Jul 07 Department of Education launches plan to attract good teachers to high-poverty schools By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press As part of the initiative, the Education Department said it will ask states to develop new, comprehensive educator equity plans. It is also investing $4.2 million to start a new technical assistance network to help states and districts create and… Continue reading
Jul 04 College presidents oppose unions for student athletes By Tom Raum, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Northwestern University on Thursday urged the National Labor Relations Board to overturn a regional ruling that would allow its scholarship football players to unionize, holding up the football program as exemplifying the university's integration of athletics and education. Continue reading
Jul 04 For-profit college to sell off 85 campuses By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The troubled for-profit education company Corinthian Colleges Inc. and the Education Department reached an agreement late Thursday that has 85 of the company's 100-plus campuses going up for sale, and 12 others closing. Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch Why more states are backing off Common Core By PBS News Hour A growing number of states are dropping the Common Core education standards. And several states committed to keeping the guidelines have postponed implementation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Carmel Martin of the Center… Continue watching
Jun 30 Interest rates on new student loans will increase Tuesday By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The change stems from a high-profile, bipartisan deal brokered last year by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama that ties the rates to the financial markets. Interest rates go from 3.86 to 4.66 percent on undergraduate Stafford loans. Graduate… Continue reading
Jun 27 When educational games work: Mission U.S. demonstrates best of video game learning By Elizabeth Jones How often do students get to time-travel back to 1770 Boston, talk to both patriots and loyalists, witness a brawl between local workers and British soldiers and then duck as troops open fire and the Boston Massacre sparks the American… Continue reading
Jun 26 Senators call for training, legislation to improve handling of campus sexual assault By Kyla Calvert Mason The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee spent Thursday morning in a hearing about how campuses handle reporting sexual crimes and how they can better be prevented from Department of Education officials, students and sexual violence prevention advocate. Continue reading
Jun 25 Twitter chat: How important is early childhood reading? By Nora Daly Reading aloud gives young children a head start. Experts weighed-in on how pediatricians, policy makers, and child advocates can help. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch I is for infant: Reading aloud to young children benefits brain development By PBS News Hour A new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that reading daily to young children, starting in infancy, can help with language acquisition and literacy skills. But, the report says, many children are missing out. Jeffrey Brown takes a… Continue watching
Jun 24 When it comes to reading to your child, new report says start early By Kyla Calvert Mason According to a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics published this week, pediatricians should tell parents of young children about the importance of reading to their child everyday, starting in infancy and continuing until the child is at… Continue reading