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Indiana Public Schools Wage Desperate Ad Campaign To Keep Students

AP | TOM COYNE | Posted 08.20.2012 | Home
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Struggling Indiana public school districts are buying billboard space, airing radio ads and even sending principals door-to-door i...

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Has Teach For America Betrayed Its Mission?

Reuters | Posted 10.16.2012 | Home
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By Stephanie Simon Aug 16 (Reuters) - When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she d...

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Feds Open $400 Million Education Grant Competition To 'Anemic' Response

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 08.12.2012 | Home
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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the T...

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Cash-Poor Schools Poach Students From Rivals To Boost Rosters, Funding

Reuters | Posted 05.07.2012 | Home
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By Stephanie Simon March 8 (Reuters) - As American public school administrators look to bring in more money by recruiting students ov...

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Justin Bieber Stages Concert At Las Vegas Elementary School For Underserved Students

AP | MICHELLE RINDELS | Posted 02.15.2012 | Home
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LAS VEGAS — Fifth-grader Jolie Leach says she "was gonna explode" with excitement when Justin Bieber performed a concert at her Las Vegas school...

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Should Schools Alone Be Held Accountable For Student Achievement?

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.31.2012 | Home
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This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. What if schools didn't have to work alone to improve student achievem...

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The Global Search for Education: The 20%

C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.08.2012 | Home
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C. M. Rubin

The impact of poverty is significant in the outcomes of children in America's education system. So what should we be doing to support the approximate 20 percent of U.S. school children who live in poverty?

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The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Change

C. M. Rubin | Posted 10.16.2011 | Home
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C. M. Rubin

2011-08-16-Screenshot20110816at10.29.10AM.jpg Change is painful. Change takes time. Change is trial and error.

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Why Affluent Parents Are Keeping Their Kids In Lower-Rated and Poor Schools

The Washington Post | Jay Matthews | Posted 09.10.2011 | Home
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For many years, families in the tree-filled Wakefield Chapel neighborhood of Fairfax County heard experts predict the school system would eventually m...

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Poor Schools Continue To Have High Rates Of Unqualified Teachers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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According to a recent report published by the Education Trust, there continue to be high rates of unqualified teachers in American schools. Many are ...

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Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan"

Cheryl Lubin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Cheryl Lubin

As a high school teacher who dips into my own wallet to buy paper and pencils for students in the second largest school district in the land, I recognize the dangers of a pro-voucher McCain administration. Vouchers are not, as Obama so succinctly put it, the panacea for failing schools.

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