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Erie School District Awarded $15 Million Grant From the GE Foundation

The School District of the City of Erie (SDCE) has been awarded a $15 million, five-year grant from the GE Foundation's College Bound District Program, the district and the Company announced today

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Motorola Calls Schools to Join Race to Recycle Program

Motorola, Inc. today renewed its call for U.S. schools to earn extra money and help the environment by collecting used mobile phones for reuse and recycling through the company's Race to Recycle program.

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No success for Spanish-speaking pre-schoolers

Contrary to conventional wisdom, English-only pre-kindergarten classrooms may not help native Spanish-speaking children become better prepared for school. According to research by FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spanish-speaking children had better social skills when their teachers spoke some Spanish.

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Honda Lights Up Melbourne School

The Honda Racing F1 Team arrived in Melbourne this week and one of the first stops was Albert Park Primary School, where the team's race drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello helped to update the school's lighting system with eco-friendly fluorescent globes.

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Oprah Winfrey opens South African school funded by her Angel Network

U.S. talk show queen Oprah Winfrey opened her second school for poor South African youth Friday, this one an innovative, environment-friendly institution she hopes will be a model for public education in this country.

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Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein Announces Selection of IBM

Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS) Will Help Schools Analyze and Report Student Performance; Parents to Receive Reports on School and Student Progress, Able to Access Continually Updated Information About Their Children

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Boys aged 13 and 14 most likely to access pornography

Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children's viewing habits, according to a new University of Alberta study.

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Extreme Delivering Networks for Colorado's Brighton School District

Scalable network infrastructure boosts computing performance and enables mobility, growth, and support of new applications

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AT&T Announces New Contract With Fresno Unified School District

California School District Enhances Student Experience by Expanding Network Capabilities With AT&T Solution

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Cisco Education Initiative

Eight Additional Jefferson Parish Schools Scheduled for Technology Upgrade through Cisco Education Initiative

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Intel Talent Semifinalists Announced

300 Chosen from 1,705 Entrants for the 'Junior Nobel Prize'

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Rates of Pneumonia in Rhode Island Schools

Over the past two weeks, the Rhode Island Department of Health and the CDC have investigated reports of pneumonia at Greenwood Elementary in Warwick; Oak Haven Elementary and Blackrock Elementary in Coventry; and the John F. Deering Middle School in West Warwick.

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