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 Lahaina Mae Mondonedo | Apr 22, 2010 | Education, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Former U.S. Air Force Airman, Lisa White teaches third grade math at Lamont Elementary School in New Carrollton, Maryland. (Lahaina Mondonedo/MNS)...
by Camille Doty | Apr 21, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Students who benefit from after school services participated in the rally to fight against proposed funding cuts. (Camille M. Doty/MNS) WASHINGTON – The National Afterschool Association and the Afterschool Alliance...
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...
by Danny Yadron | Apr 15, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – The nation’s geographers say it’s time to return their science – typically associated with maps and state capitals – to its rightful place in American classrooms. It could be the secret, some say, to a new economy or even an end to international conflict....
