Amish schools not likely to modernize
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The quaint, one-room schoolhouses that dot Pennsylvania's verdant countryside are yet another expression of Amish simplicity in a time when some mainstream public schools rely on electronic buzzers and metal detectors to keep students safe.
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True or false? Charter schools are not always the silver bullet for boosting student achievement that some politicians and educators have portrayed them to be.
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Carol Brody, an elementary school guidance counselor, has some advice for those wonder why educators are frustrated. "They should walk for one hour in a teacher's shoes," Brody said, "and then you wouldn't hear those criticisms from them again."
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The public is a bit fickle about its schools, with mixed or even contradictory views about testing, vouchers and other education topics, a poll finds.
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Two proposed integrated schools are to open despite the Government's refusal to fund them.
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By LAURA CLARK  ON the outside, the Grade II listed buildings fashioned from old Devon stone suggest nothing more than a traditional village primary school.   But on the inside, the future of education is unfolding.
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They try to drill it into you in elementary school: No copying other people's homework. But apparently a federal judge in western Pennsylvania didn't get the message.
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Most schools don't have the funds to follow the lead of well-endowed universities.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 4--This is the first of two parts.   Back in 2001, Cumberland County officials decided they didn't need the Luther P. Jackson Elementary School on U.S. 60. The 32 classrooms had been empty for years and the building was a wreck.
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Some teachers fail to change their attitude to suit a new era in schools, the education minister says.
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Another lesson in two may not be greater than one.
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Chicago Tribune - Anyone paying attention would notice something odd about the elementary schools here. What the government and parents are awakening to--belatedly--is the danger inherent in what they see.
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By James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer  Hubble Middle School in Wheaton is not one of the 10 most endangered historic places in Illinois for 2007, but it might earn a future listing as the building's fate heads to a referendum in 2008.
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GEORGETOWN, Pennsylvania  - Pennsylvania's Amish began to bury the victims of this week's schoolroom massacre on Thursday amid renewed concern that their private, rural way of life was yielding to modernity.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - This Amish town showed more forgiveness than anger on Tuesday, a day after a 32-year-old dairy truck driver stormed a one-room school and tried to execute all the girls, killing five.
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Some parents are opting to ÂunschoolÂ their children, a philosophy broadly defined by its rejection of not only the schoolhouse but also classes, curriculums and textbooks.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.