News tagged with black teachers
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell Univer ...
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May 27, 2009 |
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Discovering Autism: Services go to those who fight hardest
From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Public health insurance offers insured infants better, less costly care than private plans
In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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New home movies resurrect endangered American Indian language
University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it.
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Evolutionary practices in schools can benefit at-risk students
Helping at-risk high schoolers succeed in the classroom has always been difficult. Binghamton University Professor David Sloan Wilson thinks that he has a solution: design a school program that draws upon general theories ...
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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Women making slow, sure strides in science, math
For many of the women, the chemistry lab was a home away from home - a sorority for nerds, of sorts, that hints at the slow but steady shift in technical fields that have been traditionally filled with men.
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Oct 22, 2011 |
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No cupcakes here! Gold-medal school fights obesity
(AP) -- Five-year-olds dance hip-hop to the alphabet. Third-graders learn math by twisting into geometric shapes, fifth-graders by calculating calories. And everyone goes to the gym - every day.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Buyers camp out for iPhone, though crowds smaller
Apple's latest iPhone arrived to an enthusiastic response from buyers camped out at stores Friday, but many observers noted the crowds were smaller than those that had gathered for previous releases.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Experimental science education
Science teachers and science enthusiasts alike can see the writing on the wall.
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Jul 21, 2011 |
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LA students more true to their charter schools than teachers
Teachers in Los Angeles Unified School District’s charter schools are up to three times more likely to leave their school at year’s end compared with their peers in other LAUSD schools, according ...
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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No difference in women's and men's self-esteem in youth and early adulthood, study finds
Self-esteem increases during adolescence, then slows in young adulthood, but contrary to popular belief, there is no significant difference between men's and women's self-esteem during either of those life phases, according ...
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Jul 14, 2011 |
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