by Danny Yadron | Jun 4, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – This was not a book list for the pre-teen literati. Experts in child and young adult literature griped after a group of state education officials released a reading list last week with their long-awaited national benchmarks for public schools, the Common...
by Danny Yadron | Jun 1, 2010 | Topics
Reaching out for a profile interview is not unlike vying for a first date. It takes persistence, spunk and just enough charm to convince someone that you’re a perfectly likeable yet harmless human being. It also requires a certain ability to know that sometimes, only...
by Danny Yadron | May 26, 2010 | Education
Never let it be said they didn’t take their time. Lawmakers ended three months of panels on Tuesday about how to rewrite No Child Left Behind, the current version of the U.S.’s main public school law. It marks the end of a wonk-filled process that has revealed very...
by Danny Yadron | May 20, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON — Teachers’ unions may have at long last found their congresswoman. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., called Thursday for lawmakers to ditch the Obama administration’s approach to fixing the country’s worst performing schools, a combination of...
by Danny Yadron | May 17, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON — Education reformers have made “career and college ready” the latest buzzwords in an overhaul of the U.S. education system. The only problem: They’ve yet to agree on exactly what the phrase means, a fact on display recently at a Senate...
