At the end of a week of activities in Washington to honor the accomplishments of the state Teachers of the Year, those teachers engaged in a conversation about how to improve the teaching profession.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | As if we all didn’t already know that getting a college degree just isn’t what it used to be, recent analysis by the Associated Press of government data proves it. Half of young college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed and …
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON – Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.
Continue Reading →Americans’ trust in the institutions that have supported our communities for generations has eroded to stunningly low levels.It’s not just declining confidence in Wall Street and Washington, far-away power centers that have long been divorced from …
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria – a move most parents support, according to a poll released on Thursd…
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The largest federal program for high schools—the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education program—would get a major makeover under a proposal that advocates expect …
Continue Reading →“You are all partners and allies in reforming public education,” Secretary Arne Duncan said last week at the National Action Network’s 14th Annual Convention in Washington. “An excellent education for very child is a moral and civic imperative,…
Continue Reading →U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on Tuesday his rural education agenda centers on four priorities: teachers, capacity, technology and college access.
Duncan’s remarks in Arlington, Va., came during the second Summit on the Role of Educati…
A handful of states are gradually adopting licensing tests that measure aspiring elementary teachers’ ability to master aspects of what’s arguably their most important task: teaching students to read.
In the most recent example of what appears to be…
Young Indian children study at an open air school in Jammu, India. A law making primary education compulsory in India came into effect, opening the door for millions of impoverished children who have never made it to school because their parents coul…
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