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Where Does A Teacher’s Dues Check Go?

| Sarah Darville | Posted 03.14.2013 | New York
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Every two weeks, $49.89 is taken out of New York City teachers’ paychecks as union dues. Other jobs have different dues amounts, ranging from $24.95...

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Teaching Meaning: The Struggle To Connect In Remote Alaskan Villages

| Sarah Garland | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: The Hechinger Report, Video, Minorities Education, Education, Education Alaska, Education Disparity, Education Issues, Politics News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Wagner Iworrigan, a 17-year-old high school senior on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, knows...

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L.A.'s College-Prep Push Is Based On False Data

| Sarah Butrymowicz and Howard Blume | Posted 01.28.2013 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Eleven years ago, the San Jose school district began requiring all students to pass the cl...

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New Pressure On Colleges To Disclose Grads' Earnings

| Jon Marcus | Posted 01.17.2013 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Joyce English was about to start studying toward an associate degree she hoped would lead ...

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New Teacher Evaluation Systems In Tennessee Have Rough Road Ahead

| Sarah Garland | Posted 04.08.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the first in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comme...

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As Some Schools Plunge Into Technology, Poor Schools Are Left Behind

| Nick Pandolfo | Posted 03.25.2012 | Home
Read More: Bronzeville Scholastic Institute, Education Technology, Integrated Educational Strategies, Dusable High School, International Association for K-12 Online Learning, Best Practice High School, Illinois Education, Deerfield Public Schools District, Chicago South Side, The Hechinger Report, School Technology, Video, Chicago Public Schools, Digital Education, Chicago Schools, Chicago Education, Chicago, Technology in Schools, Chicago Quest Charter School, School Computers, Home News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. CHICAGO -- On a recent Friday morning, 15-year-old Jerod Franklin stared at his hands as h...

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In Global Education Race, U.S. Is Falling Behind

Justin Snider | Posted 12.17.2011 | Home
Read More: Workforce, India, Thomas Friedman, England, Ivy League, Ireland, Stanford, Harvard, Recession, Canada, Oecd, Barack Obama, Yale, The Hechinger Report, Education, Michael Mandelbaum, South Korea, Great Recession, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington Post, Higher Education, Japan, China, Home News
Justin Snider

For America to avert catastrophe and regain both its educational edge and economic dominance, how -- and how urgently -- must must U.S. higher education change?

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Disproportionate Share of Turnaround Money Headed to High Schools

Sarah Garland | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: High Schools, Justin Cohen, Portland Oregon, Turnaround, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, New York, Locke High School, Hempstead, The Hechinger Report, Education, Turnaround-Grants, Sarah Garland, Education Reform, Politics News
Sarah Garland

U.S. Department of Education is handing out $3.5 billion in grants to failing schools around the country. But when it comes to turning around high schools, educators admit that no one knows exactly what works.

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Education news: Recess round-up has drama, politics and finance all in one

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Teacher Governance, Education, Teachers, Edujobs, G.I. Bill, For-Profits, Iowa, Inacol, The Hechinger Report, Senator Tom Harkin, Smarter Ideas, For-Profit Colleges, Politics News
Susan Sawyers

A round-up of this week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report. The word from Washington centered on the passage of an emerge...

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Education News: Recess Round-Up

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Education Reform, Teacher Quality, The Hechinger Report, Kipp, Edcuation News, Race to the Top, For-Profit Colleges, Impact News
Susan Sawyers

(Photo by DangApricot) A round-up of this week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report. Education in our nation has at its hear...

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