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With China's growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools.
October 5, 2010 - Education Week
Using Japan as an example, Gary DeCoker writes of eight ways that the new common-core standards may benefit U.S. education.
May 18, 2010 - Education Week
A new international study of teachers-in-training places Americans in the middle of the pack in elementary and middle school math.
April 16, 2010 | Updated: March 23, 2012 - Education Week
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Education authorities in Seoul, South Korea, banned corporal punishment at all schools in the capital last week.
November 9, 2010 - Education Week

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released its latest annual Education at a Glance report with a new focus on how education has affected global workers during the economic downturn.
September 14, 2010 - Education Week

A new report warns that the U.S. is slipping further behind other developed nations in academic achievement.
August 12, 2010 - Education Week

A law making primary education compulsory in India went into effect last week.
April 6, 2010 - Education Week

A report finds the number of politically and ideologically motivated attacks on teachers, students, and school buildings is rising.
February 23, 2010 - Education Week

Many public schools in Haiti reopened last week for the first time since the Jan. 12 earthquake, but most stayed closed, even in outlying provinces where damage was minimal.
February 9, 2010 - Education Week

Fear has settled over Fort Hancock, Texas, a border town about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the epicenter of that country’s bloody drug war.
April 5, 2010 - Education Week
Francis K. Schrag looks at the institutions beyond school that help develop scientific and artistic gifts, but he warns that students must have the time to participate.
March 16, 2010 - Education Week
Seven years after the U.S. went to war in Iraq, schools are welcoming thousands of refugees with big gaps in their formal education.
March 16, 2010 - Education Week
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