The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of nearly $24.4 million for 73 grants to improve instruction for English learners. Located in 28 states and the District of Columbia, the grants support a variety of professional development a…
Continue Reading →The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of nearly $24.4 million for 73 grants to improve instruction for English learners. Located in 28 states and the District of Columbia, the grants support a variety of professional development a…
Continue Reading →The March 2012 edition of “School Days,” the U.S.
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The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job.
But many borrowers these days are close to flunking out, tripped up by painful real-life lessons i…
Published Online: April 3, 2012
A senior honors student at George Washington High School in Philadelphia, Zach Morales keeps quiet about his love of reading.
—Jessica Kourkounis for NewsWorks
A week with a Washington High honors student highlights…
Continue Reading →Newspaper puts 200 districts in spotlight
A newspaper investigation that turned up unusual test-score fluctuations in about 200 school districts in a nationwide sample of 14,700 has revived a debate about cheating on standardized tests—and prompte…
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study based on research tracking students over time shows low-income students who were involved in arts activities have higher academic achievement and are more likely…
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Continue Reading →As the movement to overhaul teacher evaluation marches onward, an emerging question is splitting the swath of advocates who support the new tools used to gauge teacher performance: Who should get access to the resulting information?
As evidenced in …
In the latest round of applications for waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act, states seem to have learned lessons from their predecessors and dodged pitfalls that triggered some big revisions from first-round states.
The second-round group of …
Published Online: March 23, 2012
Secondary schools are becoming more intentional about helping students discover their career interests and map out a plan to achieve them.
About half of all states mandate that schools help create individual or stu…