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		<title>Governor Shumlin Addresses Education Needs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Governor Shumlin&#8217;s Inaugural Address: &#8220;&#8230;In a democratic society, educating our citizens is our single greatest obligation. I hereby call for an end to the war of words launched from Montpelier that pits property tax payers against our children, teachers, principals, and school board members, and invite instead a respectful conversation on how to create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=596&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Transformation…Be the Buzz! A Statewide Conference for High-School Youth and Adult Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we create a compelling case for change? How do we engage the community in transformation efforts? What strategies will help people re-imagine schooling? How do we use student-developed action research to inform transformation? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=594&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What High-Speed Broadband Access means for Vermont Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we look at our broadband access in Vermont in the latter part of 2010 and reflect on the current overall state of broadband services, it is important to define what broadband access represents in the context of teaching and learning in our schools.

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		<title>Students Taking A Global Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in Vermont are looking beyond our state&#8217;s borders and even outside our continent. They are embracing an education that is internationally involved. Two schools have banded together to raise money for a school of similar size in Ghana, Africa. Taking the lead is the Rick Marcotte Central School in South Burlington. They are helping an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=586&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New England Secondary School Consortium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two Secondary Schools Selected to Represent Vermont at Regional Conference on School Transformation The Schools Will Share Successful Strategies with Colleagues from Across New England MEDIA CONTACT Amy Cole, NESSC State Liaison for Vermont 802-734-0562 &#124; amy_cole@newenglandssc.org Two Vermont public secondary schools—Windham Regional Career Center and Milton High School—have been invited to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=582&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Among Top Performers on National Reading Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTPELIER – Reading scores for Vermont students were among the highest in the country on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released today by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Educational Statistics (NCES). Overall, only Massachusetts outperformed Vermont on the fourth-grade test, while no other state outperformed Vermont at the eighth-grade level. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=578&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to State Spelling Bee Champion Mael Le Scouezac!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mael Le Scouezac of Craftsbury Wins Statewide Spelling Bee (March 18, 2010) STATE OF VERMONT Department of Education 120 State StreetMontpelier, VT 05620-2501 Mael Le Scouezac Wins Statewide Spelling Bee MONTPELIER – Mael Le Scouezac bested 45 other students from across Vermont to win theVermont State Individual Spelling Bee on Wednesday. Mael, a seventh grader [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=573&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rowland Foundation Announces 2010 Fellows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Trustees of The Rowland Foundation, a Vermont-based foundation focused on improving secondary education in the state has announced its 2010 fellowships.  The Foundation received many applications from Vermont teachers, ten of whom were selected as finalists and interviewed by the Foundation’s Executive Director, Charles W. Scranton, formerly the headmaster of Burr and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=570&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Out Loud State Finals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to John Marshall for placing first in the 2010 Poetry Out Loud State Finals. Marshall is a 10th grader from Sharon Academy in Sharon, Vermont. He and 33 other students competed from around the state. Marshall will receive $200 and his school is also awarded $500 to purchase poetry books. Marshall will be traveling, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=561&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathcounts State Finals Are Aproaching!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Randolph Union High School The top teams and individuals from each of the MATHCOUNTS Regional Competitions will compete in the Vermont MATHCOUNTS Statewide Competition on Saturday, March 13 at Randolph Union High School in Randolph, Vermont. The top four individuals from the State Competition will form the Vermont team that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transformvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921289&amp;post=559&amp;subd=transformvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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