Jul 17 5 things to know about Congress' rewrites of No Child Left Behind By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press WASHINGTON — No one thinks it'll be easy, but the House and Senate are embarking on negotiations to merge two differing education bills that would rewrite the nation's much-criticized No Child Left Behind education law. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch 5:59 Kindergarteners with good social skills turn into successful adults, study finds By PBS News Hour In a report released today, researchers found that kindergarteners’ social skills, like cooperation, listening to others and helping classmates, provided strong predictors of how those children would fare two decades later. Judy Woodruff speaks to Damon Jones of Pennsylvania State… Continue watching
Jul 16 Senate vote moves No Child Left Behind education law closer to overhaul By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senate passes overhaul of No Child Left Behind education law; compromise needed with House. Continue reading
Jul 12 Malala Yousafzai celebrates birthday opening school for Syrian refugees By Kenzi Abou-Sabe The school will serve around 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in the Bekaa Valley region along the Lebanese border. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch 7:48 What should replace No Child Left Behind? By PBS News Hour No Child Left Behind, an educational reform law with a controversial legacy, expired eight years ago and has yet to be replaced. This week, the Senate took up the first bipartisan effort to replace the law. Hari Sreenivasan talks to… Continue watching
Jul 09 Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting By Dr. Chad Williams Soon, other educators and I will begin to prepare our syllabi and lesson plans for the start of classes in the fall. How will we talk about the Charleston shooting and its aftermath?… Continue reading
Jul 08 Why the Education Dept. dismissed a discrimination complaint against Harvard By Molly Boigon, WGBH The Education Department has dismissed a claim that Harvard shows bias against Asian-American applicants, because a similar lawsuit has already been filed in federal court. Continue reading
Jul 03 How Obama reversed course on federal college ratings By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama dearly wanted to get the government in the business of rating colleges and universities based on value and affordability, promising a new system by 2015. Now that goal is shriveling under the weight of a… Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch 6:25 Teachers tap into brain science to boost learning By PBS News Hour Research on the brain and how we think and act is influencing the way some teachers teach. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters goes into a classroom where the instructor uses different methods to engage different parts of the… Continue watching
Jul 01 Why the government let many trade schools become diploma mills By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press WASHINGTON — How did trade schools go from being mom-and-pop shops that trained mechanics and hair stylists to making billions on Wall Street? And if the industry is as predatory as the Education Department and many lawmakers suggest, why didn't… Continue reading