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Teaching students 21st-century skills
By Scot Lehigh IF STUDENTS are to succeed in today’s complex economy, they need to know more than just English, math, science, and history. They also need a range of analytic and workplace skills. So says an important new report on 21st-century skills [PDF download…
Author: The Boston Globe
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Alzheimer test could transform diagnosis
A Belfast doctor has received a US research award for his work on the development of a blood test for Alzheimer’s, something that could transform diagnosis of the disease by Marina Murphy STEPHEN TODD of the department of geriatric medicine at Queen’s University Belfast hopes…
Author: Irish Times
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Want a Business Plan? Log on for Free Advice
By ALAN KRAUSS THE Bridgespan Group, which offers management consulting services to philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, has introduced a Web site that will make a broad array of its resources freely available online. The site, bridgespan.org, is organized into six interactive sections called learning centers.…
Author: The New York Times
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Democratic groups ready their agendas
Labor, health and other interests want a say. Party members debate whether to take a centrist course. by Janet Hook The nation’s capital woke up Wednesday to a political landscape upended by voters clamoring for change, delivering to Democrats more power than they have wielded…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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On Education: A Plan to Cut the High School Dropout Rate
by WINNIE HU HIGH school graduation rates are universally seen as a barometer of success, or failure, in education. Parents, college admissions officers, even savvy real estate agents rely on that particular statistic to tell them if a school is any good. But just as…
Author: The New York Times
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Season Of Caring: Communities in Schools
Communities In Schools is the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization by Tracey McCain High Point, NC – A growing number of students make it to high school without ever learning how to read. Educators say students typically drop out to hide their illiteracy. A Triad…
Author: digtriad.com
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The Transformer
by LINDA PERLSTEIN WHATEVER IT TAKES Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul Tough Illustrated. 296 pp. Houghton Mifflin. $26 When assessing the state of America’s children, people speak of the achievement gap between the middle class and the poor. But really…
Author: The New York Times
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Charter school group gets $2.6 million grant Educators: College-ready rolls will increase
by CYNTHIA HOWELL The Knowledge Is Power Program of charter schools in the Delta has received a $2.6 million grant to help open 10 more schools in four Arkansas towns by 2019. The schools would be patterned after the program’s Delta College Preparatory middle and…
Author: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
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Obama backs Health Care for America Now
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has signed on to the progressive Health Care for America Now campaign’s principles – a move that bolsters the clout of the nascent organization and could provide him with artillery support as he starts to pound the health-care issue on the…
Author: HCAN
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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Author: Gara LaMarche
