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Romney Shifts Focus To Education, Teachers' Unions

AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, wel...

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Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: School Attendance, Education News, Poverty, Education Poverty, Student Dropout Rate, Robert Balfanz, New York City Schools, Chronic Absenteeism, Education, Poverty and Education, Education Department, Education and Poverty, Dropout Crisis, Dropout Rate, Las Vegas Schools, Get Schooled, Baltimore Schools, Education News

Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...

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To Improve The Economy, America Needs More College Graduates

Bloomberg View | Jonathan Alter | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, Video, Unemployment Rate, Bloomberg View, Rahm Emanuel, Education Department, Majoring in Debt, Harvard, Student Loans, Pell Grants, Business News

From Bloomberg View Anyone with half a brain knows that bolstering the middle class is critical to securing the future of the U.S. It’s a matter ...

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Will Obama's 'Skills Crisis' Fix Pay Off?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.30.2012

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan traveled to a community college in the middle of Iowa to announce Thursday what he called a "transformation" o...

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Officials Attack School-To-Prison Pipeline At School Justice Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Judith Kaye, Education, Russlynn Ali, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Education News

Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...

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Activists Push To Curtail Schools' 'Heinous Practices' Against Students

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hop...

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Are Black Students In LA Racially Profiled?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: School Discipline, LA Black Students LA Men of Color, Latino Students LA, Achievement Gap, Black Suspension Rates, Los Angeles Men of Color, Los Angeles Suspension, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Education, Education Department, LA Suspension, Los Angeles Black Students, Education Disparity, Los Angeles News

If you are a black student in Los Angeles, you are almost three times more likely to be suspended than if you are any other race, according to new dat...

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Black, Hispanic Students Face More Suspensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012

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Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...

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26 States Seek Relief From No Child Left Behind

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 02.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- More than half of all states applied by this week's new deadline to be freed from the most strenuous requirements of the Bush-era No Chi...

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New Obama Plan To Help Math, Science Teacher Prep

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.08.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he...

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Education Department Seeks Public Input To Prevent Cheating In Schools

AP | Posted 01.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Education Department wants the public's input to develop guidelines to prevent and detect cheating. The effort comes after several c...

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Jon Huntsman: As President, I'll Modernize U.S. Education

Posted 03.04.2012

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Jon Huntsman, like his GOP opponents, wants to localize education, and he's taken to the presses to hash out his educational platform. In a Sunday ...

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9 States Win Race To The Top Early Learning Grant

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 02.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — Nine states won a collective $500 million Friday from the federal government to help make pre-K and other early learning programs m...

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Obama's Educational Report Card Grade Is F

Alan Singer | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Education, Linda Darling-Hammond, Arne Duncan, Secondary Schools, Lobbying, Education Department, Proprietary Schools, No Child Left Behind, Nancy Pelosi, Race to the Top, Education Reform, Higher Education, Green Party, Barack Obama, Education News
Alan Singer

Obama's educational plan not only fails according to my standards, but worse, it fails according to his own.

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Report: 1 In 45 U.S. Children Is Homeless

USA Today | Marisol Bello | Posted 12.13.2011

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One in 45 children in the USA — 1.6 million children — were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other familie...

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School Board Member Who Took State High School Exam: Tests Lack Accountability

Posted 12.08.2011

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To take state standardized exams to the test, a Florida school board member sat down to take a version of the state's high-stakes 10th grade math and ...

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Education Department Analysis Of State Bullying Laws Shows Improvement, Room For Growth

Posted 02.05.2012

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Most states now have bullying laws that require schools to adopt bullying policies, and efforts to combat school bullying have escalated over the last...

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When Computers Become Classrooms

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.30.2011

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The digital revolution has officially hit America's classrooms. As school districts nationwide cut back on essentials, three quarters of them plan ...

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Staggering Number Of Foster Kids Don't Finish High School, College

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 12.31.2011

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When Carey Sommer entered foster care in California, he left his mom, his high school and his friends. Bounced from home to home, he changed high scho...

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Harkin's Education Bill Draft Shows A Federal Rollback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.10.2011

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An early draft of a Senate committee's sweeping rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act rolls back major accountability provisions of th...

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How Widespread Is Online Bullying Among Young People?

AP | CONNIE CASS and STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 11.27.2011

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WASHINGTON — Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she'd even ventured onto the Internet. Someone s...

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Arne Duncan: Obama's Jobs Bill Would Save 280,000 Teaching Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2011

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CHICAGO -- America's two largest teachers unions, which have often clashed with the Obama administration on education policies, praised the president ...

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Congress Returns To Face Education Funding Issues And ESEA

Education Week | Alyson Klein | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Congress, Esea, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Education Department, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, The Education Trust, Supercommittee, Education Reform, Star Schools Distance Learning Program, American School Counselors Association, Job Creation, 21st Century School Fund, Kate Tromble, Education News

Congress returns from its summer recess this week with a full plate of unfinished business on the future of K-12 spending and policy--a tall order in ...

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Michele Bachmann Suggests Axing The Education Department

Posted 11.05.2011

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), told a forum today that if elected president, she would consider cutting several federal programs and institutions, i...

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Montana Reaches Compromise With Education Department On No Child Left Behind

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Education News, Montana Schools, Justin Hamilton, Education, Arne Duncan, Education Department, No Child Left Behind, Denise Juneau, No Child Left Behind Waivers, Education News

Montana is no longer in jeopardy of losing federal funding for its schools since the state has come to a compromise with the U.S. Education Department...

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