A School Fight Over Chocolate Milk The New York Times | MILK, that icon of purity, has been taking some hits lately. | By the time they are 11, children drink more soda than milk. The amount of milk consumed in America over all has fallen to about 20 gallons a year per capita, from 25 gallons in the early 1990s. | It’s even on shaky ground in the...
For New York, $700 Million in School Aid The New York Times | New York captured almost $700 million for schools when it was selected Tuesday as one of 10 winners in the federal Race to the Top competition, a victory for state education officials as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who had pushed the Legislature to enact changes that helped secure the mone...
Public Hospitals Look to Overhaul Affiliations With Medical Schools Herald Tribune | New York City’s public hospital system is embarking on a long-term attempt to gain more control over running its 11 hospitals by renegotiating longstanding affiliation contracts with some of the city’s most powerful medical schools. A...
Study finds students in standalone middle schools lag behind K-8 peers PhysOrg --> | Rockoff's study shows that after they enter middle school, students have lower test scores than students continuing in K-8 schools. Image credit: Authors' calculations | (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study that analyzes a decade of achievement data fr...
TN schools inch closer to national standardized testing Nashville Tennessean individual: 8 numChar :2009 | -->individual: 19 numChar :2173 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 21 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4255 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 4182 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 73 | -->One year after Tennessee introduced standardized tests th...
Week Two Primer: Previewing high school football action Nashville Tennessean individual: 8 numChar :2212 | -->individual: 63 numChar :2016 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 79 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4747 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 4228 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 519 | -->MBA freshman Jalen Hurd (6-foot-2, 180 pounds) has emerg...
A Celebratory Road Trip for Education Secretary The New York Times | PORTLAND, Me. — A chartered bus adorned with slogans about “Hope” and “Dreams” was rumbling through this part of the country this week, carrying a public servant who made regular stops to greet mayors and local televis...
Lexington, Cayce, West Columbia school contacts The State | Middle Schools | Busbee Creative Arts Academy | Tips for parents | Being active in your child's school has advantages, especially when it comes to making the facility a safer place. Here, five ideas from keepschoolssafe.org: | Volunteer to help in ...
Northeast Columbia school contacts The State | RICHLAND 2 | Elementary schools | Tips for parents | Being active in your child's school has advantages, especially when it comes to making the facility a safer place. Here, five ideas from keepschoolssafe.org: | Volunteer to help in your child's c...
Hot Lunch At An Aetna Parking Lot: Bobby Flay Judges Healthy Cooking [The Hartford Courant, Conn.] Insurance Newsnet | Sept. 01--Celebrity chef Bobby Flay spent a hot lunch hour in an Aetna parking lot, judging the recipes of six Aetna employees from across the nation -- including Gail Chinitz, of Avon -- as they vied for the right to become the insurer's "Healthiest Chef." | Flay and Aetna executives, judged the dishes as part of the health insurer's Healthy Foo...
Womans Day: Microwave recipes The Examiner | How cool is this? Woman's Day has published a list of great microwavable recipes for us! From the main course to desserts, make them using the microwave. | Microwave Meals to the Rescue | Entrées | 1. Spaghetti Squash with Chunky Sauce | 2. Vegetable Cannelloni | 3. Salmon with Herbed Mayonnaise and Zucchini Rice | 4. Curried Shepherd’s Pie |...
