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• Study: Teen drug use at school getting worse

  Published: August 20, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Addiction, Alcohol, Columbia University, Columbiauniversity, Drug Use, Drugs, Druguse, Drunk, High, High School, Highschool, Illegal Drugs, Illegaldrugs, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, Schools, Smoking, Substance Abuse, Substanceabuse, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Teendrug

  under: Teachers, High school, Public school, Teenager, Drugs, Alcohol, Peer pressureBack when I was in high school, drug use at my school was common. We had a school-sanctioned smoking area for students, located in a courtyard between two wings of the school. Few students were actually old enough to legally smoke, yet hundreds gathered in

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• Skipping a grade in school

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Academics, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, First Grade, Firstgrade, Kindergarten, Montessori, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Second Grade, Secondgrade, Skip First Grade, Skip Grade, Skipfirstgrade, Skipgrade, Skipping Grades, Skippi

  under: Teachers, Preschool, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, Going to school, 6-7 yearsIn my state, a child must be five years old on September 1st in order to enroll in kindergarten. Ellie missed that date by three weeks, meaning she couldn't officially start kindergarten until she was almost six years old. Instead, she

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• Special ed...for profit?

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Education, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, High School, Highschool, Middle School, Middleschool, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Special Ed, Special Education, Specialed, Specialeducation

  under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private schoolThe worlds of for-profit business and education seem almost fundamentally at odds. However, one man has managed to bring special ed services to almost 8,000 students -- and he's making money in the process. Mark Claypool used to be a social worker, but got

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• Celebrating birthdays at school

  Published: September 16, 2007, 8:03 am

  Tags: Birthday, Birthday Cake, Birthdaycake, Birthdays, Children, Classroom, Cupcake, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, Food Ban, Foodban, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kids, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, School, School Birthday Parties, Schoolbirthdayparties, Sugar, Sweets, Teach

  under: Teachers, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, 6-7 years, BirthdaysEllie's 7th birthday falls on a school day this year. In the past, she attended a small private school where bringing treats to share with the class was not only allowed, it was expected. But now that she is public school, the rules have changed and the

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• Today is Constitution Day

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Civics, Constitution, Constitution Day, Constitutionday, History, Kids, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, School, Students, Teachers

  under: Teachers, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public schoolDid you know that today is Constitution Day? On September 17, 1787, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting where they signed the Constitution of the United States of America. In 2004, a federal law was enacted requiring all schools

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• How to Find the Right College - National Center for Education Statistics

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:41 pm

  Tags: Business Of Education, Center, Education, National, Private, Public, School, Search, Statistics, Ies

  Businessweek, Newsweek, and others put out guides to finding the right college.The National Center for Education Statistics (IES) has a guide, too. The school can be searched:1. by name2. by state3. by distance from a starting point4. by major

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• Public schools: our educational backbone

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Education, Public School, Public Schools, Publicschool, Publicschools, School, Schools, Teachers

  under: Lifestyle, Teachers, Public school, Making a DifferenceWhile I am not a public school teacher, I am married to one. That, however, is not why I am such a huge proponent of the public school system. This editorial touches on one of the reasons -- certainly a big one as far as our own kids are concerned -- and discusses why this makes the

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• DOE Press Release:Chancellor Klein Announces Measures to Help Parents Engage in Their Children's Education NYC Dept. of Ed. 20070919_parent_engagement

  Published: September 26, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Community Education Council, Joel Klein, Charter Schools, Parents, Schools, School Construction, Mayor Bloomberg, Reorganization, Nyc Public School Parents, Nyc Department Of Education

  Concerns Support for School

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• karan Dinesh Singh Rawat Becomes Monitor of Class 2C in Saint Stephen's School Chandigarh

  Published: October 16, 2007, 9:48 pm

  Tags: Chandigarh, Karan Dinesh Singh, People, Saint Stephen Amp 039 S School Chandigarh, Valley Public School

  karan Dinesh Singh Rawat becomes class monitor after defeating three competitors Ishan, samarth and read more

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• School board suing parents over online petition

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: Brooklin Village Public School, Brooklinvillagepublicschool, Durham District School Board, Durhamdistrictschoolboard, Paul Macgregor, Paulmacgregor, Principal, School, Susan Reed, Susanreed

  under: Teachers, Middle school, Public school, Moms, DadsPaul MacGregor and his wife Michele are unhappy with the principal of their son's school and have taken their grievances to the Internet. They have created an online petition claiming that Principal Susan Reed of Brooklin Village Public School in Whitby, Ontario, is stubborn and

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• The joy of watching your kids read

  Published: November 19, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Literacy Programs, Middle School, Pre Teen Books, Public School Reading Programs, Reading, Reading Programs

  under: Teachers, Middle school, Public school, 10-12 yearsIt is always amazing to watch children develop from lumps of soft flesh into walking, talking beings who have opinions and reasoning abilities. The progression of development has never failed to fascinate me with any of my three children. Nevertheless, I do have my favorite

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• Schools, Admissions and Voilation of DOE rules!

  Published: December 15, 2007, 11:09 pm

  Tags: Ramjas School, Birla Vidya Niketan, The Heritage School, Ryan International School, New Delhi, Amiown, Laxman Public School, St Mary S

  Public School (Rohini)Pre-Primary: No VacancyDOE Rule voilation: This school is planning to scrap Nursery----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ramjas SchoolPre-Primary: No VacancyDOE Rule voilation: School is denying forms for the 4+ yrs for pre-school and they

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• Admissions open in GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, New Delhi

  Published: December 13, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: New Delhi, Gd Goenka Public School, Rohini

  Admissions are now open in GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, New Delhi (per advt in TOI and HT - Delhi Editions)Seats are available only in Pre-School (aka 'Nursery') grade only. As we already got used to the fact - no seats are available in Pre-Primary (aka 'KG') grade.

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• GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj website is down

  Published: December 13, 2007, 2:02 am

  Tags: Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, Gd Goenka Public School

  Today GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj has published news on nursery admissions on leading newspapers but their site is down so forms cant be downloaded from site.If anyone know any other link from where we can download forms, please share the same.As per information available as of now, tare no seats available for Pre-Primary classes :(

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• Delhi Public School (RK Puram, Vasant Kunj, and others), New Delhi

  Published: December 3, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Rk Puram, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, Delhi Public School

  post (Tagore International School, East of Kailash, New Delhi), just learned that DPS school website (all the branches) flashing "No Vacancy" message on their sites.No notice, information has been published by DPS in any of the newspapers so far. What's going to happen this year to pre-primary kids who are 4+ years old is not sure.Is anyone

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