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• KWANZAA: THE HOLIDAY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FBI
• Court ruling to dictate Kan. school funding debate
• 10 Colleges With the Highest Percentage of Students in ESL
• Innovation Update: The Kind of Good Education News You've Been Dying to Hear All Year!

KWANZAA: THE HOLIDAY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FBI Posted: 24 Dec 2013 12:30 PM PST I have too much Kwanzaa shopping left to do. (Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa getting way too commercialized?) Contrary to pundits sniping about Ted Cruz's campaign to repeal Obamacare, even the most boneheaded liberal ideas never "collapse on their own," which is why we still have public schools and President Obama. It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga -- founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers.

Court ruling to dictate Kan. school funding debate Posted: 24 Dec 2013 11:02 AM PST A years-long fight over how the state funds its public schools will move from the courts to the Capitol next year after the Kansas Supreme Court issues a ruling, which could force lawmakers to pay hundreds ...

10 Colleges With the Highest Percentage of Students in ESL Posted: 24 Dec 2013 10:17 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.

Innovation Update: The Kind of Good Education News You've Been Dying to Hear All Year! Posted: 24 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST The storied success of the Reading Recovery literacy intervention program for first graders encouraged the U.S. Department of Education to greatly expand the program in 2010. A new independent study, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, Evaluation of the i3 Scale-up of Reading Recovery: Year One Report, 2011–12, shows that students who participated in the program progressed nearly two months faster than peers who did not participate. In this first study of three, researchers with University of Delaware's Center for Research in Education and Social Policy and a team from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education randomly picked 866 first graders from 147 schools across the country who performed in the lowest 15 to 20 percent of readers in their grade. Each of these students received either normal reading instruction or Reading Recovery.

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