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ASCD SmartBrief:More students admit to cheating amid pressure to win better grades and much more |
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March 3, 2008
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/jTjIkiACnwlsgvCibuzaWDXr
TODAY'S HEADLINES
EYE ON CURRICULUM
* More students admit to cheating amid pressure to win better grades
* Researchers: Over-testing, underfunding hurt British children
* Survey: Only 8% of Florida voters want abstinence-only sex-ed
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
* Report: Country's largest merit-pay plan has pluses, minuses
* New Zealand calls for tougher teacher-training criteria
* Arizona bill would mandate training for school-board members
HOT TOPICS
* Virginia may abandon NCLB
* Imaginative play may help solve some behavioral problems
* IB students feel shortchanged on college credit
* Report: Focus on reading, math leaves other subjects behind
* Column: Principal rewrites rules to end punishment cycle
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
* Cyberbullying a new slant on an old problem
* New online standards aim to set benchmarks for virtual schools
POLICY WATCH
* Report: Dropouts take economic toll on state
* Boston questions free busing for private-school students
* More parents seek to avoid vaccines for their children
* Arizona bill calls for RN in every school
IN THE FIELD
* Teens go hungry rather than eat free lunches
ASSOCIATION NEWS
* Most-Clicked: VA's NCLB Ultimatum
* 65th Reflections
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