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Award-winning teachers dole out advice on fixing public schools PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Stephanie Chen - CNN   
Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Article Source: CNN

(CNN) -- What if students attended school all year? One Wisconsin teacher thinks that could be a way to improve student grades and fix the nation's public school system.

Almost every teacher has thoughts on how to improve schools. So this month, as students began to trickle into classrooms, CNN listened to the ideas of award-winning teachers at public schools across the country.

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School nutrition: Healthier ingredients, more education for 2010-11 PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo - CS Monitor   
Monday, 23 August 2010

Article Source: CS Monitor

School nutrition has advanced for the 2010-11 school year as parents, children, and government programs push healthy menu options.

Schools searching for ways to improve school nutrition are starting to get sneaky."Replace three-quarters of the fat in baked goods with pureed beans and the kids don’t even notice!” according to a tip from an awarding-winning elementary school in Idaho.

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School bullying summit's big hope: an anti-bullying tipping point PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Amanda Paulson - CS Monitor   
Friday, 13 August 2010

Article Source: CS Monitor

The Department of Education convened its first summit on school bullying Wednesday. It comes as state lawmakers nationwide step up their efforts to pass anti-bullying laws.

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Senate approves funding to keep 140,000 teachers' jobs PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo - CS Monitor   
Monday, 09 August 2010

Article Source: CS Monitor

Senators approved $10 billion in funding Thursday that will keep 140,000 teachers' jobs. The House, which is being called back from August recess by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is expected to approve the funding next week.

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Sticks And Straw Out of Our Schools PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Badylon K. Bakiman - InterPress Service   
Thursday, 05 August 2010

Article Source: InterPress Service

KIKWIT, DR Congo, Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) - Led by the local church, residents of Gungu administrative zone, in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have used their own resources to transform the conditions in which their children study.

Since 1998, the "Chase sticks and thatch from our schools" has gradually replaced fragile structures across the district, 200 kilometres from Kikwit, capital of the province of Bandundu, with buildings of stone or adobe bricks, roofed with corrugated iron sheets. The project's stated aims are to "give human value to often-neglected rural schools...

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