by Danny Yadron | May 12, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Arne Duncan helped third-graders build battery-powered cars Wednesday, part of the latest push to help American pupils play catch-up with their Asian and European counterparts in the hard sciences. The effort, a MacArthur Foundation...
by Danny Yadron | May 4, 2010 | Education
Preschool’s latest recession victims. WASHINGTON – The recession quieted years of progress in America’s preschools, a problem only likely to worsen as states come to terms with gutted tax rolls, according to a study released this week. Although most states still...
by Danny Yadron | Apr 26, 2010 | Education
If Barack Obama was your high school graduation speaker, would you have been a better student? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears to hope the answer is “yes” with his department’s new Race to the Top Commencement Challenge – a nationwide sweepstakes to hear...
by Danny Yadron | Apr 22, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House subcommittee in charge of rewriting No Child Left Behind – the current version of the country’s main education law – said this week that lawmakers would be hard pressed to pass a bill this year, despite assurances from other top...
by Danny Yadron | Apr 19, 2010 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday he wants to use his department’s funding war chest to cut drop-out rates and boost college enrollment for Hispanic Americans – a noble approach, educators said, but one that needs policy muscle if it hopes to...
