Student ideas for green roof make school a teaching lab
Successful Practices News
7/27/2010-8/16/2010
At Boston Latin, sustainability is goal
Take Boston Latin School, and pack on top of its building a weather station, a greenhouse, two outdoor classrooms, a cafeteria, and a garden. Then add solar panels, wind turbines, and the outdoor elevator.
It’s a 70,000-square-foot, $6.2 million green...
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D.C. board of education adopts national 'common core' standards for schools
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7/27/2010-8/16/2010
The D.C. State Board of Education on Wednesday adopted new national standards for English and math, joining Maryland and more than two dozen states in a groundbreaking effort to establish common expectations for what students should learn every year from kindergarten through high school.
The...
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Now Is the Time to Support Science Teachers
Successful Practices News
7/27/2010-8/16/2010
There’s no better time to make the case for science education than right now. For months, we’ve witnessed the largest ecological disaster in U.S. history unfold, creating debates among scientists and engineers about how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can be contained. This crisis has created an...
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