News Briefs
April 22, 2008
First lady Laura Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings visited a class of 1st grade students at in Washington as part of a week recognizing the Teach For America program.
April 15, 2008
Education policy wonks are gearing up to commemorate the 25th anniversary next week of A Nation at Risk, the report that memorably warned Americans that their society’s educational foundations were “being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity.”
April 1, 2008
Infants who experience insecure access to food will be less cognitively advanced when they become toddlers, compared with infants who had consistent access to food, concludes a study.
March 14, 2008
February 20, 2008
Federal health officials have issued a warning about the dangers of the “choking game” after determining that at least 82 youths have died in the past 12 years.
February 19, 2008
May 2, 2008
In some districts, school lunch menus are being pared down to fewer selections, instead of the array of healthy options districts would like to offer.
April 29, 2008
For more than 72 million children around the globe, school is not yet an option.
April 29, 2008
A growing body of research is revealing the potential benefits of using board games in the classroom to strengthen the mathematics skills of children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
April 29, 2008
Public school teachers earn much less than comparably educated and experienced people.
The findings from this year's report underscore that to earn a decent wage in the United States, young people need to anticipate completing at least some college.