COMMENTARY | According to Reuters, high school education in Florida is in bad shape. Fifty percent of sophomores did not pass the reading portion of the standardized Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Days before the reading scores were released, the state’s Board of Education voted to lower standards needed to pass the writing portion. The Board’s [...]
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – The Oregon state board of education has banned public schools from using American Indian names and mascots for their athletic teams, out of a concern they disparage native American people. The move is believed to be one of the nation’s most sweeping prohibitions of its kind in favor of native Americans [...]
MIAMI (Reuters) – Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state’s new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday. Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels. Students in the 10th [...]
President Obama’s re-election campaign is courting voters in Florida and Nevada with a new, positive 30-second TV ad on higher education. The spot, which began airing Friday, features pictures of a young Obama with his mother and at school as the narrator paints a picture… Education News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Dr. David Dockterman is chief architect, learning sciences at Scholastic Education and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is an educational software pioneer and has designed dozens of award-winning instructional technology programs. Education News Headlines – Yahoo! News
New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is proposing to offer buyouts to hundreds of teachers who don’t have permanent jobs. Education News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Seattle—Nick Hanauer toddled through his early years in a cramped Greenwich Village apartment. His mother waited tables at the Bitter End. His father worked low-level jobs on Wall Street and as an editor at a publishing house. When Nick was 5, his folks left New York to join a family pillow-making business in the Pacific [...]
Kids are expensive–it’s a fact of life. If you’re like many parents, you may just grin and bear it while forking over a hundred or more dollars for the latest, greatest toys. After all, you could argue that they’re worth it. However, your money could be put to better use by saving for your kids’ [...]
The New Hampshire’s House and Senate passed similar plans Wednesday to give businesses a tax credit for donating to scholarship organizations to send students to private or public schools. Education News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Budget negotiators said Wednesday that proposals to increase spending on Kansas public schools and other government programs are joined at the hip to a pending compromise on tax cuts. Education News Headlines – Yahoo! News
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