Paul Parks, state, city education official; 86 (Boston Globe)

From childhood in an Indianapolis ghetto, where he said he “never had a white teacher, a white principal, or white classmates,’’ Paul Parks rose to become one of the powerful shapers of education policy in Boston and the Commonwealth, serving as state secretary of education in the 1970s and chairman of the city’s School Committee in the 1990s.

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Paul Parks, state, city education official; 86 (Boston Globe)

Paul Parks, leader and innovator in education, has died (Boston Herald)

Paul Parks, the former Massachusetts secretary of education, Boston School Committee chairman and a towering figure in education whose advocacy led to both busing and the…

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Paul Parks, leader and innovator in education, has died (Boston Herald)

Education commissioner: Austin could do better (Austin American-Statesman)

State Education Commissioner Robert Scott made it clear Friday that he was not impressed with the Austin school district’s efforts at turning around several of its struggling campuses and said he likely will order the closure of Reagan High School in 2010 — as he did Pearce Middle School last month — if the campus doesn’t demonstrate dramatic improvement.

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Education commissioner: Austin could do better (Austin American-Statesman)

NASA’s Office of Education Accepting Proposals for K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (SpaceRef)

NASA’s Office of Education Accepting Proposals for K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice

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Committee Examines a Systems Approach to Improving K-12 STEM Education (SpaceRef)

Committee Examines a Systems Approach to Improving K-12 STEM Education

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Souter promoting civics education at N.H. public schools (USA Today)

Retired but not retiring, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter is helping his native state of New Hampshire promote civics education in the public schools.

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Policy on private education institutes to be streamlined (The New Straits Times)

KOTA BARU: The government plans to streamline the policy on private education institutes, including conditions on their formation and upgrading, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin.

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Policy on private education institutes to be streamlined (The New Straits Times)

Education professor at Clemson receives national recognition (Anderson Independent-Mail)

Lienne Federico Medford, associate professor of education at Clemson University, has earned Teacher of Honor status from Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education.

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How Education And Training Affect The Economy (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance)

Education and training benefit not only the worker, but also the employer and the country as a whole.

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How Education And Training Affect The Economy (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance)

Collier officials not alone in discussing changes to sex education (Naples Daily News)

Sex education curriculum has been a hot topic around the state in 2009. In April, the Volusia County School Board changed its curriculum from abstinence-only education to a curriculum that stresses abstinence while teaching students about birth control

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Collier officials not alone in discussing changes to sex education (Naples Daily News)

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