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Ben Wieder (Stateline)
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Monday, 14 May 2012
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Muncie, IN, USA. Several states made controversial changes to the evaluation, pay and retention of teachers, claiming improved teaching quality and student performance.
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 Carla Uriona, Mary Mahling and Josh Goodman (Stateline) Friday, 04 May 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Same-sex marriage supporters won big victories in state courts and state capitals in recent years. Now they hope to extend that success to the ballot box.
Thirty-three times since 1998, states have voted on gay marriage ballot measures. Thirty-two of those times, opponents of gay marriage have won.
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Wednesday, 02 May 2012 Phoenix, AZ, USA. State support for public universities can't keep up with enrollment growth and inflation, so at least 20 states raised tuition to cover educational costs.
Arizona has led the nation in tuition increases over the past 5 years. Next year, the cost will be frozen in the face of heightened attention to college affordability. Is tuition growth slowing?
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 Pamela M. Prah (Stateline) Monday, 30 April 2012 Washington, DC, USA. You might expect that WIC, a federal program to help needy mothers buy food for their children, would see increased participation, but the opposite is true.
There isn’t one answer to explain the recent decline in the number of women and young children in the WICS program, which the government officially calls the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Monday, 23 April 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Despite enthusiasm for digital textbooks at the national level, states have been slow to get on board. But the movement is gaining strength.
Digital textbooks have gotten a lot of ink in recent months. In January, Apple attracted attention when it announced its foray into the field with the iBook, a multimedia-rich textbook for the iPad produced by the biggest educational publishers and costing less than $15.
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 10 April 2012 East Lansing, MI, USA. A group of scientists and educators propose adoption of 8+1 Science, arguing it is a necessary approach to improving how American students learn science.
The 8+1 Science program would move K-12 schools away from memorizing scientific facts and focus students on understanding eight fundamental science concepts. The "plus one" is inquiry, a fundamental part of science, that asks why things happen around us.
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Ben Wieder (Stateline) Thursday, 05 April 2012 |
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Maggie Clark (Stateline) Wednesday, 04 April 2012 |
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Ben Wieder (Stateline) Thursday, 29 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 26 March 2012 |
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 Melissa Maynard (Stateline) Wednesday, 21 March 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Gay marriage wouldn’t have passed in the Washington State Legislature this year without Governor Chris Gregoire’s decision to reverse course and push for it.
Legislators’ personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by Republican Representative Maureen Walsh’s passionate floor speech about her desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played a major role. The speech went viral on YouTube.
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Saturday, 17 March 2012 Des Moines, IA, USA. When Iowa Governor Terry Branstad stumped recently for increased higher education funding to keep down tuition, he was doing so in direct opposition to fellow-Republican legislators who control the state House of Representatives.
It didn’t worry him.
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 Maggie Clark (Stateline) Monday, 12 March 2012 New York, NY, USA. On a recent Thursday afternoon in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, in the South Bronx, five 16- and 17-year-old boys met outside the Bronx Criminal Court building to complete court-mandated community service.
After appearing before a judge for nonviolent offenses such as shoplifting and graffiti, they’d been assigned to Bronx Community Solutions, an alternative sentencing organization attached to the criminal court, for an afternoon of cleaning up the sidewalks around a recrea
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Monday, 05 March 2012 Crestview, FL, USA. Florida Governor Rick Scott urged legislators to put back $1 billion toward K-12 education after making severe budget cuts last year. Educators appreciate the help, but say they will still be struggling in 2013.
Declining property taxes contributed to a $1.3 billion statewide cut to education last year, Republican Governor Rick Scott’s first year in office. Now Scott wants to put money back into education.
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 01 March 2012 Los Angeles, CA, USA. Diversity is a goal for all sorts of institutions but what it means may depend on who you ask. A study finds the role of ideology in helping people determine what they count as diverse.
Miguel Unzueta notes that historically it meant inclusiveness toward historically disadvantaged groups. Now the term is commonly used for people who are different in any way (even personality traits and food preferences). That, he argues, may render the concept useless.
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 28 February 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 27 February 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Friday, 24 February 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Friday, 03 February 2012 |
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Maggie Clark (Stateline) Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 28 January 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Saturday, 28 January 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Friday, 27 January 2012 |
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Maggie Clark (Stateline) Friday, 27 January 2012 |
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Ben Wieder (Stateline) Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
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