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Six candidates seek four seats on Allentown School Board
Six candidates, including three incumbents, are vying for four seats on the Allentown School Board. Each of the open seats are at-large, meaning none of the candidates would represent a specific region within the school district. School director Andrew...Tags: William Allen, Finance, Elections, Liberty Bell, Teaching and Learning
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BMI measuring in schools proves weighty issue
Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...
Tags: Eating Disorders, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Chicago, Family, American Heart Association
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School's parent involvement program wins award
Castle Hill Elementary School's monthly parent night programs were recently honored as recipients of a Broward County Public Schools Community Involvement Award. The Everyone Counts Family Program was honored alongside parents, volunteers, mentors, and...Tags: Castle Hill Elementary School, Broward County Public Schools, Broward County, Castle Hill, Education
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Use gypsum to build soils and buffer weather
Chicago - Ohio farmer Les Seiler has applied gypsum to his fields for the past five years. His farm is based in Fulton County, Ohio, 40 miles west of Toledo and near the Michigan border where Seiler says cold and wet spring weather is “guaranteed.”...Tags: Natural Disasters, The Ohio State University, Agricultural Research and Technology, Environmental Issues, Purdue University
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Nganje joins NDSU as chair of Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department
William Nganje has joined the North Dakota State University Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics as department chair and professor. Before joining NDSU, Nganje was an associate professor of agribusiness finance at Arizona State University'...Tags: Agriculture, Newspaper and Magazine, Colleges and Universities, Food Industry, Environmental Issues
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Bruning, Nebraska, school boosts ag education in farm country
BRUNING, Neb. (AP) - The hallway leading into Siera Meyer's classroom at the high school here is covered with posters depicting different aspects of agronomy and animal anatomy. The posters represent the work that the seven Bruning-Davenport students...Tags: Agriculture, Colleges and Universities, Agricultural Research and Technology, Animal Science, Physiology
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SDSU-IV graduates look to the future
Staff WriterCALEXICO — In a sea of black gowns, more than 290 students graduated from San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus Thursday as part of its 53rd commencement ceremony. The class of 2013 consists of 264 baccalaureate degree recipients, 10...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Education, Teaching and Learning, Adult Education, Students
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Glendale schools to take April 24 off
Glendale Unified students and teachers will have next April 24 off in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, following an agreement signed by school officials and the teachers union this week. Thousands of students of Armenian descent typically skip...Tags: Genocide, U.S. Congress, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Google Inc.
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Troubled youths deserve more effective discipline than suspension
The limits on student suspensions approved by the Los Angeles Unified school board this week may burnish the district's progressive credentials, putting L.A. in the forefront of a national shift away from zero-tolerance policies that ban kids from...
Tags: Human Interest, Entertainment Events, University of California, Los Angeles, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Center Stage premieres 'Beneatha's Place,' Kwei-Armah's answer to 'Clybourne Park'
The multifaceted issue of race continues to cling to this country. Every sign of progress in relations seems to come with an opposite move, so that it often seems as if little has ever really, fundamentally changed since the age of Jim Crow, or even...Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Teaching and Learning
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FAU president's new salary to cost taxpayers more
Mary Jane Saunders may be stepping down as president of Florida Atlantic University, but she will remain as one of the school's highest paid employees. And her new $276,000 salary will actually cost taxpayers $76,000 more. Saunders, who resigned...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Science, Florida Atlantic University, Science and Technology, Florida International University
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
Jaehyun Park, a graduating senior at Moravian Academy, was named one of approximately 550 semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The semifinalists were selected from more than 3,900 candidates on the basis of superior achievements,...Tags: Human Interest, Culture, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning
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