Hartford, Conn. (WTNH – The state’s largest teacher union is proposing a faster way to get rid of poor teachers. It’s just one of many proposals aimed at the upcoming Education Reform General Assembly session that starts next month. These proposals include a push for all-day kindergarten, universal pre- kindergarten, something advocated by Governor Malloy, and a change in teacher tenure. [Read the proposal here] Bob Wyllie has been a teacher in East Hampton for 26 years. “Tenure is not a guarantee of a job, matter of fact, the law itself is called the The Fair Dismissal Law and it lays out a process on how a teacher is let go,” Wyllie explained. “What we’re suggesting is we make modifications to that in order to shorten the process to make it more cost effective and to really tie it more closely to evaluations and high standards,” said Mary Loftus Levine from the Connecticut Education Association.

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Two University of Michigan professors found that inequality in educational attainment has risen more sharply among women than among men. For those entering college in the 1980s, the gap between men and women was small: about 2 percent more females in the top income group graduated from college than did males; and about 2 percent fewer females in the lowest income group graduated than did males. But for those entering college in the 2000s, the gender gap widened significantly especially at the top of the income distribution, with 13 percent more women than men in the highest income group graduating from college.

This female advantage in educational attainment is not a new phenomenon, the researchers point out. More women than men graduated from college in all birth cohorts since 1950.

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When you decide to sent your kid to Montessori preschool, it is usually challenging to determine which the best option for you is. This is even worse if you are a first timer. However, one guiding principle should be the credibility of the school. There are several factors you need to look at if you are looking at the credibility of the school.

This type of school as opposed to traditional schools will allow your child to develop naturally. They do not impose their curriculum to the child. They will let the child to come up with their own time table and learn what they want. This is contrast to traditional school where the child will follow the laid down time table.

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LOS ANGELES — With some of the residue from one of windiest days Eagle Rock’s ever seen still left at the bottom of Taylor Pool, the Occidental College men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams swam on, hosting Cal Lutheran University in a dual meet on Friday.

The day after a wind storm ravished the campus, knocking down power lines, starting a small brush fire and causing a 15-hour blackout that put the competition in doubt, Oxy split with Cal Lu, taking the women’s competition and losing the men’s.

WOMEN’S RACE

Mallory Ryan (San Mateo) and Juliet Suess (St. C Read full post…