Barack Obama Education

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Romney Pushes School Vouchers, Federal Rollback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.23.2012

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In a week-long series of campaign activities that began Wednesday with an address to the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit, former Massachuset...

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Expert: American Scores 'Unacceptable' On National Science Exams

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.10.2012

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About a third of eighth-graders who took a national science exam in 2011 were proficient, according to results released Thursday, a statistic called "...

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Will Education Be A Decisive Election Issue In 2012?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012

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After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

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Harkin, Ryan Spar Over Littlest Learners

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.29.2012

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Even as a growing body of research attests to the importance of early childhood education as an antidote to poverty, the House is preparing to pass a ...

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Joy Resmovits

Will Congress Prevent Student-Loan Interest Rates From Doubling?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

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Spencer Pritchard, a first-year political economics student at University of California, Berkeley, has less control over his professional career than...

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Obama: 'The Only Reason I'm Here Is Because Someone Invested In Me'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.23.2011

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If you could sit down for dinner with the President of the United States, what would you ask him? Retired school teacher Juanita Martinez of Bright...

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Measuring Teacher "Diversity" in a Segregated School System

Michelle Chen | Posted 01.18.2012

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Michelle Chen

A classroom in an underserved community encapsulates countless obstacles and missed opportunities. Teachers should understand and empathize with the community they work in.

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In First Round, 11 States Look To Dump No Child Left Behind

Posted 01.15.2012

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The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that 11 states have formally submitted requests for waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Be...

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Obama Meets With Corporate CEOs To Fundraise For U.S. Education

Posted 09.17.2011

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President Barack Obama hosts an education roundtable today with some of his top education staff and several of the nation's most prominent CEOs to enc...

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Sam Stein

Obama's Stimulus Reaps Rewards: Major Education Union Begins 2012 Endorsement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The National Education Association’s decision on Friday to begin the formal process of endorsing President Barack Obama’s re-electio...

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Matt Damon Calls Out President Obama

Posted 05.25.2011

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This is not the man he voted for. Matt Damon sat down with Piers Morgan for an interview that will air Thursday night, and among other things, talked...

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Obama Proposes Sweeping Education Reforms, New Federal Commitment To Kids

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in impro...

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Transform Education? Yes, We Must

Sir Ken Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sir Ken Robinson

Economically and culturally, the future of America and of the rest of world lies now in a different direction. It will depend on the vitality, diversity and creativity of all its people.

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NEA to Democrats: Come and Get It

Michele McNeil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michele McNeil

As Democrats continue to fight over who should be their nominee, the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association, wants to re...

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