Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
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 ...
New Lincoln math pages suggest more education
Two math-notebook pages recently authenticated as belonging to Abraham Lincoln suggest the 16th president, who was known to downplay his formal ...
Senate introduces No Child Left Behind successor
The one-sized-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under legislation ...
Higher ed systems in 10 states turn to Coursera
The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses," which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly ...
Greece uses emergency power on striking teachers
The Greek government said Monday it will use emergency powers to prevent protesting teachers from disrupting university entrance exams this month.
Mississippi prepares new push on education
It's early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson's class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering ...
Computer glitches derail school tests in 4 states
School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers' pay because of ...
Teachers head: Don't link tests to evaluations yet
The head of the country's second-largest teachers union said Tuesday governments should hold off on linking standardized test results with evaluations ...
30 years later, nation remains at educational risk
U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools ...
Mexican president faces teachers' revolt
Easter vacation was over, but there wasn't a teacher in sight at the boarding school for indigenous children on the edge of this sunbaked southern ...
Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens
Serving a frugal lunch in their kitchen not much bigger than a bathroom, Pedro and Elena Baptista spoon stewed chicken feet onto their boiled potatoes ...
Mayor: Chicago school closings tough but necessary
Mayor Rahm Emanuel responded Saturday to widespread criticism of his plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools, saying he wasn't interested in doing ...
Parents, union to fight Chicago school closings
Chicago Public Schools officials ended months of speculation when they released the list of 54 schools the city plans to close, but the pushback ...
Pentagon to furlough teachers, cut commissary time
The Pentagon will furlough about 15,000 military school teachers and staff around the world because of the automatic budget cuts that took effect last ...
Port city's strikes inspire Egypt's opposition
For nearly two weeks, protesters and strikers have shut down much of Egypt's Mediterranean city of Port Said, filling up the streets with one angry ...
Mexico plays hardball in jailing of union boss
The arrest of Mexico's most powerful union leader echoes the hardball tactics of Mexico's once-imperial presidency while pushing forward an education ...
Head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union arrested
The head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union was arrested at an airport near Mexico City Tuesday for alleged embezzlement, with federal officials ...
Emory president's essay draws criticisms
In recent years, Emory University made a point to acknowledge how the school was once led by slave owners, but an essay by the school president has ...
School choice goes Hollywood to reach Main Street
The movie "Won't Back Down" starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis was a box-office dud, barely earning $5 million and disappearing from theaters ...
Educator pleads guilty in teacher testing fraud
A longtime Memphis educator accused of leading a 15-year scheme to help teachers cheat on qualification exams changed his plea to guilty on Friday, ...
Unions suffer sharp decline in membership
Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had ...
Federal appeals court upholds Wis. union limits
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective ...
NYC, union trade harsh words over plan impasse
The city and its teachers' union can't agree on how to evaluate the educators, an impasse that has put the nation's largest school district at risk ...
NYC, union miss deadline for teacher eval plan
New York City and a union representing the city's 75,000 teachers missed a deadline Thursday for a teacher evaluation plan, putting the city at risk ...
NY's Cuomo sets sights high on gun control
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiery State of the State speech pushed the state onto the national stage over gun control and other progressive issues ...
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