Report Round-Up: September 24, 2010
The Federal Role in Confronting the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy from the Alliance for Excellent Education. This report calls for the federal government needs to substantially step up its role in...
View ArticleMorning Announcements: October 14, 2010
In the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes an excellent column on what the Arab country of Oman can teach us about the power of education. Politics Daily asks, Did the White House Abandon Michelle...
View ArticleKey Pieces of High School Legislation
Wondering what are the key pieces of legislation affecting high school students? Check out this recently updated fact sheet from the Alliance for Excellent Education. It includes details on:Literacy...
View ArticleMorning Announcements: February 9, 2011
The Associated Press reports that the George W. Bush Institute has introduced a new initiative, Middle School Matters, an effort to increase graduation rates by focusing on middle school student...
View ArticleCalifornia Middle School Pushes Digital-Text Initiative Forward
This Education Week video shows how Riverside Unified School in California is making progress towards adopting Governor Schwarzenegger’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative. The initiative was created to...
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Community College Estimated Growth: Fall 2010 from the American Association of Community Colleges. This report provides enrollment counts for credit enrollment 2000–2010 and finds that although...
View ArticleMorning Announcements: April 21, 2011
In an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed, a faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies writes about remediation education being at a crossroads. He asks will we, “ truly...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: September 21, 2011
Here are today's announcements! Detroit Public Schools expects to shed nearly 40 percent of its teachers in the next four years to help close a $327 million deficit, yet projects a loss of just 6,000...
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