by Lauren Drell | May 24, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. A computer class at Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. Lauren Drell/MNS WASHINGTON—Ask a teacher what should be changed about No Child Left Behind, and you might hear something like this: “Do you have...
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 Camille Doty | May 17, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. The female Huskies gave President Barack Obama his own honorary jersey during their second White House visit. (Camille M. Doty/MNS) WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama greeted the University of Connecticut women’s basketball...
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...
by Lahaina Mae Mondonedo | May 13, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Historic textiles are on display at the Textile Museum from May 15 to September 12. Lahaina Mondonedo/MNS WASHINGTON-The Textile Musuem in Northwest D.C. debuts a new exhibit Friday. “Art by the Yard: Women Design...
by Camille Doty | May 12, 2010 | Education
Family PhotoEmryse Geye shares a rare moment with her military father who is deployed Iraq. WASHINGTON – An 18-year old college freshman and daughter of a soldier in Iraq told the National Military Family Association at a summit Wednesday that civilians need to better...
