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Sleepless Kids Become Fat Adults

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Children, Health, Insomnia, Schools, Obesity, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep, Teenagers, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

A new study shows that sleep makes for a proper balance of hormones related to appetite, hunger, metabolism, and even fat retention.

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McCain Selling Discredited "Magic" of the Market as School Solution

Erika Szostak | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Public Schools, Education, John McCain, Election 2008, Education Reform, Schools, Mike Rose, Public Education, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Home News
Erika Szostak

In an exclusive interview, a UCLA Graduate School of Education Professor discusses the differing educational policies of the presidential candidates. McCain stresses school choice and "educational mobility" while Obama talks about expanding the overall education budget.

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Extreme Disparities in School Funding are Promoting Inequality

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Public Education, Schools, School Funding, Politics News
Rep. Mike Honda

The substantial differences in funding between schools prevents too many children in poor areas from realizing their potential, leading to ever more economic inequality in our society.

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Still Time for Schools to Help Register Seniors

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Public Schools, Rock the Vote, Schools, Politics News
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

This election year, young people have shown great interest and excitement in our political process. We should make sure we help stimulate that interest

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Our Union: Fostering Reform To Improve Schools

Randi Weingarten | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Randi Weingarten, Aft, Schools, Teachers, Teaching, Students, Politics News
Randi Weingarten

Good teachers usually have good ideas about what it takes to better their schools, help other teachers, or improve education across their communities. But turning those good ideas into reality isn't easy.

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"Off The Bus": Inside A Parent's Head on the First Day of School

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 09.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Parenting Tips, Elementary School, Parenting, Schools, School, Parenting Advice, Education in America, Happiness, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

The night before the first day of school was always the longest night of my life. I'd lie wide awake for hours, wondering about my locker location, ...

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Fulfilling the Promise of Real School Improvement: Beyond the False Choices

Randi Weingarten | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Education, Schools, Dnc, “I Have a Dream” Speech, Democratic National Convention, Denver Convention, Barack Obama, Politics News
Randi Weingarten

Barack Obama understands what it will take to improve our schools, turn around our economy, and he knows that teachers and unions are part of the solution, not part of the problem.

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What Do Future Voters Think about the Presidential Candidates?

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 08.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Democratic Convention, Elections, National Writing Project, Education, School Opening, Writing, Barack Obama Joe Biden, Obama, Schools, Teachers, Living News
Esther Wojcicki

Tthe National Writing Project together with Google Docs is sponsoring a program called Letters to Our Next President, to encourage young Americans to write to the candidates.

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School's Coming -- Got Your List?

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Schools, Shopping, Economy, Fall Shopping, Humor, Back to School, Living News
Jeffrey Shaffer

During the past decade, while scrambling to fill for Back to School requirements, I became aware of an intriguing fact: The List is the same everywhere. Why have conspiracy theorists not jumped onto this bandwagon?

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Home Economics

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 07.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Jamie Lee Curtis, Education, Schools, Skills, Home Economics, Children, Living News
Jamie Lee Curtis

We are Americans and we are getting an F in educating our children. Wake up and smell the global competition. We need to let our elected leaders know that education is the most important issue in this election.

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Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, George W. Bush and Iran, Writers, Poets, Novelists, Diplomacy, PEN American Center, Schools, Iranian Culture, Iranian Literature, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.

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Are Cuba's Schools Better than Ours?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Test Scores, Schools, Cuba, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Maybe we could learn something from the Cubans about the rights we deny many of our children -- a safe environment, decent health care, and schools that guarantee them high levels of learning

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Two Million Minutes Takes a Lifetime to Endure

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Change, India, Education, Schools, Education Reform, China, Entertainment News
Gerald Bracey

Toward the end, when the Indian or Chinese kids were on the screen, I wanted to yell at it: "Get a Life!" Not as a put-down, but as a wake up call.

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Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Politics, Schools, Families, Children, Consensus, Peter Breggin, Health, Social Control Parenting, Psychiatric Drugs, Lobotomy, Civil Rights, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.

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Low Math and Science Achievement: Does Not Computebracey

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Mathematics, Science, Schools, Intel, Living News
Gerald Bracey

One of the reasons that public schools are held in low esteem is that their successes are not celebrated.

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Creationism In US High Schools: 16 Percent Of US Science Teachers Are Creationists

Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Intelligent Design, Darwin, Creationism, Science Teachers Creationism, Biology, Science, Theory of Evolution, Schools, Living News

ABC News reports on the findings of a study that concluded 16% of U.S. science teachers are Creationists, and that, disturbingly, one in eight are tea...

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Oil Tax Defeated, School Budget To Be Cut -- What You Can Do

Dave Johnson | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Taxes, Education, Schools, Budget, California, Politics News
Dave Johnson

The people of California need to understand that a choice was made yesterday to continue to be the only state that allows oil companies to pump our oil and not pay anything for it.

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Choices on Taking and Giving Back

Dave Johnson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Taxes, Education, Schools, Budget, California, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Today in California we are facing a budget shortfall. And instead of asking oil companies and others to give back a bit we are on the verge of deciding instead to cut our school budget.

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A Line In The Sand -- Stop Cutting School Budgets

Dave Johnson | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Education, Schools, Budget, California, Tax Cuts, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a "fiscal emergency" and is asking the legislature to solve the problem entirely with budget cuts.

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Is U.S. Education Better Than Ever?

Diane Ravitch | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Education, David Kearns, Department of Education, Gerald Bracey, Public Education Reform, PISA, Schools, Public Education, Sandia Report, Politics News
Diane Ravitch

What was the Sandia report and why does it matter? And how did I allegedly conspire to "suppress" it?

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Supreme Court Decision Cheered by Parents of Learning Disabled/Disabled Children: Is the Media Missing the Point?

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Children With Learning Disabilities, Supreme Court, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Education, Tom F., Learning Disabilities, Schools, New York City, Nylpi, Politics News
Linda Cronin-Gross

Instead of moaning about people suing the school system, what if the City's Department of Education created a couple of schools for children with disabilities modeled on the private schools' success?

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