How Nebraska Leaves No Child Behind
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One maverick state devised its own education strategy that bucks the trend toward high-stakes tests and federal control
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T he kid knows no boundaries. But neither does the adult. The high school senior is so lost in a hyper-public, YouTube world that he thinks nothing of forwarding a private phone call to the entire planet. The wife of the Fairfax County public school administrator the kid called at home is underst...
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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets. Think sex, skiing and rock 'n' roll. When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish stunts to get the attention of high schoolers.
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The scarlet letter in education these days is an "R." It stands for restructuring &#151; the purgatory that schools are pushed into if they fail to meet testing goals for six straight years under the No Child Left Behind law.
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A 15-year-old runaway girl and a male companion were arrested in Nebraska on Thursday, ending a two-day chase by police that prompted schools to cancel some activities.
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Andrew Leibel, 18, of Superior and Spencer Farley, 13, of Lincoln today  were named Nebraska's top two youth volunteers for 2007 by The  Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring  young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
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OMAHA -- Stocking up on food is as simple as a trip to the grocery store, a veritable land of plenty for Americans.
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Five presidential contenders have children under 10, a circumstance historians say has no recent precedent.
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The Christian Science Monitor - It&#39;s 10 o&#39;clock in the morning and Shkelten Daljani, a rambunctious boy of 14 in a tattered &quot;Route 66&quot; T-shirt, should be in school. But if he wants to eat, he has to help his father collect scrap metal to sell. The previous day, he says, there was no metal and no food.
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Education Secretary Rodney Paige, who spearheaded implementation of the No Child Left Behind law, a centerpiece of President Bush&#39;s first-term domestic-policy
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By Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 10--If Gov.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - In a back-to-school message, President Bush says that while many public schools aren't making the grade, he should get high marks from voters for the No Child Left Behind Act.   "We are leaving behind the broken system that shuffled children from grade to grade, even when they were not learning the basics," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address...
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Are schools leaving the most gifted children behind if they don't allow them to skip ahead?
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Nebraska wasn't always the home of the triple-option quarterback.
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Take away the glut of turnovers, and Bill Callahan says Nebraska&#39;s transition from the triple-option to the West Coast offense has gone smoothly.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 18--Elverta is the kind of place where folks wouldn't be surprised to see a chicken running loose or a neighbor's old Camaro on blocks in the front yard. It's a place where children walk to school along rural two-lane roads.