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Bison burgers were the entree Thursday night at North Central High School. But the side dishes were all over the menu: history, geography, archaeology, sociology, climatology, genomics …

George Haines is an educator who believes that school shouldn’t be just about preparing students for real life–it should be real life.

The early years of life plant the seeds of a monster or a Mae West.

Speaking more than one language works like a mental gymnasium by strengthening the ability to distinguish between irrelevant and important information.

"The leaders in your system, from the highest levels of government and departments of education all the way down into schools, are the drivers of change. If a principal doesn’t see the necessity for the change or doesn’t provide the pressure for the change, the change won’t occur. Just because you’ve introduced the technology doesn’t mean anyone will do anything significant with it, if the leaders aren’t applying the pressure to do that," he said.

If teens want jobs, they have to be prepared to fight for them.

The findings are collected in a 95-page report, "Review of Current Practices, Perceptions, and Perspectives," available at http://www.mcps.k12.mt.us.

Once or twice a week, students at the state’s flagship public university collect in some idle classroom or lounge for a "flash seminar," an ad hoc performance of pedagogy.

How Tom Luna’s co-workers from the Bush administration — and the private education companies they now help run — positioned Idaho’s schools chief to make changes that the for-profit education industry may cash in on.