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Campus Crusade

Paul Stoller | Posted 06.01.2012

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Paul Stoller

Mr. Romney's private equity tunnel vision may work well in the clubby atmosphere of the corporate boardroom, but is a prescription for the rapid spread of educational mediocrity.

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Joy Resmovits

Race To The Top Adds School Districts To U.S. Education Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.22.2012

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Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department's $4.35 billion contest, is getting personal. The competition this year opens $400 million in grant ...

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Sam Stein

Romney Backs Obama's Proposal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Marking the first philosophical convergence of the general election season, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Monday t...

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Joy Resmovits

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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Rollercoasters and Life's Lessons

Netosh Jones | Posted 04.18.2012

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Netosh Jones

Dr. Frazier applied her physics expertise in a way that captured our students' imaginations. The students were enthralled by the topic and Dr. Frazier's own enthusiasm for the subject.

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How Schools Are Killing Creativity

Line Dalile | Posted 04.10.2012

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Line Dalile

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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Joy Resmovits

What Do Teachers Think About Education Reform?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.26.2012

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Revamping the makeup of the teaching profession through tweaks such as altering tenure and teacher evaluations has become a policy debate du jour, one...

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Joy Resmovits

Teachers Can't Get No Satisfaction, Says Survey

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.07.2012

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After a year that brought budget cuts, booming class sizes, radical hiring changes and governors who curtailed collective-bargaining rights, teachers'...

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Joy Resmovits

Race To The Top -- Coming To A City Near You

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.02.2012

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Opening a new phase for the Obama administration's role in education reform, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sig...

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Joy Resmovits

How Sleuths Catch Cheater Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.01.2012

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The first time Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County, Georgia, district attorney, interviewed educators suspected of cheating on exams in 56 Atlanta scho...

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Competing With Love

Somik Raha | Posted 04.29.2012

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Somik Raha

Talking to others, I know now that my experience is in no way unique -- anyone who has truly excelled in anything has fallen in love.

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Obama Makes Bold Challenge To Governors

AP | By BETH FOUHY | Posted 04.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama Monday urged the nation's governors to invest more state resources in education, saying a highly skilled workforc...

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Joy Resmovits

Separate But Equal? Policy Brief Aims To Ensure Charter Schools Aren't.

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.24.2012

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Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery -- and...

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Amazing Teen Innovators Honored At White House Science Fair!

Posted 02.10.2012

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It's no secret that we love stories of amazing teens here at HuffPost High School. So naturally, we're pretty thrilled about what a fantastic year 20...

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College Affordability: A Defining Issue That Won't Go Away

David J. Skorton | Posted 04.06.2012

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David J. Skorton

In the wake of President Obama's State of the Union Address last month, many Americans are talking about college affordability. As well they should. The cost of college is a defining issue for our country.

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Live by your Word, Mr. President

Nikhil Goyal | Posted 03.31.2012

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Nikhil Goyal

Education does not need to be reformed -- it needs to be revolutionized. Educators, politicians, students, and parents needs to ask themselves: How can we make school the best hours of a kid's day?

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QUICK POLL: Should You Have To Stay In School Until You Turn 18?

Posted 01.25.2012

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Who watched the State of the Union yesterday? Check out the recap of everything Obama talked about here (and our blogger's predictions for the evening...

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Joy Resmovits

Learning From Finland's Classrooms

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.24.2012

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STANFORD, Calif. -- Finland is this decade's shiny icon of classroom success, the repeat winner of top results in a global ranking of national school ...

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Joy Resmovits

10 Years Of No Child Left Behind: Was It Worth It?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.06.2012

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When President George W. Bush joined congressmen John Boehner, George Miller and Edward Kennedy to sign the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, ...

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Compete to Succeed in Motown

Annis Brown | Posted 01.03.2012

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Annis Brown

Here's a new headline: growing evidence from hundreds of schools across the country demonstrates that we can turn the tide on American students' reading and math scores.

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Obama Delivers Back-To-School Speech

Posted 11.28.2011

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By Kimberly Hefling, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told students Wednesday in a back-to-school address that they bear ...

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Have the Bush-Obama School Reforms Helped Our Inner-Cities?

Marc Epstein | Posted 11.22.2011

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Marc Epstein

In a few short months NCLB will have been part of the public policy landscape for 10 years. When it's birthday rolls around in January what should we celebrate?

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Arne Duncan: Schools Will Get Testing Waivers

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 10.07.2011

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The Obama administration effectively gutted the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law Monday, giving states a way out of a decade-long policy that focused...

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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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Tyler Kingkade

No Child Left Behind: Frustrated Educators, Advocates Call For Overhaul

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Education leaders, teachers and their advocates gathered at the American Federation of Teachers national conference this week and expres...

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