A national panel of education experts is lauding Metro school leaders for creating a cooperative culture, effectively training principals and using data to make decisions.
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12/14/2011
New York is moving forward with a plan to build a database to track the academic lives of students statewide, restarting a process halted by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli over privacy concerns.
12/12/2011
Once again, schools on the nation's military bases have outperformed public schools on both reading and math tests for fourth- and eighth-graders.
12/8/2011
The Detroit Public Schools performance on a national academic test inched up this year, but the district continues to rank worst among large cities in reading and math, results released Wednesday show.
12/8/2011
Large urban school districts have made steady progress on national elementary school math and reading exams over the past nine years but continue to score far below national averages, according to federal data.
12/7/2011
A report released Wednesday by the Southern Regional Education Board urges West Virginia and other southern states to make immediate changes to improve student achievement in grades six through eight.
12/7/2011
LANSING – State Board of Education members say they don't want the cap on so-called cyber charter schools lifted until the two existing schools can be studied and there are guarantees the schools follow the same rules as brick and mortar programs.
12/7/2011
Chicago Public Schools finally showed some real progress in reading on national test results released Wednesday, but only compared to how its students fared at least seven years ago.
12/6/2011
The former chief executive of Intel wants to essentially blow up everything in public education in Arizona, from how teachers are trained to how they are paid.
12/6/2011
Cesar E. Chavez High School (Calif.) has seen great gains in pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) through the implementation of intervention programs including Revolution K12’s CAHSEE 380 and CAHSEE Intervention.
12/5/2011
Has education flat-lined in Iowa? Governor Terry Branstad says a recent survey suggests so.
12/1/2011
If parents in St. Louis could send their children tuition-free to any public school in St. Louis County, suburban schools would have an additional 13,500 students in their classrooms, a study says.
12/1/2011
Chase County Schools (CCS) showed up on a growing list of Nebraska schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress under the controversial No Child Left Behind law.
11/29/2011
Red-faced state educrats have killed a wildly unpopular plan to stick third graders with a four-hour battery of reading tests after critics ripped it in the Daily News.
11/28/2011
Through the years there have been many bitter teacher strikes and too many student protests to count. But a principals’ revolt?
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