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| Quotes to Note |
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
Jean Piaget
"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."
Wendell Phillips
"If you can read this, thank a teacher."
Anonymous teacher
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
W. B. Yeats
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
Alec Bourne
"How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?"
Barbara J. Alexander
"Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
Sir William Haley
"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."
Robert F. Goheen
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| News & Trends on K-12 Education |
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California's grim budget picture stalls
SACRAMENTO—The mood was buoyant just a few months ago as some of the state's best minds in education gathered to debate what school reforms to make in 2008, a year Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had anoin
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School Generates Own Power
Taking advantage of year round sunny weather, and motivated by incentives from the California Energy Commission's (CEC) "Solar Schools Program," Top Of The World Elementary School of the Laguna Beach
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A District Where No Two Schools Are Alike
(NPR) School districts all across the country are breaking apart their traditional, large high schools. But once districts have thrown out the old, the question is: What do they offer instead?
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| Best Education Web Sites
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award a web site this recognition on six factors, including 1) when it's
providing outstanding material in curriculum or services with meaningful
content related to Standards, 2) it includes aspects of character education,
and 3) it provides an education approach recognized by current research as
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