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Clara Lazen, Ten-Year-Old Fifth Grader, Discovers New Molecule (VIDEO)
Now that Clara Lazen of Kansas City, Mo. has been published in a major chemistry journal, she can set her sights on a new goal: graduating elementary school. How did… Read more
NJ Teacher Wins National Award for her Work Supporting Military Children
Ryan Barron, Laura Dougherty, Thomas Dougherty (Chief Petty Officer USCG Retired), Terry Dougherty, Tom Dougherty at the White House Mrs. Terry Dougherty is a third grader teacher at Roland Rogers… Read more
State Capitol Becomes Teachers’ Lounge
California Common Cause recently released its 2011 Campaign Finance & Lobbying Industry Report and the numbers are truly ghastly. Special interest groups have spent almost $2.7 billion in lobbying alone… Read more
Sallie Mae to Change Forbearance Fee Policy
Score two for online consumer advocates — or, as they might be called, Occupy Online. On Thursday, three months after Bank of America backed down from imposing a $5 monthly… Read more
Media, district levy advocacy not appropriate, not leadership
By Laurie H. Rogers – “And I tell you this: you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it’s usually called… Read more
Milwaukee School of Engineering to offer tuition-free master’s degrees
In these lean times, the Milwaukee School of Engineering is offering a deal: Buy one degree, get a second degree free. Starting next fall, students who graduate with an MSOE… Read more
At Last, a Good Failing-Schools Voucher
by Greg Forster – Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is pushing a very ambitious education reform plan that includes a big failing-schools voucher. In general, I’m a skeptic of failing schools… Read more
Arlene Ackerman, Ousted Philadelphia Superintendent, Denied Unemployment Bid
PHILADELPHIA — The state has denied the unemployment claim filed by the ousted former head of Philadelphia’s public school system after she received a $900,000 contract buy-out. Arlene Ackerman says… Read more
Money pours into Komen Foundation.
Within 48 hours of news breaking that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation was cutting grants to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for its breast-cancer screening program,… Read more
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