by Emily Hoerner | Jul 15, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – Teachers’ union leaders in upstate New York say they hope the U.S. Senate’s No Child Left Behind reauthorization will send a message to the state legislature about measuring standardized testing. The Senate bill, renamed the Every Child Achieves Act,...
by Mallory Hughes | Jul 9, 2015 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — New legislation, endorsed by the White House, seeks to make two years of tuition “free for all first-time students” at community, technical and tribal colleges in an effort to create more accessible and affordable higher education. The America’s College...
by Emily Hoerner | Jul 6, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — When the time came for Frederick resident Anne Sechler to send her daughter off to kindergarten in the fall of 2013, she faced a difficult choice. “The neighborhood that we live in, though it’s a decent neighborhood, is districted for a school that...
by Mallory Hughes | Jul 2, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Almost 900,000 international students studied at American colleges during the last academic year – a record high and an 8 percent increase over the previous year. Now we want more. At the State Department’s Sixth Annual EducationUSA Forum, more than 575...
by Emily Hoerner & Jenny Leonard | Jun 30, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama said American women need to do more to help girls in African and Middle Eastern countries get an education. “We would never accept a life of dependence and abuse for our girls,” Obama said during her speech at a lunch...
by Megan K. Rauch | Jun 11, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — When Alejandra Ceja was growing up in Huntington Park, a Latino community in Los Angeles, she didn’t have exposure to the type of leader that she would one day become – a woman helping kids like her explore a world of possibilities. “I didn’t have...
