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Making The Most Of MOOCs: The Ins And Outs Of E-Learning

4:30pm April 23, 2013

Don't ever email the professor. Never friend the teacher on Facebook. Those are some of the rules A.J. Jacobs learned when he joined the ranks of millions enrolled in massive open online courses, MOOCs. Harvard, MIT and Stanford are among universities offering virtual classes free of charge.

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Guilford County Students Will Use Their Imagination to Travel Across the Country

3:00pm April 23, 2013

by Keri Brown

The program is held at the Charles R. Drew Elementary School.

In D.C., Art Program Turns Boys' Lives Into 'Masterpieces'

10:26pm April 18, 2013

by Elizabeth Blair

In Washington's Ward 7, where only 33 percent of students graduate from high school, a program called Life Pieces to Masterpieces is sending nearly 100 percent of its graduates to college or post-secondary education.

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E. Paul Torrance, shown here in the mid-'80s, spent most of his career studying and encouraging students' creativity.

More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test

5:30pm April 18, 2013

by Elizabeth Blair

A bit like an IQ test measures intelligence, the Torrance Test and others like it measure creative ability. They help figure out when investments pay off, and they can draw attention to hidden problems, like why elementary kids are scoring better than high school students.

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'The Hell Of American Day Care': Expensive And 'Mediocre'

2:49pm April 17, 2013

In a cover story for The New Republic, journalist Jonathan Cohn examines the conundrum of day care in the United States. "On the one hand," he says, "improving the quality of child care ... is going to take more money. On the other hand, it already costs more than many families can pay."

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El Paso Schools Cheating Scandal: Who's Accountable?

2:29pm April 11, 2013

by Claudio Sanchez

The former superintendent of the Texas school district was sentenced to three years in prison for rigging standardized test scores. Other employees could still face charges for helping him carry out his scheme. Now, local and state education officials are blaming each other for letting it go on so long.

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NC Schools Are Transitioning From Textbooks to E-Books

2:26pm April 11, 2013

by Keri Brown

More than 150 education leaders from across the country are meeting Thursday at Discovery Communications' outside of Washington D.C. to discuss the future of digital textbooks and the transition to the digital classroom. Thousands more are joining the one-day conference on-line.

Students at Tenth Street Elementary out on the playground.

L.A. Schools Hire Security Aides To Watch For Threats

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Kirk Siegler

Amid deep budget cuts and layoffs, the nation's second-largest school district is spending $4.5 million to hire 1,000 new aides this year. The superintendent says he'd rather use the money to hire back teachers, but the shootings in Newtown, Conn., led to a change in priorities.

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College loan debt isn't easing up, and students are struggling to navigate a plethora of obligations.

Loan Education Becomes Prerequisite As Student Debt Balloons

4:55pm April 06, 2013

by NPR Staff

Americans hold about $1 trillion in student loans, and the debt burden is only getting heavier. One financial aid counselor says students are starting to smarten up and asking questions he'd never considered himself before the recession hit.

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Community Invited to Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in Greensboro

4:15pm April 05, 2013

by Keri Brown

Monday, April 8 is Holocaust Remembrance Day around the world. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A community event in Greensboro this weekend will pay tribute to the estimated 11-million people killed during this turbulent time in history.