http://www.mail.com/people/73846-randi-weingarten.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/73846-randi-weingarten.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2160082-education-dept-offers-time-to-reach-goals.html WASHINGTON (AP) — States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told school chiefs on Tuesday. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have earned permission from the Education Department to ignore parts of the No Child Left Behind educ... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:38:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2160082-education-dept-offers-time-to-reach-goals.html 2013-06-18T21:38:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2128624-senate-introduces-child-left-successor.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The one-sized-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under legislation Senate Democrats announced Tuesday. The state-by-state approach to education standards is already largely in place in the 37 states that received waivers to the requirements in exchange for c... Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:05:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2128624-senate-introduces-child-left-successor.html 2013-06-04T21:05:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070600-rural-wva-schools-rethink-their-role.html WAR, W.Va. (AP) — When school started here in the fall, 1 out of 7 classrooms was without a teacher; leaders couldn't recruit enough educators to this sparsely populated rural area at the southern tip of West Virginia. When officials turned on the mandatory security cameras at one elementary school, the rest of the building lost its Internet connection; t... Wed, 08 May 2013 07:31:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070600-rural-wva-schools-rethink-their-role.html 2013-05-08T07:31:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2053362-teachers-head-link-tests-to-evaluations-yet.html NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the country's second-largest teachers union said Tuesday governments should hold off on linking standardized test results with evaluations of schools, students and teachers until everyone is on the same page. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called for a moratorium on penalties associated with... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:48:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2053362-teachers-head-link-tests-to-evaluations-yet.html 2013-04-30T17:48:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1993132-nra-study-suggests-trained-armed-school-staffers.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train selected staffers as armed security officers. The former Republican congressman who headed the study suggested at least one protector with firearms for every school, saying it would speed responses to attacks. ... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:08:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1993132-nra-study-suggests-trained-armed-school-staffers.html 2013-04-02T22:08:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962728-decade-criticism-student-grouping-rises.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together — a practice once frowned upon — according to a review of federal education surveys. The Brookings Institution report released Monday shows a dramatic increase in both ability group... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:09:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962728-decade-criticism-student-grouping-rises.html 2013-03-18T22:09:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1941768-philly-coming-to-grips-with-mass-school-closings.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When ninth-grader Zach Kaufmann found out his school was one of 27 targeted for closure in Philadelphia, he fought back. He joined a youth activist group, attended numerous community gatherings and even addressed district leaders at a public meeting. But his passion for Carroll High School was no match for the district's dire financial... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:27:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1941768-philly-coming-to-grips-with-mass-school-closings.html 2013-03-08T23:27:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1782202-parents-hesitant-nra-armed-schools-proposal.html MIAMI (AP) — The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life. Their reactions ranged from supportive to disgusted. Already, there are an e... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1782202-parents-hesitant-nra-armed-schools-proposal.html 2012-12-22T02:44:00Z