Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 9:45am
Several well-heeled Democratic donors have openly split with the state party and legislative leaders over education reform, arguing Washington is falling behind because lawmakers are afraid to buck the teachers union.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 9:39am
Colleges and universities have historically obscured their tuition costs in a way that makes comparative shopping virtually impossible. And far too little information is available on graduation rates and loan default rates to help students choose wisely.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 9:29am
The release of a trove of data evaluating New York City teachers on their ability to boost student test scores represents a potentially powerful new tool for parents to assess their children's public schools.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 8:36am
A Washington state prosecutor says his office will seek probation and treatment for a 9-year-old boy who took to school a gun that accidentally discharged and critically injured a classmate this past week.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 8:31am
The Obama administration is trying to foster more public-private partnerships to help low-performing schools.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:55pm
A timeline is in place to consider plans to improve 77 Oklahoma schools that the State Department of Education has identified as underperforming in student achievement and graduation rates.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:52pm
Virginia education officials on Thursday morning finalized the state's waiver request for flexibility from some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:40pm
"To advertise or not to advertise," that is the question — at least in the minds of many school districts feeling the pinch of Pennsylvania's cuts to education spending.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:38pm
More than 170 high schools across Idaho have signed up to participate in the first one-third of schools receiving laptops in the state’s "one-to-one" initiative in 2013.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:36pm
Students at Catholic high schools in Brockton and Braintree, and others in grades 7 through 12 in Kingston, will start the next school year with iPads instead of papers and books in their backpacks, part of a growing number of schools looking to trade traditional learning tools for the latest technology.
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