Home schooled kid wins national geography competition
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Blog: A home-schooled girl named Caitlin Snaring this week became the second girl to win a national competition, making her the most recent in a string of contests dominated by children who were educated outside state-run schools.
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LAPEER, Mich. - A high school student who made a dress out of candy wrappers has claimed a top award in an art competition.
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By Bao Ong, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 17--MENDOTA HEIGHTS -- Jennifer Christensen's dream to navigate celestial bodies of the final frontier is far-fetched for a suburban teacher.
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By MIKE BAILEY  Tiffani Pekkala thought her essay and pennant design highlighting space exploration would simply earn extra credits in her science class at Camas' Liberty Middle School.
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A SCIENCE teacher from Powys has completed a prestigious school teacher fellowship at Cambridge University, and learned first hand that science is moving forward at an unprecedented pace.
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PARIS High school students in Hong Kong, Finland and South Korea do better in mathematics than those in any other country, according to a new international comparison of mathematical skills among 15-year-old students from 40 countries.
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MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia -- Nora McNulty, a Scottish grandmother, began climbing the hill at 5:50 a.m., having traveled 1,300 miles in search of something hard to find at home.
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Artist Jeremy Deller has been named the winner of this year&#39;s Turner Prize for his work &#39;Memory Bucket&#39;. &#39;Memory Bucket&#39; is a mixed media installation about US President George W Bush&#39;s hometown of Crawford, Texas.
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By CAROLYN CHURCHILL  ONE of the pioneers of space exploration touched down in Scotland yesterday as part of a project which promotes science to schoolchildren.
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By Amy Jeter, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 3--Last spring, 50 third-graders took the history Standards of Learning exam at Norfolk's Dreamkeepers Academy at J.J. Roberts Elementary School.   More than half of them received a 600, the highest score possible.
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By Tara M. Manthey, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 23--Erica Palmer imagined she was making a presentation to her grandmother, not the governor.   The sixth-grader held that picture in her head as she explained Spanaway Elementary School's gardening project to Gov.
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By LUCY LYNCH, Education Reporter  EVERYONE'S gone green at Burton Green CE Primary School, near Coventry.  They have just achieved a bronze "eco schools" award in a scheme run by Encams, which oversees the Keep Britain Tidy campaign.
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KANAIPUR, India  - Every morning 10-year-old Indian villager Nipa Haldar crosses a canal in a small boat and trudges along a mud road for 20 minutes to reach school, pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse.
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EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Michal McDowell is a sophomore at the International High School of Indiana. Last summer, she traveled to South Africa with her mother, Jennifer Drobac, a board member
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SALT LAKE CITY - A 9-year-old Utah boy won a national championship in a sport he doesn't even like, and only did it after missing a bus to the finals.  Dumsira Nwibiabu, a fourth-grader, won his age division Saturday at the NFL's Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.
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Millions of children have poured into schools as country after country has made primary education free.
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Parents choose a school more because of its location than its exam results, a big survey suggests.