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Romney Pushes School Vouchers, Federal Rollback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Education News, Politics News, Video, Education, Mitt Romney Education, Mitt Romney 2012, No Child Left Behind, George W. Bush, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Primary, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Education, Ed-Lection 2012, Education News

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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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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A States' Rights Revolt Led by ... California?

Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Esea, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Arne Duncan, Nclb Waivers, No Child Left Behind, Jerry Brown, Nclb, Education News

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind) that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

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Group Writes Scathing Report: What Kind Of President Would Romney Be On Education?

Posted 05.04.2012

President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney haven't been talking much about education's toughest questions aside from recent attention o...

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Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Education, Sam Chaltain, No Child Left Behind, Blue Man Group, Elementary School, Education Reform, Accountability, Learning, Video, Education News

What makes the Blue School's framework exciting is its commitment to explicitly link everything it does to the latest research about how the brain works, and about how people learn.

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Can Sleeping Improve School Performance?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Education News, Education Next, Teacher Evaluation, No Child Left Behind, Fairfax County Schools, Standardized Tests, Student Sleep, Teen Sleep, School Start Times, Jonah Rockoff, Sleeping In, Education, Columbia University, Harvard University, School Sports, Ann Arbor Schools, Standardized Testing, Sleep, Education News

In high school, Melissa Edwards woke up at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus. It was dark, she was tired and the school's 7:15 a.m. morning bell forced the St....

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Major Test Prep Company Fraudulently Claimed Millions In Federal Tutoring Funds

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Underperforming Schools, Princeton Review Fraud, Underprivileged Students, No Child Left Behind, New York City, New York, New York City Schools, Tutoring, Video, Low-Performing Students, Standardized Testing, School Tutoring, New York Schools, Nclb, Supplemental Education Services, Princeton Review, Education News

Federal prosecutors say The Princeton Review, a leading test-preparation company, fraudulently claimed "millions of dollars" of federal money for tuto...

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Making Sense of Your Child's Standardized Test Scores

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Tests, Standardized Testing, Education, Parenting, School, Kids, No Child Left Behind, Parents, Standardized Test Scores, Criterion Referenced Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Parents News

Coloring inside the lines didn't carry high stakes when we were kids. But for our children growing up in the era of No-Child-Left-Behind, coloring in ...

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The State Tests Are Over (Should It Be for Good?)

Cory Zacker | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Teaching to the Test, Public School, Math Exam, Tutoring, ELA Exam, State Tests, No Child Left Behind, Education News

Yes, there has to be accountability, but at what cost? Students are spending valuable classroom time doing test prep for months. It's time for this to change and everyone knows it.

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Public Schools Start Tracking Alumni In College

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Education News, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Education, Arne Duncan, Poverty and Education, College Completion, High School Graduation, College, College Graduation, No Child Left Behind, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Gates Foundation, Education News

From the federal government to school boards, policymakers and administrators are increasingly setting their sights on "college and career readiness" ...

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How Schools Are Killing Creativity

Line Dalile | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Obama Race to the Top, Education Reform, Obama Education, Race to the Top, Creativity, No Child Left Behind, Teen News

Our methodologies in schools are demolishing creativity. Students have lost their capacity of creation simply because our teaching methods don't stimulate innovation and free-thinking.

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Top Schools Deemed 'In Need Of Improvement' Under Federal Law

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Public Schools, New York Schools, New Hampshire Schools, Nashua New Hampshire, No Child Left Behind, Adequate Yearly Progress, Arne Duncan, Standardized Testing, School Ratings, Ayp, School Rankings, State Mandated Testing, Nashua Schools, Nclb, Video, Education News

Griffin Memorial School in Litchfield, N.H. had 91 percent of its elementary students score proficient or better on the state's reading exam last fall...

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Building on the Values of No Child Left Behind

Eric Smith | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: George W. Bush Institute, Nclb, George W. Bush, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Education News

Over the last decade, the United States has witnessed a dramatic improvement in student performance -- especially among previously underserved students at the lowest socioeconomic rungs. Those gains were in large part the result strong accountability systems.

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Publishing Teacher Effectiveness Rankings Draws More Criticism

| Louis Freedberg | Posted 04.02.2012

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This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. The release last month of "value-added" rankings of New York City teachers based on...

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Graduation Rates Are Increasing, But Not Fast Enough for Latino Students

National Council of La Raza | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Alliance for Excellent Education, Civic-Enterprises, Nclr, Latino, No Child Left Behind, K12 Education, Everyone-Graduates-Center, National Council of La Raza, Education Reform, Nclb, America's Promise Alliance, Latino Voices News

The message to federal policymakers should be clear. We need to maintain a strong focus on graduation rates; ten seats in every classroom is a terrible thing to waste.

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High Stakes Testing: Who's Cheating Whom?

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Testing, Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Student Achievement, National Education Association, No Child Left Behind, Teachers Unions, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Accountability, Nclb, Education News

Let's get back to the core purpose of public education -- ensuring students have access to a great education that prepares them for lifelong learning and success -- and leave the pressure cooker for pot roasts.

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Schools Nationwide Flagged For Possible Cheating, Some Question Analysis

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigat...

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Education Is a 'Both-And' Issue

Martin J. Blank | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Poverty, Community Schools, Undefeated Documentary, Education Reform, Broader Bolder Alliance, Education News

Recent reports suggest that the "both-and" approach of community schools - effective teachers, more opportunity and support -- is a great strategy for helping kids succeed.

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Why Is Miss Grundy So Sad? It's Complicated.

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

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For the last four years, Beth Sanders has taught ninth and 11th-grade social studies at Tarrant High School in Birmingham, Ala., a school where many s...

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Policy Leaders: National Security, Prosperity At Risk By Way Of Current School System

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.20.2012

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Thirty years ago, a Reagan administration report warned of "a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." The ...

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Creationism In Louisiana? Maybe Not!

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Louisiana, Creationism, The Clergy Letter Project, Rick Santorum, Evolution, Doonesbury, Religion and Science, Religion News

We've reached the point where expertise is something to be shunned. The opinion of the scientific community is criticized, while the opinion of educators is to be avoided.

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Science and Santorum

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Evolution, Global Warming Deniers, No Child Left Behind, Politics News

My apologies to Bachmann and Perry. They were not the only science skeptics among the Republican candidates. Mr. Santorum is their equal.

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For One Indiana School, Standardized Testing Is A Literary Genre

Posted 05.13.2012

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On the lesson plan for one Indiana school's students: historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction and ... standardized testing. In his January State of ...

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Kick-the-Can America

Charles Kolb | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Education, Education Reform, No Child Left Behind, Nclb, Education News

As a nation, we are often quite good at setting goals -- but in reality we are missing them now more often than we meet them. It wasn't always this way.

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Senator Planning Early Education Bill To Help Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Education News, Early Education, Education, No Child Left Behind, Tom Harkin, Al Franken, James Heckman, 112th Congress, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten, Education Reform, Pre-K, Senator Tom Harkin, Education News

When Sen. Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he...

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