News Briefs
President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have chosen a private school for their two daughters, opting for an institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago.
December 1, 2008
In its third annual report, the Data Quality Campaign concludes that six states have all 10 elements of a longitudinal data system that can track the academic growth of individual students from year to year, from preschool through college.
December 1, 2008
Schools wishing to hire more-effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, a new paper says.
November 25, 2008
Online petitioners are urging President-elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University education professor and an adviser to the Obama presidential campaign, as secretary of education.
November 19, 2008
Many school districts in the Washington area have canceled classes for Inauguration Day in January, or are considering that step.
November 17, 2008
As Washington was bracing for Election Day, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings traveled to Oman and the United Arab Emirates to talk about the importance of ensuring that all the world’s students have access to a high-quality education.
November 10, 2008
The double whammy of soaring tuition and stagnant wages means too many Americans are seeing college slipping out of their grasp, warns the head of a biennial report card on postsecondary education.
December 3, 2008
A six-year investigation yields a call for remaking a system that researchers see as disconnected from student-learning priorities.
December 2, 2008
Public colleges and universities in Georgia, Idaho and Nebraska are also considering drastic cost-cutting measures to make up for losses in state revenue.
December 2, 2008
In state after state, ballooning deficits are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of mandates.
December 2, 2008
Disability-group advocates were concerned that a loose standard could mean fewer opportunities for students with disabilities to earn a regular diploma.
December 1, 2008
High schools’ college counselors are tired of publications putting profit ahead of the personal experiences of the young people in our care, says Marty Elkins.
December 1, 2008
A growing number of education stakeholders are zeroing in on developing “human capital” as the key strategy to improve student learning.
December 1, 2008
Little information exists on whether the $3 billion spent annually has improved the effectiveness of U.S. educators, a report says.
December 1, 2008
The $6 billion spent on the program has helped students with basic decoding but not with understanding, a major study finds.
December 1, 2008
Updated: November 25, 2008
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