Wiregrass Ranch High School student Nicolette Doria, left, uses her cell phone to shoot photos, while Alexia Browne uses a digital camera, during their science class in Wesley Chapel, Fla., on Nov. 4.
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Teachers Using Cellphones for Classroom Lessons

A Florida high school is one of a growing number of schools around the country that are abandoning traditional policies of cellphone prohibition and incorporating them into class lessons. (November 30, 2009, AP)

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Duncan Aims to Make Incentives Key Element of ESEA

The education secretary wants a reauthorized law to reward high-performing schools, districts, and states.

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Reflecting his on-the-ground experience, the new director of the Institute of Education Sciences wants studies that are useful to the field.

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