Wednesday, June 19, 2013
 
 

By Stephanie Simon

(Reuters) - A wealthy school district in Colorado is launching a radical experiment that sets a different pay scale for each category of educator, ensuring that even the best third-grade teacher would never earn as much as a veteran high-school math teacher.

The new system, which takes effect next month for all 3,300 educators in suburban Douglas County, Colorado, has sparked fury and resentment among some teachers and some parents. But it has also drawn interest from superintendents around the nation.

"It's quite novel," said Eric Hanushek, an education economist at Stanford University.

School districts across the United States have traditionally treated all teachers the same; no matter what grade or subject they taught, they started at the same base sa   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
By Ben Hirschler

LONDON (Reuters) - Genomics and particle physics - offering different perspectives on the fundamental nature of life and the cosmos - are the two hottest areas of scientific research.

Eight of the 21 most closely followed scientists in 2012 studied ge...   [READ MORE]
 
By Robert Evans

GENEVA (Reuters) - Francois Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain's Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe.

A...   [READ MORE]
 
By Ian Simpson

OXON HILL, Maryland (Reuters) - Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old boy from Bayside Hills, New York, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling knaidel, a kind of dumpling.

Mahankali, a student at Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle S...   [READ MORE]
 
By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a satellite in orbit, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.

China launched a ...   [READ MORE]
 
By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a satellite in orbit, one U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.

China launched ...   [READ MORE]
By Tom Brown

MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather.

This is a game changer, Loui...   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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