summer 2010 Grants Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:07AMThe Joyce Foundation announced it is awarding 68 organizations more than $15 million in its summer 2010 grant making cycle. Invested in program areas including Education, Employment, Environment, Gun Violence, Money and Politics, Culture, and Special Opportunities, these funds will support new and continuing initiatives that will have an impact on states within the Great Lakes region.
  • Summer school nears end Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:01AMDistrict 7 will be wrapping up another successful summer school session on Friday.
  • Washtenaw Community College skilled trades facilities to be updated with environment in mind Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:56AMHundreds of geothermal wells, a partial grass rooftop and other changes will make their way to two Washtenaw Community College buildings used to teach the skilled trades. Those and other changes are on the way to campus, thanks to $14.8......
  • Ellen Galinsky: It's Not Just the Teacher--It's What the Teacher Teaches, Including Life Skills! Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:44AMA front-page story in the New York Times today (July 28) by David Leonhardt is provocatively titled "The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers". In what...
  • Arts series coming to La Crescent Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:28AMLa Crescent will soon be a hub for the performing arts as La Crescent-Hokah Community Education presents its first-ever Performing Arts Series at the La Crescent High School Fine Arts Center. The inaugural season includes a variety of programs that are certain to pique the interest of young and old.
  • Teacher unions fight over new sign-ups Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 10:20PMThere’s an ugly fight afoot over who gets to unionize hundreds of early childhood educators who will be working alongside teachers in kindergarten rooms this fall.
  • House Dems prep to put up to $49M toward TV ads Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:56PMWASHINGTON - Democrats reserved another wave of television advertising time on Tuesday to defend seats served by fellow lawmakers who were retiring, seeking Senate seats or among the most unlikely freshmen to win re-election.
  • Parents Get A Head Start On Back To School Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:52PMSummer vacation's almost over for the kids.Parents will be rushing to get last minute supplies and trying to find the best programs for their children.Most students look forward to school being out and summer beginning.They hang on to those lazy days when they get to sleep in and play all day with no test to study for. That's until July rolls around.Thankfully Kingsport City Schools are helping ...
  • Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:50PMAccording to a new study, students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten — and earned more as young adults.
  • Gwinnett Tech sees increase in student enrollment Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:43PMEnrollment at Gwinnett Technical College continues to grow at a blistering pace, with significant increases posted for both the summer quarter and the 2010 academic year overall.
  • HEALTHKEY Gulf Coast residents suffer mentally from the oil spill Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:39PMKelly Brewington came to the health beat a year ago after covering everything from education and government to race and immigration in her 11 years as a reporter. Since then, she has tackled stories on autism, heart failure and acupuncture used to treat drug addiction.
  • Board discusses 2010-11 budget Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:29PMA discussion on the 2010-11 budget for the Watertown Unified School District was lengthy Monday night after board of education members considered whether they should spend funds on a gifted and talented coordinator, alcohol and drug abuse coordinator and extra security at the high school.
  • Proposed day care set to get permit Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:40PMCOLOMA - The City Commission is set to approve a child care center in a residential subdivision at its August meeting.
  • Schools chief says dealing with state can be the Dickens Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:45PMIn a nod to the best- and worst-of-times comments that open the novelist's "A Tale of Two Cities," the superintendent of the DuPage County Regional Office of Education provided her semiannual update on the state of the county's schools.
  • Washington Views: Let us not forget that free enterprise makes America tick Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:06AMJust before my father died, I asked him why he kept repeating stories about his childhood and his life. He said, “So you will remember them when I am gone.” Suddenly, it sank in that there really is meaning to the phrase “out of sight, out of mind.”
  • DMACC Boone Campus athletes earn academic honors Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:52AMBOONE – Six Des Moines Area Community College Boone Campus athletes recently earned All-Region First Team Academic honors for the 2009-‘10 academic year and another 15 student athletes received second-team All-Region Academic honors.
  • Robinson: Little Vikings Day Care mismanaged Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:49AMRampant mismanagement led to deficits forcing the Cape Henlopen School District to close Little Vikings Day Care, acting district Superintendent David Robinson said.
  • Louisiana children have a hard road ahead, statistical review suggests Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:09AMAnnie E. Casey Foundation ranks Louisiana 49th in the nation in child well-being assessment
  • Democratic congressional candidate Steve Raby asks teachers for support Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:01AMMo Brooks, the Republican challenger, associated Raby with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom Brooks said he would vote to unseat if elected.
  • Ed. Dept, Civil Rights Leaders Criticize Reform Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:00AMEight Civil Rights Orgs Contend Education Dept. Promotes Ineffective Approaches for Failing Schools
  • Hannemann describes economic plan Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:43AMFormer Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann outlined yesterday a 10-point action plan to boost the state's economy if he is elected governor, including an audit of state government, securing a long-term commitment from the NFL on the Pro Bowl, restoring the Hawaii Superferry and naming a work force development czar.
  • Kids Count Report: Michigan slips to No. 30 from No. 27 in child well-being Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 5:44AMMichigan fell to 30th in the latest state-by-state ranking in the Kids Count survey.  Last year, it ranked 27th. These numbers are based on data from 2008.
  • BCC finds perfect fit at Taunton’s Friedman Middle School Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:23PMWith the school’s third change in location this year on the horizon, administrators at Bristol Community College’s satellite campus in Taunton feel that it may fit just right at a West Taunton middle school.
  • Yarbro v. Henry: Upset in the making? Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:12PMCan political upstart unseat state Senate fixture Douglas Henry? More
  • Child Advocacy Group Fosters Young Artist Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:50PMA state ward will soon be on his own after spending a record amount of time in an emergency shelter.
  • Permata to build 10 more centres in Perak Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:38PMPERAK will be getting 10 Permata Negara day-care centres by the end of this year.
  • Commenter discovers a legit excuse for dubbed foreign movies Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:02PMSure, it's clunky and declasse, but dubbing can be useful to expose children to classics.
  • Georgia study finds quality day care important to economy Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:44PMMACON, Ga. _ At first, day care quality may seem irrelevant to those without young children. But a growing understanding of early brain development, and its role in later life success, is helping the issue gain traction from the classroom to the boardroom.
  • Alaska's first Born Learning Trail dedicated Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:01PMJUNEAU - Nearly eighty individuals gathered at Project Playground on Saturday, July 17 to dedicate Alaska's first Born Learning Trail. The ribbon cutting was supplemented with a free hot dog picnic, short speeches and lots of happy-faced children.
  • Coming into his own: CU's Solder blossoms on, off field Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:48PMN ate Solder wasn't always the biggest kid in the room. Lying in the nursery in St. Anthony's hospital in Denver on April 12, 1988, he was a modest 7 pounds, 3 ounces when he was born three weeks early.
  • Poudre School District committee nears deadline for making recommendation about issue for november election Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:47PMAfter more than 60 meetings with parents, teachers and community members, the Poudre School District 2010 bond and mill levy committee is nearing its deadline to give PSD's board of education a final recommendation for a possible bond and mill levy proposal on November's ballot.
  • Permata Drawing Up Standard Operating Procedures, Says Rosmah Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:09AMIPOH, July 24 (Bernama) -- The Permata early childhood education and care programme has documented several curriculum guidelines to standardise the activities and quality of indoor and outdoor learning for the children.
  • Executive Profile: Heather Gjervik Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:14AMExecutive profile of Heather Gjervik, who runs The Children's House of Rochester, a Montessori school.
  • Miss Marion Popcorn program turning 30 Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:28AMMARION - The annual Miss Marion Popcorn scholarship program hits 30 this year and will be Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Grant Middle School gymnasium.
  • Siri Wagner awarded scholarship Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:11AMHIBBING — Siri Wagner, a 2010 Hibbing High School graduate, is the recipient of a scholarship awarded by Chapter EE, P.E.O. sisterhood of Hibbing.
  • Link Discovered Between Childhood Physical Abuse And Adult Heart Disease Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:10AMChildhood physical abuse is associated with significantly elevated rates of heart disease in adulthood, according to new findings by University of Toronto researchers, published in this month's issue of the journal Child Abuse & Neglect...
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  • North Wales Area Library ‘targeted’ by grant Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 3:13AMWhen North Wales Area Library board member Andrea Tanner found out early childhood literacy was one of the areas retailer Target focuses on for grants to community organizations, it struck a chord.
  • Goodyear teacher: Parents play big role in readying children for school Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 12:08PMParents can get their kids ready for kindergarten in several ways, according to Goddard School, an early-childhood-development center in Goodyear.
  • Fixing education through language Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 11:57AMIN SCHOOL, speaking one’s native tongue (e.g., Cebuano, Ilocano, Bicol or Waray) is still considered by many an obstacle to learning, instead of an educational resource.
  • Ralph Titus spends month helping Haiti Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 10:38AMBy Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer Ralph Titus’ family is used to the man of the house traveling around the country for extended periods of time as part of his job as an international supply chain director at Best Buy. But none of them are used to him going to a developing country following a natural disaster. read more
  • College approves $102 million budget Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 10:06AMThe Casper College District board of trustees approved thecollege's 2010-11 budget Wednesday night.
  • Pittsboro dedicated to Gordon ... and fried catfish Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 10:02AMIf you travel about 15 miles west of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, you'll come across the quaint town of Pittsboro, population maybe 3,000.
  • $1.4M grant for education gives York County's youngest a boost Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:57AMYork County's low-income families have for years had access to Head Start, an early childhood education program for preschool-age children. But there was a gap in services from the time the child was born to the time the child was eligible at age 3 for a Head Start class.
  • Child abuse appears to raise risk of heart disease Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:51AMPeople who were physically abused as children appear to have much higher rates of heart disease, new research from the University of Toronto finds, even if they have none of the known risk factors for the disease.
  • ‘I’m an advocate for all students’ Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:35AMDarcy Cosens remembers when she found her niche as an educator. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Northern Iowa when coursework with special education students sparked a passion that has never dimmed.