Education Guide

According to Secretary Duncan, preparing students to be good environmental citizens is some of the most important work that any of us can do. It’s for our children, it’s for our children’s children, and it’s for generations to come.” Duncan gave the keynote address at EDs “Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy,” held in September 2010.  Today we are pleased to release the proceedings report from this summit.  The report provides an overview of Summit activities and recommends ways to advance sustainability education throughout the country.

The report also summarizes Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanters opening remarks and includes industry, academic and government representatives comments from the summits four panel sessions. The report conc

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 Children at this age learn more about a subject by using their hands than only using their ears. Instead of focusing the lesson on Martin Luther King Jr.s specific message, its more age-appropriate to target his teachings such as peace, justice and equality for everyone.

Selecting Martin Luther King Jr. Day crafts for kindergartners should include the basic message of the civil rights movement, as well as his I Have a Dream speech. “Explain to children who Dr. King was and why hes an American hero. Tell students that Dr. King embraced the idea of “nonviolent resistance” to protest discrimination in America.

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Update: Lynn University sent a note to students and employees Friday saying that a contractor turned most of the ducks over to a third party, and school officials don’t actually know their fate.

Lynn University removed 26 Muscovy Ducks from its Boca Raton campus and later learned that most were killed, sparking outrage among some on campus.

The university posted an apology on its Facebook page Thursday night, saying it was the school’s understanding that the ducks would be relocated.

“However, we were recently informed that the majority were destroyed,” the Facebook posting says. “This was never our intention. We know several of our community members had grown fond of the ducks, we are truly sorry and saddened for any hurt this may have caused.”

Lynn officials say they removed the ducks after receiving complaints about unsanitary conditions they created around its lakeside patio. The ducks

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The School of Medicine’s is launching this week a private, internal social-networking service, called CAP Network, that could dramatically alter communication among faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars and staff like the changes wrought on a much larger scale by Facebook and LinkedIn.

Over the last decade, social-networking services have empowered their users to reconnect with lost friends, stay in touch with distant ones, establish new relationships and, more recently, even coordinate protests and revolutions. And, as those services continue to reshape society, they are also quite likely to also reshape biomedicine.

IRT leaders believes the CAP Network system may be the first fully deployed social network at any academic medical center in the country, though there are other scientific social-networking services on the web today. <

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I got to tell you, the only viable political strategy for getting broad-based support of school reform on that premise is to get those middle-class parents drunk.” -AEIs Rick HessWe wrap up coverage of Monday’s panel discussion, “The Other Achievement Gap,” with a peek at some of the more entertaining debate between the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess and the Center for American Progress’ Ulrich Boser.  At issue is whether America is overly focused on the Achievement Gap…and if so, whether that leads to poor policy.  Below is a short clip, which we hope convinces you to watch the whole discussion.