Four seek two seats on Board of Education (Ventura County Star)
Funding lobbyists, curbing high school dropout rates, expanding vocational education programs and increasing accountability have emerged as key issues in the races for two open seats on the Ventura County Board of Education. Four candidates are running in the two district races to be decided Nov. 4.
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1st District race: McAuliffe, Richter on transit, state budget (Everett Herald)
The race between state Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell, and Republican challenger Dennis Richter pits an experienced hand against a fresh face. Richter, 57, also of Bothell, is an electrical engineer at Boeing in Everett who has never before run for office.
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Education ideas there, but attention isn’t (The Lima News)
LIMA - Economic and energy concerns have left little room in this presidential election for another domestic policy "E": education.
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Graduands Urged To Add Quality To Society (Mmegi)
The University of Botswana (UB) Vice Chancellor, Professor Bojosi Otlhogile has challenged new graduates to improve the quality of life in society.
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Harris County School Board seeking to fill District Two seat (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
The Harris County School Board of Education is now accepting resumes from residents interested in applying to fill the vacated seat in District Two.
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Service learning is vital to education (Loyola Maroon)
Service learning is vital to education Loyola's liberal arts common curriculum can get overwhelming at times. Professors challenge students to think about lofty, esoteric ideas like religion and philosophy every day. We have to analyze history and biology, and students gravitate to majors like English and economics.
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MOLLIE GRATZ:Communiversity classes at Ole Miss-Tupelo offer range of learning opportunities (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
"Oh! This learning, What a thing it is." As high school freshmen in Winston-Salem, N.C., my class and I embraced this philosophy of William Shakespeare as the theme and slogan of our first year at Salem Academy.
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Voters say they will vote on substance, not to make history (The Pantagraph)
ON THE ISSUES: Race BLOOMINGTON -- For many voters, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin represent an expanded view that comes with the potential election of the first black president or female vice president.
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‘Star’ teacher turns girls on to science (The Advocate)
The trial-and-error of the scientific method is no abstraction in Linda Messina’s biology classes at the all-girls St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge. It’s a philosophy for life.
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Middle school for boys part of single-sex education trend (Baltimore Sun)
The boys in the seventh-grade classroom wave their hands wildly and squirm in their seats, unable to contain their joy in a competition involving singular and plural nouns. Their teacher seems undaunted by the outbursts of cheering.
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