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Baltimore's teachers don't want six-figure salaries. They just voted down tying raises to student achievement instead of seniority.
13 minutes ago+A $100,000 business plan competition for social entrepreneurs is now open. Get applying!
53 minutes ago+School Pride, a seven-episode series premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. Think Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, but for struggling schools. Will you tune in?
2 hours ago+In what may signal a much broader media trend, the James Beard Foundation will no longer distinguish between online and print journalism when bestowing awards to food writers.
2 hours ago+Finally. The Pentagon announced Thursday that the military will comply with a court order to stop enforcing its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gays from serving openly in the military.
2 hours ago+It worked for commercial space travel and the 100 m.p.g. car. Now the X-Prize Foundation is partnering with the Indian government to launch a prize competition for clean cook stoves.
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From putrid pots to spit roasts, the current pre-industrial food revolution could use a good dose of soot from the hearth.
4 hours ago+Over 40 films, from Citizen Architect to Malls R Us, are featured in the Architecture and Design Film Festival, which kicked off last night in New York City.
5 hours ago+Arianna Huffington on how entrepreneurs are working around, rather than with, the government to revive the economy.
6 hours ago+Flocking to a suburb near you: mobile rent-a-coops.
6 hours ago+Can't make it to today's sold-out Feast conference in New York? Watch it live all day.
7 hours ago+Flu season on the way. Should you keep getting flu shots every year if you've done so in the past? What if you've never gotten the shot?
19 hours ago+Tea Party Congressional candidate David Harmer wants to abolish public schools entirely. He's not screaming it though.
19 hours ago+Here's everything you need to know about personal finance, written on the backs of five business cards.
20 hours ago+Get ready for the Google cloud tailgate! Four years after its release, Google Apps for Education has 10 million users.
21 hours ago+The EPA is allowing more ethanol into your tank: E15 (or blends up to 15 percent ethanol) has been approved.
21 hours ago+The world’s largest oil companies—ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP are engaged in multi-year, multi-million-dollar alliances with U.S. universities to work on energy-related research. The Center for American Progress is on the case.
22 hours ago+St. Lucia has been tapping its geothermal energy sources for years. In an evolving clean energy success story, the Caribbean island is now on pace to become an energy exporter.
22 hours ago+NPR tackles the burgeoning electric car industry, in a "must listen" three-part series.
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