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Welcome to our News to Know Page. Here you will find links to information about important education issues, both permanent plus continually updating RSS feeds. To view the RSS feeds, use the menu on the left. In addition, listed below, are categories containing links to selected news items that we believe will be of interest to you,including professional development opportunities.

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1	Baltimore Teachers Reject New Contract Baltimore teachers said thanks, but no thanks, to a new contract that would have based their pay on student outcomes and professional development, instead of seniority and degrees.
2	Conjugation.com This site has a source code you can embed on your own wiki or website. In class you can use your interactive whiteboard or projector to show students conjugation.com and have them suggest verbs to be entered and conjugated. They will also learn the names of the verb forms and tenses. Have the ESL and ELL students in your class use this site to check their writing. Underline the verbs in their writing that are not conjugated correctly and let them make the corrections using
3	Documentary Has Ability To Unite Liberals And Conservatives Around Need For Education Reform With its ability to unite limousine liberals and divine-right conservatives, Davis Guggenheim's education documentary "Waiting for Superman" is particularly timely for New Jersey.
4	Title Date Category Archived? Featured news in Rss Too many policymakers have recently adopted the misguided belief that improvements in students' scores on standardized tests in mathematics and reading can be heavily relied upon to evaluate, reward, and remove the teachers of these tested students.
5	Keeping Great Teachers in the Classroom According to the United States Education Department, the country will need 1.6 million new teachers in the next five years. Yet a recent report by the nonprofit National Commission on Teaching and America's Future reports that “approximately a third of America’s new teachers leave teaching sometime during their first three years of teaching; almost half leave during the first five years. In many cases, keeping our schools supplied with qualified teachers is comparable to trying to fill a bucket with a huge hole in the bottom.”