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In Alabama Case, Desegregation History Defeats District's Secession Effort

The appeals court put the brakes on a predominantly white community's racially tinged efforts to secede from a larger school system.




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Bernie Sanders' Education Plan: Unions and Desegregation Win, Charters Lose

Bernie Sanders' sweeping vision would establish a $60,000 minimum salary for teachers, while clamping down on charters and boosting efforts to desegregate schools. It's hard to see a lot of it becoming a reality.




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Schools' Racial Makeup Can Sway Disability Diagnoses

Three new studies show that a web of factors appear to influence how often black and Hispanic children are identified for special education compared to similar white peers.




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Schools With Segregationists' Names: Where They Are and Who They're Named for

Education Week found 22 public schools named after politicians who signed the Southern Manifesto opposing school integration after the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision.




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Biden's Segregation Comments Resurrect His Anti-Busing History

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks on his willingness to work with segregationists resurrected his long-ago efforts to oppose school busing. Will it hurt his campaign?




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It's One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean?

Loaded or empirical? Incendiary or honest? Unavoidable or misleading? There’s a big disconnect around how we use the word “segregation.”




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NLRB Rejects Northwestern Football Players' Attempt to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.




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District's Hair-Length Rule for Male Basketball Players Struck Down by Court

A federal appeals court has struck down an Indiana school district's policy requiring short hair for boys on the basketball team, ruling that the lack of a similar policy for girls'-team basketball players results in illegal sex discrimination.




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Parents Sue N.Y. School Districts, Medical Responders Over Football Player's Death

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.




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Data Doesn't Have to Be a Dirty Word

Every teacher wants his/her students to be successful and chances are, each teacher is doing so much already with the information he or she has to make that happen. As team leaders, we want to help our teachers leverage the information they have to create the most targeted and effective instruction




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Kansas City Data-Sharing Effort Showcases Ballmer Group's Strategy

A $59 million investment in software developer Social Solutions aims to ease the flow of data among schools and social service providers.




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How's Discipline at Your School? Don't Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

YouthTruth asked 104,000 school staff, students, and their families how they perceive the fairness of discipline at their schools. The results can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.




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Teaching Students to Wrangle 'Big Data'

In a labor market hungry for employees who can work with data, some high schools have begun to offer a new breed of classes in data science.




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EdWeek's Leaders To Learn From Spotlights 12 Innovative District Leaders

The annual issue, now in its eighth year, highlights the work of district leaders who are deploying new ideas to make a difference for their staff and students.




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Tenth UEFA Regions' Cup: final tournament draw

Hosts Istanbul must face qualifying stars Zagreb in the group stage following the draw for the tenth UEFA Regions' Cup finals, with former winners Castilla y León in the other section.




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UEFA Regions' Cup finals schedule

The schedule for the UEFA Regions' Cup finals in Turkey has been confirmed, with host team Istanbul taking on Ukraine's Ingulec in their opening game, while former winners Castilla y León meet Olomouc.




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Download the UEFA Regions' Cup programme

The UEFA Regions' Cup final tournament programme is available for download, with detailed information about the eight teams going for gold at the world's top amateur tournament.




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Full guide to the UEFA Regions' Cup finals

Small but beautiful, the UEFA Regions' Cup kicks off in Turkey at the weekend; get the inside line on the world's top amateur tournament and the contenders for the 2017 crown.




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Spain's Castilla y León too strong for Olomouc

Castilla y León made an impressive start to their bid for a second UEFA Regions' Cup title as two goals from Roberto García Puente set them on course for a 4-1 victory.




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Irish amateurs hold off Russia's South Region to win

Eoin Hayes's first-half strike earned the Group B points for Irish side Region 2 as Russia's South Region failed to convert their possession into a single shot on goal.




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Castilla y León thwarted by Region 2

The Spanish side had the bulk of the chances, but Eoin Hayes hit the woodwork for Gerry Davies' Irish challengers as the battle for top spot in Group B ended in stalemate.




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South Region rally to oust Castilla y León

The Spanish side let a two-goal lead slip in their last Group B game, ten-man South Region recovering to win it in added time, substitute Sergei Sokolov the match winner.




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Zagreb triumphant in Regions' Cup final

Two years on from losing the final, Zagreb have clinched the UEFA Regions' Cup crown following Toni Adžić's first-half goal in a 1-0 victory against Irish hopefuls Region 2.




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2018/19 UEFA Regions' Cup qualifying draw

Europe's top competition for amateur players returns for 2018/19 with 39 nations discovering the fate of their eventual representatives in the preliminary and intermediate round draws.




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UEFA Regions' Cup finals line-up set

Teams from the Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Poland and Russia are in the finals.




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Bavaria to host Regions' Cup in June

Bavaria will host the eight-team UEFA Regions' Cup finals from 18 to 26 June.




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Regions' Cup finals draw made

The UEFA Regions' Cup finals draw was held during half-time of Bayern v Liverpool.




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What is the UEFA Regions' Cup?

The UEFA Regions' Cup, is a unique amateur competition with nine different winners in its 11 editions.




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Regions' Cup 2019: all the results

All the results as Dolny Śląsk claimed the European amateur title in Bavaria after an eight-team finals.




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Dolny Śląsk win Regions' Cup final: as it happened

Poland's Dolny Śląsk came from behind to beat hosts Bavaria 3-2 for the amateur title in a final of five penalties.




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Dolny Śląsk win 2019 Regions' Cup: at a glance .

Dolny Śląsk beat hosts Bavaria 3-2 in a thrilling final to become only the second two-time winners.




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Janey Godley: 'Women my age are told we don’t know how to work the internet but I showed these kids how it’s done'

Brian Beacom




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Theatre & Dance with Mark Brown

The Metamorphosis




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Opinion: Alison Rowat: Blistering start for Starmer at virtual Prime Minister's Questions

STRANGE things you never thought would come to pass. Queueing to enter a supermarket. Being thrilled by the sight of the bin lorry arriving. Making your own surgical mask. These days. But the oddest thing of all? Being glad to see politicians.




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Why Tech Isn't Transforming Teaching: 10 Key Stories From Education Week

Crave pragmatic, honest, clear-eyed conversation about the realities of ed tech? Here's a reading list from Education Week, as presented at ISTE 2019.




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Harvard Business Review, MBA Lessons Guide Principals' Ed-Tech Leadership

Effective management approaches are not skills principals typically learn through the traditional pathways of education. To fill the gap, they are turning to business programs and publications.




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One Superintendent's Approach to Pragmatic, Sustainable Tech Leadership

When it comes to school technology, Superintendent Doug Brubaker emphasizes robust infrastructure, regular refresh cycles, and training. Taxpayers and teachers are buying into the practical approach.




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N.Y.C.-IBM Partnership Focuses on Students' Tech. Skills

The public-private initiative between the technology company and a city school aims to prepare students for future careers.




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Flood of Investment, Products Stirs Fears of Education 'Tech Bubble'

Analysts and business officials wonder if the education technology market faces the risk of a crash, similar to what occurred during the dot-com bust in the 1990s.




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An Ed-Tech 'Consumer Reports'

Two professors propose a plan to launch a new organization that would evaluate education technology solutions and report those results to schools and ed-tech entrepreneurs.




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Wis. Class-Size Study Yields Advice On Teachers' Methods

New findings on a state initiative in Wisconsin suggest that to make the most out of smaller class sizes in the early grades, teachers should focus on basic skills when they have one-on-one contact with students, ask children to discuss and demonstrate what they know, and have a firm, but nurturing,




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Trump's Budget Eliminates Funding for Teacher Training, Class-Size Reductions

The proposed budget from the Trump administration eliminates the Title II grant program, which pays for professional development and class-size reduction efforts.




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Preschool Class Size—Within Reason—Doesn't Matter, Study Finds

Keeping preschool class sizes at or under 20 children, and keeping child-teacher ratios at 10 to 1, will work for most children in preschool, according to a new study.




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Citing Class Sizes, Services, Teachers In California's Capital City Walk Out

Hundreds of teachers across the Sacramento Unified school district walked out of their classrooms and onto picket lines last week for the first time in 30 years, staging a one-day strike alleging unfair labor practices by the California district.




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Camley's Cartoon on Saturday, July 13: It's the Donald Trump show

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210.”




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Camley's Cartoon on Saturday, July 20: Pensioners' fear of banking app

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210




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Camley's Cartoon on Saturday, July 27: New PM's spirit of blind optimism

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210.”




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Camley's Cartoon on Saturday, August 10: Transport system washed out

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210




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Camley's Cartoon: Trump brings Hong Kong into trade war

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210.




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Herald Diary: 'Six o’ wan and two-thirds o’ the other'

Head boy