Pennsylvania is in a "critical" time for education, according to state Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis.
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6/24/2012
A team of data-processing workers inflated Columbus schools’ attendance figures by routinely and purposely removing large numbers of absent students from the rolls, four former district data analysts told The Dispatch.
6/21/2012
Missouri education officials will be testing a new teacher evaluation system in the upcoming school year.
6/19/2012
As the Baltimore school system prepares to implement a more stringent curriculum next year, sample evaluations of more than two dozen schools show that many are struggling with how to effectively teach children.
6/13/2012
What one school official calls an “ambitious alignment” will soon affect the county and state’s educational standards, assessments and accountability methods in an effort to meet the future expectations of student achievement.
6/13/2012
A relatively tiny donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created quite a stir over the past several days.
6/13/2012
The education, health and socioeconomic lot of the children of immigrants, the fastest-growing population group in the U.S., has raised concerns about how those children will perform when they enter the workforce.
6/6/2012
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today told U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan that it is unacceptable to exclude Vermont and many other rural states from a major federal grant program.
6/6/2012
The head of the Kansas Department of Education said Wednesday it's not certain that the state will be granted its waiver request from the federal government for more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act.
6/5/2012
Calling it another step to “fix what’s broken in our public schools,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday announced which school districts will test out a much-debated plan to grade teacher performance that will soon be mandatory for every teacher in the state.
6/3/2012
Alabama education officials are still reviewing a new law that establishes a statewide system for grading public schools and provides cash incentives to schools that improve their students' performance.
6/3/2012
This is the time of year when the lists of best high schools in the United States are published. For anxious consumers, the number of lists can be daunting.
5/30/2012
New York Education Commissioner John King says he's ready to restore federal funding to six low-performing schools in Buffalo.
5/29/2012
Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic has been approved by the Ohio Department of Education as a student growth measure and is now on ODE’s Approved List of Assessments that measure student growth for use by school districts and educational service centers in teacher and principal evaluations.
5/28/2012
Beachwood High School senior Scott Remer is excited about the possibility of meeting President Barack Obama when he is recognized as the first U.S. Presidential Scholar in BHS history June 16 in Washington, D.C.
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