Schooling 'mix up' hits Portugal
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Schools across Portugal turn away pupils because of a teachers' assignment mix up on the first day of classes.
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A think tank claims state schools that control their own admissions are covertly selecting pupils by ability.
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The government is accused underplaying  the science teacher shortage in England's schools.
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NOBLEJAS, Spain Â A small-town Spanish mayor concerned about a high dropout rate in local schools has devised a way to keep kids studying Â pay them.
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English high schools may teach Mandarin or Arabic instead of EU languages in new curriculum proposals.
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A third of graduates believe they studied the wrong course at university, a survey suggests.
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Bureaucrats in a Russian region have been sent back to school to improve their spelling and grammar.
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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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Since the president signed No Child Left Behind, the law has imposed changes on education, but it has also faced a backlash.
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Unreliable test scores and other shaky data may be causing states to wrongly penalize some schools under federal law, congressional investigators have found.
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The basis of new 'single level' pupil progress tests is changed, to more closely resemble Sats.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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Teachers are urged to adopt new strategies to help children who fall behind in English and maths.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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A head teachers' group believes online marking of papers is contributing to inaccurate exam results.
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LISBON, May 30 (IPS) - The economic decline of Portugal's middle  class, the growing marginalisation of the poorest of the poor,  the uncertainty facing young people and drastic measures --  described by critics as "neoliberal" -- adopted by the  socialist government form the backdrop to Wednesday's  general strike in this southern European country.
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Suburban London and Pittsfield would seem to have little in common, but the principal of a British primary school found similarities after he recently completed a six-week session at Conte Community School.