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• View Education headlines on HDLNS.com

  HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)

• Rosie's fifth birthday.

  Five years ago today, I gave birth to my seventh child, and second daughter.  I was 46 years old. But please don't tell my daughter - she thinks her birthday is Saturday and I want to keep it that way at least for this year! I once read in a bo (read)

• Video Inside Street View

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• Gove to axe General Teaching Council for England

  Gove plans to abolish GTC and 'reduce unnecessary bureaucracy' The government continues to press ahead with plans to cut costs and government bodies, as Education Secretary Michael Gove announced plans to abolish the General Teaching Council for Engl (read)

• A Brief History of the Pool

  Where have I been, you ask? I whisper to you the magical secret:The pool opened. What's that? you ask. I said, 'The pool opened!!!' This may seem trivial to you, but to me it's heavenly lights gleaming down and the music of angels and harps and all k (read)

• Districts' Financial Crisis Is Not the Time to Talk Reform

  The first casualty of budget instability, writes Harold J. Kwalwasser, is innovation and transformation. (read)

• High School Students Face Hard Lesson in Economics

  Extract not available. (read)

• Sony: ebooks to overtake print within five years

  Telegraph – “Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, said: “Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said within ten years but I realised that wa (read)

• Armenian church sues Getty museum over Bible pages

  AP – “The Armenian church has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return of seven pages ripped from a sacred Armenian Bible dating back to 1256. The Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America filed the lawsuit Tue (read)

• Graduating Student and Library Employee Reflects on OU History

  Note: The following post was written by Jesse Hathaway, a student employee in Alden Library. University Archives: Windows to the Past My name is Jesse Hathaway, and I am a Collections Access Assistant working in the Digital Initiatives unit of Alden (read)

• View Ohio University Yearbooks Online

  In a joint undertaking between Ohio University Libraries and the Alumni Association, the entire span of the university yearbook has been digitized for greater access to the collection. See what was happening on campus in 1892. Look up your senior ph (read)

• Extended Hours for Finals Week June 4-9

  Alden Library will keep later hours on all floors during final exam week. Fri & Sat, June 4 & 5  all floors will remain open until 9 PM. The second floor will continue to remain open until 2 AM the following morning. Sunday, June 6 the seco (read)

• Pupils clown around as circus comes to town

  Youngsters were visited by a circus to celebrate their school's 25th anniversary. Red Hill Field Primary School, in Copt Oak Road, Narborough, was visited by Fred's Flying Circus for three days last week. Several circus acts performed during the visi (read)

• Students put pressure on new Norwich Lib-Dem MP

  Extract not available. (read)

• Washington Post Wrong on Nixon, Malek, and Jews

  The whole thing could easily be dismissed as a tempest in a teapot except that a man's reputation--a good man's reputation--is at stake. (read)

• July: When Not to Go to the Hospital

  Green doctors may account for a one-month national blip in death rates. (read)

• Romanoff, Sestak Job Offer 'Bribes' Are Not Scandals

  Almost from the instant the Constitution was signed, American political leaders have dangled jobs, promotions, and just about every other inducement to reward the faithful and shape the ticket for a party's benefit. (read)

• The 4 Major Sources of Retirement Income

  Social Security and continued employment are the primary ways Americans pay for retirement. (read)

• 5 Ways to Cut the Fat from Your Grocery Bill

  Watch that price scanner, buy in bulk, and get organized. (read)

• A year of learning

  Though not a year of learning much about the Middle Ages. Sad. Because I am serving on the Committee on the Faculty, I've learned lots about the inner workings of these Colleges, especially about squeaky wheels. Because I'm on CoFac, I got seconde (read)

• Rao on Justice Ginsburg's Equality Jurisprudence

  Neomi Rao (George Mason University School of Law) has posted Gender, Race, and Individual Dignity: Evaluating Justice Ginsburg's Equality Jurisprudence (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. 1053-1084, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This (read)

• US court weighs 2 Pa. cases in which schools punished students for off-camp

  A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia has heard arguments on whether schools can discipline students for lewd, harassing or simply juvenile Internet speech posted off-campus. (read)

• High school students face hard lesson in economics

  SAN JOSE, Calif. Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn. Across the country, mass layoffs of teachers, (read)

• Court Asked If Schools Can Punish MySpace Parodies

  Extract not available. (read)

• 1 in 5 high schoolers abuse prescription drugs

  Extract not available. (read)

• Ag biotech conference to focus on health impacts of food, agriculture and n

  Leading scientists from throughout the United States will gather June 16-18 at UC Davis to identify research priorities and government policies that enhance human health through agriculture, food and nutrition. “With health care consuming so m (read)

• Librarians at BookExpo America

  From Shelf Awareness ...At the second annual Book Shout and Share panel last Thursday in New York City, seven librarians--Jason Honig, San Francisco Public Library; Robin Nesbitt, Columbus Metropolitan Library; Nora Rawlinson, EarlyWord.com; Miriam T (read)

• Kakai Kno Features Dual 14-inch Touchscreens

  The Kno ebook is targeting the textbook market. Article at Slash Gear There is also an article that mentions the Kno in the NYT. Excerpt from NYT article: You know how one thing leads to another? Well, that's what happened with Osman Rashid, the co (read)

• 'Small-town library with a big heart'

  A passionate, small-town librarian is getting a big-city honor for helping show how even a part-time library can help immigrants learn English. Karla Shafer, director of the Hooper Public Library, is getting an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  CHICAGO, IL, Jun 03 (MARKET WIRE) -- National PTA announced recently their line-up of speakers at the association's 114th National Convention to take place in Memphis (June 10-13). (Note to media: More details on convention events to come.) Topp (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  CHICAGO, IL, Jun 03 (MARKET WIRE) -- National PTA announced recently their line-up of speakers at the association's 114th National Convention to take place in Memphis (June 10-13). (Note to media: More details on convention events to come.) Topp (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - 06/03/10) - National PTA announced recently their at the association's to take place in Memphis (June 10-13). (Note to media: More details on convention events to come.) Topping the list of dignitaries, celebrities and exp (read)

• American Public Education Announces Webcast to Discuss Recently Announced P

  Extract not available. (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  GA_googleFillSlot('Press336'); GA_googleFillSlot('Press160'); CHICAGO, IL -- 06/03/10 -- National PTA announced recently their at the association's to take place in Memphis (June 10-13). (Note to media: More details on convention events to come.) Top (read)

• U.S. Needs Effective HIV Prevention, Sex Education Policies, Opinion Piece

  In the nearly three decades since HIV/AIDS emerged in the U.S., public and private organizations have 'struggled with how best to spread the message of prevention,' Connelly writes, adding that in the last decade, 'both the general population and (read)

• English is tops at Carmel

  STAFF and students at Carmel RC College in Darlington are celebrating another 'outstanding' inspection by Ofsted. A two-day visit was part of Ofsted's programme of subject survey inspections and focused on the teaching of English in the college. (read)

• Adult education 'saved my mother'

  By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Mr Cable said he believed in education for its own sake Vince Cable has spoken about how his mother's mind was saved by adult education. In his first speech as business secretary, he described how (read)

• Runcorn & Widnes Local News: Young Widnes performer seeks funding for plac

  by Daniel Mckenzie, Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News A young performer from Widnes needs to raise £65,000 to realise her dream of becoming a West-End star. Talented 16-year-old, Rebekah Mather of Beckenham Close, Widnes, has been offered a place at on (read)

• Teachers get technology guides to help students

  A skills council has launched three guides to help learners understand technology after research showed one in three people in Newcastle think it would help their working lives.A third felt they would be more efficient at their jobs, and 30% believed (read)

• In pictures: Glamorgan art students

  Students of art practice at the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff display their work in the end of year degree show from 5 to 10 June. Sian Leung from Rogerstone's ceramic work depicts the fragility and strength of the human condition. Calwyn (read)

• Exmouth education group leader snubs academy proposal

  THE CHAIRMAN of an Exmouth education group has criticised plans for schools to break away from local authority control and become academies. Tony Priest, head teacher at Lympstone Primary and chairman of the Exmouth Area Learning Community, said such (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  Extract not available. (read)

• Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at National PTA Conven

  CHICAGO, IL - (Marketwire) - 06/03/10 - National PTA announced recently their line-up of speakers at the association's 114th National Convention to take ... (read)

• American Public University to Expand Higher Education Opportunities for Wal

  CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- (Business Wire) American Public University (APU), a member institution of the accredited American Public University System (APUS), today announced an agreement with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., to enable Walmart and Sam's Club US (read)

• Okla. Court Rejects Teachers' Lawsuit Over Withheld Pay

  Extract not available. (read)

• OttoSerials from HARRASSOWITZ

  'OttoSerials, HARRASSOWITZs online management system for periodicals and standing orders, simplifies the handling of print and electronic subscriptions for libraries' (read)

• Manchester Local Image Collection (UK)

  'Manchester Local Image Collection contains over 80,000 images of Manchester and its suburbs. The original images are mainly photographs with some prints, drawings, watercolours and postcards, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. Th (read)

• Talis Open Day: Linked Data and Libraries (UK)

  Talis Open Day: Linked Data and Libraries is the latest in the series of free Talis Platform Open days which is specify for anyone interested in understanding and applying Linked Data in the world of National, International, Cooperative, and other la (read)

• 2010 Miriam Braverman Memorial prize

  The 2010 Miriam Braverman Memorial prize has been awarded to Kristen Hogan for her essay 'Breaking Secrets in the Catalog: Proposing the Black Queer Studies Collection at the University of Texas at Austin'. Ms. Hogan is currently enrolled in the Mast (read)

• Scopus gets an App

  Nature and the American Chemical Society have already done it and now Scopus has released an App for mobile searching and alerting.The press release says that:This free mobile app is specifically for existing Scopus subscribers and includes some of (read)

• Dallas Good Kid: Erick Davis of The Canterbury Episcopal School

  Erick Davis I live in School and grade: If I could travel anywhere, I would go to: If I could change one thing about my school, it would be Know a 'good kid'? Call 214-977-8466 or e-mail dfleck@dallasnews.com. (read)

• Proposed N.J. bill requires savings from wage freezes to be used to prevent

  Jerry McCrea/The Star-Ledger Supporters said the measure would remove a major roadblock for local teachers unions that had been wary of considering givebacks sought by the governor and school boards because there was no guarantee it would save collea (read)

• Nearly 50 SD County schools honored as 'distinguished'

  Four dozen elementary schools in San Diego County are among 484 schools statewide recognized today by the California Department of Education as ''2010 California Distinguished Schools.'' (read)

• California Budget Crisis Diaries: K-12 education has bigger cuts

  Amid all the hoopla surrounding college protests, a new report shows K-12 education has actually taken a larger hit. (read)

• Salm: No more education cuts

  Opinion: Budget shortfall? Slash education. Need to make up the deficit somewhere? Fire teachers, eliminate programs, increase class size. (read)

• Arizona governor signs bill targeting ethnic studies

  The measure prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group. (read)

• Obama travels to visit daughter Sasha's school

  BETHESDA, Md. President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are attending an event at the private school that 8-year-old daughter Sasha attends in suburban Maryland. Reporters who accompanied the Obamas to the site of the Sidwell Friends school in (read)

• Gillard encourages more school building

  The federal government says its school building program should not be shelved while claims of rorting in the scheme are being investigated because it is supporting jobs. One of the worst complaints concerns a tiny building at school in Western New So (read)

• Library Wars: Love and War Volume 1 - review and giveaway

  I will start out by saying that I am an unabashed fan of the Library War franchise. What is there not to love about stories where librarians fight censorship with machine guns? In Japan there are the original Library War novels, the shoujo and seinen (read)

• Affluence and influence: A study of inequities in the age of excellenc

  by Abernathy, Dixie Friend, Ed.D., East Carolina University, 2009, 264 pages; AAT 3355826Available Formats: Abstract, Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Clay in the art room

  by Hack, Samantha, M.A., State University of New York Empire State College, 2009, 28 pages; AAT 1466366Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Supplemental files, Order a copy (read)

• Closing the achievement gap in a high-performing elementary school: A

  by Soderman Roloff, Vicki, Ed.D., University of Southern California, 2009, 160 pages; AAT 3355437Available Formats: Abstract, Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Elementary students' experiences of the Accelerated Reader program in a

  by Trevino-Diaz, Benita Darlene, Ed.D., University of Houston, 2009, 110 pages; AAT 3358087Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Factors that contribute to narrowing the Achievement Gap for elementary

  by Westendorf, Mary Elizabeth, Ed.D., University of Southern California, 2009, 145 pages; AAT 3355445Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• An international, case-based, distance-learning collaboration between the U

  Finlayson� AET et al. The authors established a medical education website to deliver realtime, clinical casebased education to sites in Somaliland from the UK. The website was based on a web 2.0 social networking concept in order to recreate, as ne (read)

• Department for Education chief Caroline Wright in job switch

  The 's comms director is heading to a new role to communicate the Government's programme of cutting costs in human resources.Caroline Wright joins the 'next generation HR programme', led from the Cabinet Office. She will be conveying the programme to (read)

• Pupils' successes highlighted at speech day

  TEENAGERS' achievements were recognised during a speech day last week. Oakham School applauded the achievements of its pupils inside and outside the classroom during the speech day on Friday last week. Headteacher Nigel Lashbrook highlighted the scho (read)

• Head leads from the top to scoop Ofsted praise

  A HEADTEACHER'S 'relentless drive for improvement' has seen her school receive praise from Ofsted inspectors. The Government watchdog said Whittington Primary's Sally Wilmot had built a strong leadership team. Officials told how the managers had (read)

• ice is zojä

  zojä = ice (noun) (some things Google found for 'zojä' or 'zoja': an uncommon term; Zoja is a feminine first name that can be Czech; ZOJA Dance Studio in Wisconsin; Zoja is a last name; user names; Zoja II is the name of a ship operated by the Latv (read)

• U.S. Needs Effective HIV Prevention, Sex Education Policies, Opinion Piece

  'Now more than ever, it is politically possible for the federal government to fully support comprehensive sex education and effective public health messaging,' Web editor Phoebe Connelly writes in an opinion piece tracing the history of prevention (read)

• The Changing Face of Admission to the University of California

  UC Berkeley sara.atkins / Flickr Lynn O'Shaughnessy, author of The College Solution and Shrinking the Cost of College: 152 Ways to Shrink the Cost of a Bachelor's Degree, knows a lot about strategies for making college more affordable. This week o (read)

• If you thought that the flotilla to Gaza was about humanitarian aid, think

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• This isn't going to help Obama's reputation for openess and clean politics

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• Bradford students bring a splash of colour to home improvements

  Students at a Bradford college have unleashed their hidden super powers to help make a colourful contribution to a scheme delivering improvements to dozens of properties in the area. As Connaught Partnerships Ltd commenced work to deliver external (read)

• Google Maps, Facebook Top Mobile Apps

  Nielson found: 55% of smart phone owners download map apps 21% of all wireless subscribers in the U.S. now own smart phones. 58% of all iPhone owners used Facebook over the last 30 days. 48% used the iPod app 47% of iPhone users used Goog...Rea (read)

• Those Darn Kids: WordPress Child Themes

  cc licensed flickr photo shared by gianΩmerz I’m regretting not getting started my series on WordPress 3.0 and custom content types; a big chunk remains to be explained, but that has to wait till after a few days of vacation. But there was som (read)

• Kaplan's Online High Schools Announces Fall Admission Deadlines

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• Can Rhee and the D.C. teachers union work as partners?

  For even the best teachers, it's tough getting students to focus in the classroom when other kids are setting fires in the bathroom down the hall. That's the challenge at the District's Jefferson Middle School, where teachers said three small fires (read)

• UEA to unveil new scholarship for African students

  A new scholarship programme to give students from Africa the chance to study at the University of East Anglia will be unveiled at the university's annual Court meeting tomorrow . The grants will cover tuition fees for four African PhD students from (read)

• North Wales News: Parents take to Urdd Eisteddfod stage to protest over sch

  Eryl Roberts, of Llangwm, protests against school closures on the Urdd Eisteddfod stage THREE parents invaded the stage at the Urdd Eisteddfod yesterday to protest about controversial plans to close small, rural schools. They got onto the stage in th (read)

• Scottish Education Investment Ensures Each Local Council Would Have New Sch

  Plans for 300 million investment from the Scottish Government to deliver 35 new schools is going ahead. The first tranche of the 1.25 billion Scotland's Schools for the Future programme will see every local authority benefit. Funding will be made (read)

• News Quiz | June 3, 2010

  See what you know about the news of the day. (read)

• Word of the Day | hinterland

  This word has appeared in 24 Times articles over the past year. (read)

• Route Planning with Google Maps

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• Heat Map Creator for Google Maps

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• Techies: Inconsistent Predictors of Mainstream Success

  Chris Dixon says “techies” are inconsistent predictors of the success of new technology: A lot of people call techies 'early adopters' but I think this is a mistake: techies are only occasionally good predictors of which tech products nor (read)

• Teacher charged with indecent assaults

  A 62-year-old man has been charged with indecently assaulting two 15-year-old schoolboys more than two decades ago. The man is said to have preyed upon the boys while working as a teacher at a Catholic school in Bowral between 1983 and 1989. Detectiv (read)

• School buses collide; 9 hurt

  • Atlantic County • Camden County • Cumberland County, NJ • Gloucester County, NJ • Salem County, NJ (read)

• Gov. Christie says plan Schundler reached with NJEA caved to teachers union

  Amanda Brown/The Star-Ledger The governor also renewed his attacks on New Jersey Education Association, and said he doesnt believe his rejection of an agreement worked out by Commissioner Bret Schundler and the union will endanger the states applicat (read)

• Don't Lift the International Ban on Whaling

  The sooner we ban whale slaughter entirely and impose economic embargoes on whale-hunting nations, the better chance we will have to see whales thriving in international waters. (read)

• Exercise for Kids: 5 Tips for Parents

  How to help your children get the recommended hour of daily physical activity. (read)

• Trail Mix: Today's College News

  Wednesday's news roundup from around the world. (read)

• Elections 2010 - Polling

  Polling for the election of the President, Vice-President and Treasurer of the GSU will take place from 5pm to 7pm Wednesday 2nd and from 10am to 5pm Thursday 3rd June. Polling stations will be located on the main concourse of the Hamilton Building (read)

• College Groups Herald Release of K-12 Core Standards

  With a statement of support from a broad coalition of higher education groups, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers on Wednesday formally unveiled a set of 'common core' academic standards that, the groups (read)

• Stowa Flieger Pilot B-Uhr

  In the 1940s, only five companies made the original pilot watches: IWC, A. Lange & Söhne, Laco, Wempe and STOWA. The STOWA 'Fleiger' was one of the original pilot watches. It is believed that A. Lange & Sohne, a principal supplier of th (read)

• Funny exam answers

  'Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.' To this question, set on a physics paper, one student replied: 'Tie a long string to the barometer, then lower it to the ground. The height of the building is the length of t (read)

• Teacher charged over assaults

  A 62-year-old man has been charged with indecently assaulting two 15-year-old schoolboys more than two decades ago. The man is said to have preyed upon the boys while working as a teacher at a Catholic school in Bowral between 1983 and 1989. Detectiv (read)

• Taught 10 Year Old Son to Make Chicken Fajitas

  My ten year old has been asking to have chicken fajitas for dinner for over a week. We have either been too busy or have been eating dinners elsewhere. Last night he insisted on it. My reply was, 'If you want them, you can make them.' He re (read)

• Law’s Titles

  It’s been a busy summer so far, with a presentation at LSA under my belt, and lots of research still to come.  But I’ve been distracted of late with a pesky pedantic thought: which jobs that lawyers can aspire to create titles which surv (read)

• Bankrupt States

  First I want to note that we still don’t have an opinion in Bilski.  You would think that means the opinion will either be deeply theorized or incredibly fractured.  Tune in again next week to see if it comes out then.  Now on to the main po (read)

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