Posts Tagged ‘education’
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Newly painted outside Southern Guilford High School in Guilford County, N.C. (via WXII-TV of Winston-Salem)
By Bill O'Neil
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Reporting: Branded! Public schools court corporate sponsors
Schools across the country are dropping their resistance to advertising, selling the rights to name their facilities to local businesses as education budgets fall further behind in the stagnant economy.
That’s why field hockey and lacrosse players at Hempfield High School in Landisville, Pa., practice and compete on Heart of Lancaster Hospital Turf Quad. At Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., the baseball team plays at SmileMaker Dental Field. At Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pa., the basketball teams compete at Discovery Federal Credit Union Gym.
Full story (Alex Johnson/msnbc.com)
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Reporting: Schools in ‘category 5’ budget crisis
While the recession has put a squeeze on all types of government programs, none has felt its impact more than education — the largest item in most states’ budgets.
Full story (Alex Johnson/msnbc.com)
Schools rethinking bans on cell phones
As ever more powerful cell phones come closer to mimicking the laptop computers many pupils carry each day, teachers and administrators are wrestling with whether their utility as a teaching tool outweighs the disruptions they can pose in the classroom.
Full story (Alex Johnson/msnbc.com)
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