Lesson From Chicago: We Need Resources and Accountability to Avoid a Two ...
Noted education scholar Diane Ravitch warns that Chicago is moving toward a two-tiered educational system. One tier has privately-managed charter schools and selective enrollment schools that get all the resources they need.www.huffingtonpost.com
Audit assails US education department's monitoring of federal spending on ...
Oct 25, 2012 02:15 AM EDT. AP. LOS ANGELES - An audit of the U.S. Department of Education's division overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars in charter school funding has criticized the office for failing to properly monitor how states spend the money.www.washingtonpost.com
College Board study: Year in college now averages $17860
The sticker price of in-state tuition at four-year public universities climbed about $400 this fall, an increase of nearly 5 percent that brought the average to $8,655.www.mercurynews.com
Harvard Allston Education Portal celebrates recent expansion during 5th ...
The Harvard Allston Education Portal celebrated its fifth year of programming and an expansion of its facility and its mission with a community event Tuesday that featured music by Harvard students and a lecture by faculty member Michael Sandel.www.boston.com
Software Eats Education: With $15 Million In Series B Funding, Andreessen ...
udacity-logo-284x19. Udacity, a startup focused on bringing free university-level educational worldwide, is today announcing a significant new investment: $15 million in Series B funding in a round led by top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.techcrunch.com
US education endowments post losses in fiscal 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. college and university endowments returned an average loss of 0.3 percent for fiscal 2012, down sharply from a gain of 19.2 percent a year earlier, pressured by volatile international markets during the second quarter of the ...www.reuters.com
Education ranks as high priority for Jackson County business, civic leaders
Enlarge Bill Starling | bstarling@al.com Todd Trenchard, senior vice president of business development and public relations director for Merchant and Marine Bank, left, talks to a group of local business and civic leaders Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 as his ...blog.gulflive.com
Scott unveils education agenda
Wayne Blanton, the executive director of the Florida School Boards Association, said that like other education-focused groups in the state, school boards got to weigh in with Scott as he studied up for next year's legislative session.www.tallahassee.com
Miami-Dade School District Wins Top National Education Award
One of the nation's top education prizes was won by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for its dramatic gains in achievements by black and Hispanic students and for raising academic standards across the board.www.hispanicbusiness.com
Apple iPad Mini May Not Be Best For Education, McGraw Hill Exec Says
Amid the suite of new products Apple unveiled alongside the iPad Mini at an event on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook also brought up Apple's leading role in education, highlighting the fact that the older full-size iPad had already been adopted by 2,500 ...idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com
Chicago Board of Education Oks teacher contract
CHICAGO - The Chicago Board of Education has approved a three-year contract negotiated with the Chicago Teachers Union after a strike.www.cbsnews.com
Romney, Obama differ on education ideology
With the election looming, let us take a look at where the two major candidates for president stand on education. The past four years tell us a fair amount about President Barack Obama's education priorities. He included nearly $100 billion in funds ...www.tennessean.com
In Montgomery's Board of Education race, 6 vie for 3 spots
As the Montgomery County Council continues to question the school system's spending decisions, control over the $2 billion annual operating budget remains one of the top issues for the new Board of Education to be seated after the Nov. 6 election.www.washingtonpost.com
Does Higher Education Need To Go Back To The Fifties?
I think after bashing the neoliberal consensus on education, it might be time to bash the left-liberal consensus on higher ed.www.forbes.com
NCLB Waivers: Closing Achievement Gap Requires Policy Overhaul, Not Tweaks
To date, 33 states and the District of Columbia have been granted a waiver from the requirements of No Child Left Behind. According to Education Weekly, once given the flexibility to revise their accountability system all but eight states have taken ...www.huffingtonpost.com
National Education Association Saw Budget Deficits In 15 State Affiliates In ...
EIA has posted a table on its website that lists the financial figures for NEA and its 50 state affiliates, as well as the Federal Education Association - which represents NEA teachers overseas and on military bases - the University of Hawaii ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Viewpoint: For-Profit Education is Not Dead Yet
The move comes on the heels of a late September decision by Kaplan Higher Education to stop new enrollment at nine of its sites and consolidate four campuses.ideas.time.com
Expert: Texas' booming minority population may hurt future earnings without ...
Steve Murdock, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and ex-state demographer of Texas, said studies are nearly unanimous in concluding that improved education is the key to bolstering earning power - and thus could be a major factor in reversing ...www.foxnews.com
Education reform under President Obama: Investing in the future
According to the New York Daily News, the achievements and the pro-accountability and pro-testing agenda the Obama administration has implemented in regards to education reform is one that rivals that of many self-professed "education presidents," who ...www.voxxi.com
State Education Reform Ideas Get Mixed Grades
(Source: Teresa Ristow Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. (MCT) - Southern Oregon University students and Rogue Community College staff dominated a state education forum Wednesday night - criticizing a proposed achievement-based funding model for ...www.loansafe.org
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