On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mayor Bill de Blasio faced pointed questions about his stance on New York charter schools and conceded that his public-relations efforts had to improve.
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The Pearson Foundation will pay $7.7 million after the New York State attorney general found that it had repeatedly broken state law by helping develop products for its corporate parent.
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A campaign to highlight the potential of children with learning difficulties uses famous achievers from history who are believed to have had some of the same problems.
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With its usual silliness, “Sesame Street” is introducing serious concepts about nature, science, math and engineering to its target audience of children too young to read.
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A campaign about school absenteeism is the latest collaboration on education by the Ad Council and the United States Army.
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to fix E-Rate, a program to give schools telecommunications services, which has been criticized for not keeping up with modern technology.
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William Sanford Nye, better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, has gone from TV host to fierce defender of scientific issues that have been polemicized for religious, political and even economic reasons.
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Two journalists from West Islip High School on Long Island set out to examine school security measures, but they were prosecuted for trespassing and their article was quashed.
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The tenuous state of the economy is a major reason for the earlier arrival of back-to-school shopping campaigns.
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Fewer resources, lack of interest and the Internet have led to fewer high school newspapers in the city’s public schools.
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If it is successful, the show could become a template for future joint projects.
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The Amplify, a 10-inch Android tablet for kindergartners through 12th graders, will come with the company’s education curriculum, which can also be used on other devices.
A high school named after Jonathan M. Levin, a dedicated teacher killed by a former student, has had changes in its student body, and it is expected to be closed.
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