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ATLANTA – Groups hoping to open charter schools across the country could soon have millions more dollars available. The Charter School Growth Fund is announcing a $160 million fundraising campaign Wednesday — the largest-ever aimed at helping start more of the nontraditional public schools nationwide. The goal is to establish 335,000 more spots for children at charter schools in the next decade
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Mark Zuckerberg , chief executive and a founder of Facebook , has agreed to donate $100 million to improve the long-troubled public schools in Newark, and Gov. Chris Christie will cede some control of the state-run system to Mayor Cory A. Booker in conjunction with the huge gift, officials said Wednesday.
The decade after high school graduation is filled with lots of dreams. Then real life sets in — and sometimes turns those plans upside down
The British International School of New York offers spacious waterfront classrooms, small computers encased in rubber for small people who tend to drop them, and a pool for the once-a-week swimming classes required for all students. But there is nothing within its halls or on its Web site that indicates what differentiates British International from the teeming masses of expensive private schools in New York: It is run for profit
The difference between the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Applied Engineering and Technology Library and other science-focused libraries is not that its on-site collection is also available electronically.
Educate to Innovate : President Obama has launched the “Educate to Innovate” effort to improve U.S. students’ participation and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Money can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime.
Some professors believe Wikipedia has no place in the footnotes of a college paper. But could it have a place on the syllabus