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• Common Core: Teachers Are Not Prepared
• Colleges face enrollment shortfalls, offer discounts: report
• Brown v. Board site to mark anniversary of ruling
• College student arrested for threats to schools across Los Angeles

Common Core: Teachers Are Not Prepared Posted: 16 May 2013 02:27 PM PDT Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is a classic. When I think about today's bridge over troubled water, I think about how prepared I am to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). I think about how to bridge Common Core State Standards and Career Technical Education (CTE) together.

Colleges face enrollment shortfalls, offer discounts: report Posted: 16 May 2013 02:13 PM PDT By Andrea Burzynski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many leading U.S. colleges and universities face a shortfall in enrollment for fall classes and will offer price discounts as they compete for students in an ever expanding higher education market, according to Forbes. The magazine highlighted 50 public and private U.S. colleges listed in the Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" list that are still accepting students in their 2013 freshman classes. ...

Brown v. Board site to mark anniversary of ruling Posted: 16 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site will display a black doll used in a series of famous race studies to mark the 59th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

College student arrested for threats to schools across Los Angeles Posted: 16 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police arrested a college student accused of making telephone threats that sparked security alerts across the Los Angeles area on Thursday, including the evacuation of a community college and the lockdown of a second college campus and numerous public schools. East Los Angeles College was evacuated while students and staff at about 10 nearby public schools were confined to their campuses after police received an anonymous call at about 8 a.m. local time from a person saying he was headed to a school with a gun, the sheriff's department said. ...

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