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School Incentives for Installing Solar-Power Systems
School districts across the country take advantage of incentives for mounting solar panels.
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Would you encourage students to protest education budget cuts?
Many students are up in arms about looming funding losses and teacher layoffs.
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Pop Quiz: America Ferrera
The star of Ugly Betty talks about her role as Save the Children's artist ambassador for education.
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Parent Essay: Switching Schools
Don't be afraid to move your child to another school -- and don't expect miracles.
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Improving School Communication with Google
Does your school speak Google? If not, you might want to give these great tools a try.
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Teacher Travel Tip: Cuba
Cut off from much of the non-Communist world for the last fifty years, the island's politics, commerce, and culture offer lessons to learn.
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Does technology help students' social skills, or hurt them?
Kids today socialize through many different media, but socializing doesn't necessarily equate with building social skills.
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Teaching Tolerance: Meet the Teacher Who Started Gay-Straight Alliances
Teacher Bob Parlin launched the first gay-straight alliance in a public school. Today, this national network provides a powerful dose of social and emotional learning for students of every orientation.
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Who impacts a student's education more –- parents or teachers?
Recent proposals underscore how much educators are given the credit (or the blame) for student achievement.
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How Global Language Learning Gives Students the Edge
Learning foreign languages boosts brain development, bridges cultural connections, and gives us an economic edge. So why isn't it a priority in public schools?
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Are school bans on hugging justified?
Some schools have set time limits on hugs, while others have banned them altogether.
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What will online learning look like in 20 years?
Virtual education is expanding but has its challenges.
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Should teacher unions support their state's Race to the Top efforts?
Unions that oppose key reforms have refused to sign on.
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Children Create the Playground of Their Dreams
Seattle students design commanding castles and slithery slides, then watch their sketches come alive.
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Teachers Shake Up Shakespeare with Digital Media
Rap and film bring the Bard's characters to life.
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10 Takeaway Tips for Social and Emotional Learning
The Louisville, Kentucky, school district demonstrates SEL strategies that work.
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How should schools observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
There's still no consensus on how best to honor the slain civil rights leader.
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Do you support the Common Core State Standards Initiative?
The standards are intended to improve education, but not all states are signing on.
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Mixed Media: The Edutopia Guide to the Educational and the Entertaining
What's on our radar -- everything from books to DVDs to software.
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Community-Based Assessment Makes the Grade
In scoring student performance, top marks go to teachers rather than the testing industry.
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