More California students are taking and performing well on a national test that assesses college and career readiness - and scoring significantly higher than the national average, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced this week.
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8/23/2012
Members of the Carroll County Board of Education expressed concerns Wednesday at a work session with school officials about the growing list of necessary school construction projects.
8/23/2012
Pass a city school bus that has its lights flashing, and you may soon find a summons in your mailbox.
8/23/2012
It might have once seemed unthinkable: Handing the keys to a large, troubled public-school district over to a high-profile advocate for increasing privatization, including vouchers and for-profit private schools.
8/23/2012
Rick Hauf travels to schools all around Maryland. In Harford County, he says educational opportunity is tilted. "We're not on a level playing field," Hauf said.
8/23/2012
Four revisions have been made to the contract the Jersey City Board of Education is offering prospective schools superintendent Marcia V. Lyles, and the new pact now awaits approval from Lyles and from state education officials.
8/23/2012
The iPad became a big hit in the K-12 education market over the past year. Pioneering schools that brought Apple’s tablet into the classroom last school year proved that the iPad can be a excellent learning tool – one that has immense power to transform education.
8/23/2012
Three Metro Detroit school districts are among 14 statewide that will be test laboratories for teacher evaluation tools this fall.
8/22/2012
The Madison school board on Monday approved hiring two teachers, one of whom will begin laying the groundwork for a possible orchestra program.
8/22/2012
The Mercer Island School District Board of Directors held a study session meeting on Thursday, Aug. 16, so that the board could further discuss, and possibly narrow down, options for a sixth school within the district.
8/22/2012
Tenth-graders made a little headway in passing the California High School Exit Exam the first time they take it, according to results released today, Aug. 22, by the California Department of Education.
8/22/2012
A new, five-year road map for improving achievement in the low-performing Syracuse schools sets five goals for the district to achieve and timelines for the district to get there.
8/22/2012
We’re still a long way from flying school buses and holographic instructors, but more than ever, schools are tapping digital technology to upgrade the learning experience.
8/22/2012
Plainfield police would like to put some extra firepower in the village’s high schools.
8/22/2012
Oregon high schools have made near-zero progress in getting more students to graduate with the skills they need to pass college classes, the ACT testing organization reported today.
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