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Source: baltimoresun.co Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
Even as Baltimore principals have been given an unprecedented amount of responsibility over the past four years under schools CEO Andrés Alonso, their average salary....
Source: seattletimes.nw Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
House Republicans offered a "fund education first" budget Thursday, highlighting what they depicted as $580 million more for K-12 public schools than Gov. Chris....
Source: wildcat.arizona Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discussed issues in higher education during a conference call with student journalists across....
Source: statesmanjourna Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
Students of color and those still learning English continue to drop out in greater numbers than their peers, advocates for those groups said Thursday at the state....
Source: ABC News Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman....
Source: CBS News Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
School officials questioned how an elementary school teacher suspected of taking bizarre bondage-style photographs of children in his class went undetected for years....
Source: thenewstribune. Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
A bill that requires the state to pass the K-12 education budget before all other budgets found support at a House committee hearing this week, but educators and....
Source: nashvillescene. Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
Late last year, the Wednesday night before Christmas, architect Jim Hastings and his wife Stephanie hosted a cocktail party at their Belle Meade home. An open bar....
Source: newsok.com Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
OK's top higher education official says he thinks the Obama administration's higher education agenda is the wrong approach to ensuring college affordability. Advertisement ....
Source: delmarvanow.com Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman....
Opinions and Commentaries
Source: blogs.riverfron Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute for Advancing Educational Excellence just released its comprehensive State of State Science Standards 2012 report, which grades each....
Source: New York Times Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
The United States Supreme Court refused in December to intervene in a 16-year legal battle against New York City’s prohibition on the use of schools for religious....
Source: New York Times Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
Can you blame them? After last week’s study showing that student achievement is higher in the city’s new, small high schools — and city officials reiterated their....
Source: studlife.com Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
As the saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. With the current field of Republican candidates, a corollary certainly holds true: truth is funnier....
Source: thehill.com Posted By: Maxcy J...3 days ago
President Obama’s State of the Union address and his speech at the University of Michigan made broad sweeping comments about education and the issue of rising college....
Source: oregonlive.com Posted By: Maxcy J...3 days ago
This is a pivotal moment for education in Oregon. For the first time in over a decade, state and federal leaders are overhauling the way Oregon schools are held....
Source: NPR Posted By: andrew S...4 days ago
Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, and an author. It's that time of the year....
Source: Fox News Posted By: andrew S...4 days ago
In its initial review of No Child Left Behind waiver requests, the U.S. Education Department highlighted a similar weakness in nearly every application: States did....
Source: nj.com Posted By: Ronny F...5 days ago
Plans by Gov. Chris Christie to reshuffle the state's university system means a new chapter for Rowan University in Gloucester County. Christie’s plan calls for....
Source: thenewsstar.com Posted By: Ronny F...5 days ago
With nearly two months before lawmakers even consider a single education bill, the rhetorical fight is hot and heavy between Gov. Bobby Jindal and the teacher unions....
Campus News
Source: businessweek.co Posted By: A. Owen..17 hours 22 minutes ago
The U.S. Education Department is probing complaints that Harvard University and Princeton University discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions. The....
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
The University of Iowa has agreed to a $130,000 settlement with a former student who was pressured to let a troubled political science professor fondle her in exchange....
Source: huffingtonpost. Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous....
Source: Market Watch Posted By: Billy T...2 days ago
The Ohio State University and Huntington Bank /quotes/zigman/73472/quotes/nls/hban HBAN -0.71% today announced an exclusive 15-year partnership, making it the university's....
Source: yaledailynews.c Posted By: Ronny F...5 days ago
While Yale students pursuing degrees in science or math can choose among 23 majors, such students at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore will have only three majors....
Source: unlvrebelyell.c Posted By: Ronny F...5 days ago
UNLV’s residence halls are currently at about 50 percent occupancy, but a new effort is aimed at bolstering traffic in — and revenue from — campus housing facilities. Student....
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Brandy R...8 days ago
The University of Maryland on Thursday lost successful women’s soccer coach Brian Pensky to Tennessee, a program with big ambitions and, apparently, more money to....
Source: mercurynews.com Posted By: Brandy R...8 days ago
San Jose State University said that a man in his 20s groped a victim in a high-rise dormitory and was trying to open doors to get into rooms. In a Twitter alert....
Source: pennlive.com Posted By: brad S...9 days ago
The university that fired Joe Paterno over the phone in November after 62 seasons of coaching has had to turn around and recast him as an icon upon his death in....
Source: Market Watch Posted By: Nancy W...11 days ago
For the fourth consecutive year, the Fraser Institute is ranked as the top think-tank in Canada, and has for the last two years been the only Canadian organization....
Other News
Source: blogs.riverfron Posted By: Valerie M...1 days ago
The nation's leanest state is taking its sweet time as it considers a proposal aimed at getting junk food out of schools. A Colorado House committee was expected....
Source: svherald.com Posted By: Maxcy J...3 days ago
Apple has once again changed the landscape of technology but this time instead of creating new devices they have focused on education. Last week, Apple introduced....
Source: Fox News Posted By: Brandy R...8 days ago
A suburban Philadelphia middle school's ban on a popular type of fur-lined boots isn't about fashion, it's about cellphones. Pottstown Middle School parents were....
Source: CNN Posted By: Anna C...12 days ago
More and more schools are jumping on the digital bandwagon and adopting iPads for daily use in the classroom. Apple's education-related announcements last week will....
Source: pcmag.com Posted By: Hilmer J...17 days ago
Apple is making an "education announcement" this Thursday at New York City's Guggenheim Museum, but what exactly is the company revealing? Since the company....
Source: content.usatoda Posted By: Brandy R...18 days ago
The iPod generation is finding itself in harm's way when it comes to listening to music while taking city strolls. As iPods and other personal music devices has....
Source: heraldsun.com.a Posted By: Gigi D...24 days ago
Warren Lewis, an 18-year-old senior at North Forest High School, about 21km northeast of downtown Houston, allegedly shot the ninth-grader in an upstairs hallway....
Source: fool.com Posted By: Melody D...26 days ago
Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want? One thing's....
Source: stateimpact.npr Posted By: Jacky S...38 days ago
1. School funding. School funding. School funding. Look for a new K-12 school funding model from Columbus in the first part of 2012. The previous model was scrapped....
Source: celebs.gather.c Posted By: anny J...46 days ago
Justin Bieber went back to school! Bieber stopped in to a Las Vegas, Nevada elementary school and gave the kids an amazing gift...a concert of his new Christmas....