Making the grade in the 21st century
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Now educators are starting to look at what needs to be done to prepare students to compete in a new global economy.
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Schools in 13 English  local authorities are piloting a new way of structuring the school year which should roll-out widely from 2005.
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The BBC's Mike Baker looks at the future of school tests.
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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US eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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By LAURA CLARK  ON the outside, the Grade II listed buildings fashioned from old Devon stone suggest nothing more than a traditional village primary school.   But on the inside, the future of education is unfolding.
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By Doe, Charles  New and exciting uses of digital technology in language arts are appearing all the time-a very good thing in view of the digital nature of the lives of today's K-12 students.
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American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders&#39; scores were flat and all students
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Education and business leaders urged an overhaul of the U.S. school system, including ending high school at the 10th grade for many students. Current teaching is failing to prepare young Americans for the global economy, members of a bipartisan panel said Thursday.
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Mike Baker looks at how the language of management has begun to dominate discussions of education.
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THE BCS system has been tweaked and patched and overhauled and then tweaked some more. As was written in this same space this time last year, the year before that and the year before that
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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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By Dawn Marks, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 9--EDMOND -- The Edmond school system's technology outline for the next five years calls for putting more equipment in students' and teachers' hands.
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Mike Baker considers what has driven improvement in England's specialist secondary schools.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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An independent commission yesterday proposed dramatic changes that would shake upAmerican public education in an effort to make the nation more competitive globally. The recommendations include authorizing school districts to pay companies to run all their schools; enrolling many students in college after the 10th grade; and paying teachers about $100,000 annually....