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Teacher Accused of Calling Student "Jew Boy" to Be Fired
KTLA NewsLA CANADA, Calif. (KTLA) -- The La Canada Unified school board voted unanimously to fire a high school math teacher accused of calling a student "Jew boy." The board announced its 5-0 decision to begin dismissal proceedings for Gabrielle Leko at the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Judaism, Teaching and Learning, Students
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"Stand and Deliver" Teacher, Jaime Escalante, Dies
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- Famed math teacher, and subject of 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' Jaime Escalante, has died. The Bolivian-born Escalante was 79 years old. Family friend, Keith Miller, says Escalante died Tuesday in Reno, Nev., where he was undergoing...Tags: Keith Miller, Entertainment, Examinations, Crimes, Movies
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California's 8th-grade Algebra Rule Gets Poor Marks
LOS ANGELES -- The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded. These predictions, based on national data, come in...Tags: Horace Mann, North Dakota, Los Angeles, Vermont, Colleges and Universities
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Remember to include curveballs in equation
What do ocean turbulence, ballistic weaponry and your retirement have in common? You might be thinking about analogies with stock market volatility, but a York University professor would like you to also think about Andrey Kolmogorov. Kolmogorov was a...Tags: Personal Finance, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Inflation and Deflation
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Love of math displayed at ICOE competition
Staff Writer, Copy EditorAfter finishing in fourth place last year in the seventh-grade pre-algebra heat, eighth-grader Caroline Kim felt a different strategy was going to be needed if her team from McCabe’s Corfman School was to fare better at the 2012 Imperial County...Tags: Education, High Schools, Facebook, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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Major dome-oh!
A flashback of the '60s might include a hilltop, with hippies sitting outside of a geodesic dome. The structures, popularized by inventor and architect R. Buckminster Fuller — who patented them in 1954 — were adopted briefly by the...Tags: Science and Technology
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The time has come -- seniors look towards the future at Sturgis graduation Sunday
STURGIS, S.D. - Graduation for the Sturgis Brown High School Class of 2012 took place Sunday, as just over 100 students received their diplomas. The ceremony, began with the students processing into the gym to music played by the high school band under...Tags: Education, Social Sciences, High Schools, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning
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Schools preparing for tougher, tech-enhanced math SOL exams
Students taking the state's online standardized math tests this month will have to drag-and-drop their way to some of the answers. For the first time, the digital Standards of Learning math exams will include questions that require students to create...Tags: Education, Video Supplies and Services, Students, Standards of Learning, Schools
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Central students collect awards
Aberdeen Central students were recognized at the school's 90th annual awards presentation May 1 at the Thomas F. Kelly Theatre. SOCIAL SERVICE AWARDS American Legion School Citizenship Awards: Hannah Brenden, Michael Marmorstein. Brown County Teen...Tags: Entertainment, Juvenile Delinquency, French Literature, Music, Engineering
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Adjusting to New Tech: First-year lessons arise as new school sets its identity
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Last fall, freshmen at South Bend New Tech High School dressed up for their first project presentation, but some were better suited for success on a date, with low cuts on the girls' clothing and polo shirts on the boys. The faculty...Tags: New Products, Education, Arts and Culture, Teachers, Students
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Officials tackle right-of-way planting issues
With this year's early spring weather, farmers around the region are already busy tilling and planting fields for the 2012 growing season. With strong commodity prices and rising input costs, growers are trying to get as much crop from their fields as...Tags: Trials, Science and Technology, Justice System, Litigation, Watertown
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A Second Look: 'A Hollis Frampton Odyssey'
Half a century ago, the writer C.P. Snow famously coined the phrase "the two cultures," referring to the widening gulf between the sciences and the arts. Few have bridged that chasm of incomprehension with as much verve and ingenuity as the American...
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