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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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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 28 April 2012 Vancouver, BC, Canada. Analytic thinking can increase disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief.
"Our goal was to explore the fundamental question of why people believe in a God to different degrees," says lead author and psychologist Will Gervais, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
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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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Christine Vestal (Stateline) Monday, 09 April 2012 |
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Thursday, 05 April 2012 Boise, ID, USA. The Idaho schools superintendent proposes new classroom technology and teacher performance pay, while eliminating collective bargaining and tenure.
Idaho's Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna and Idaho Governor Butch Otter, who once shared lodging when Luna worked for the U.S. Education Department and Otter was a congressman, came together again last year
to successfully back a series of education changes in the state.
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 Maggie Clark (Stateline) Wednesday, 04 April 2012 Washington, DC, USA. State and federal lawmakers continue to push for fewer gun restrictions despite a national conversation surrounding recent incidents of gun violence.
Recent school shootings in Ohio and California, and the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida have increased the scrutiny of state gun laws, but state legislators across the country continue to work on scaling back gun restrictions this session.
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 Jim Malewitz (Stateline) Friday, 30 March 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Federal budget cuts worry state officials who depend on aid to help combat cancer-causing radon gas, naturally produced as uranium decays in soil.
A dry cough, a small pain in her shoulder blade it was probably just allergies, Liz Hoffmann thought before a doctor’s visit in 2003. But a chest X-ray soon told a different story. A 5-centimeter mass was growing in her left lung.
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 Ben Wieder (Stateline) Thursday, 29 March 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Legislators in Georgia want to create charter schools without local approval, but in New Jersey they want slow down the process by requiring local consent.
The crucial education debates in Georgia and New Jersey this year haven’t all centered around money. To a great extent, they have centered around power: Who has the power to create new charter schools?
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Cleveland, OH, USA. For those people with some belief in God, but question God's actions or inactions, is it appropriate to lodge a protest? A team of psychologists decided to examine the question.
Many people report having a relationship with God, similar to those relationships in marriage, parenting or friendship. Findings suggest that being assertive with God could actually strengthen that perceived bond and one's faith.
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Melissa Maynard (Stateline) Wednesday, 21 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Monday, 19 March 2012 |
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Ben Wieder (Stateline) Saturday, 17 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Thursday, 15 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 14 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 13 March 2012 |
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Maggie Clark (Stateline) Monday, 12 March 2012 |
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