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Sweet Briar College, an all-girls school in Virginia, recently announced its closure, sparking debates about single-sex education.

From The Hechinger Report
Why Americans should not be coming up with their own solutions to teacher training issues
A look at British Columbia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore
by MARC TUCKER
Professional development of American teachers costs up to $18 billion a year with at least half of that spent on workshops for teachers. But no matter how much we spend, it doesn’t seem to result in much improvement in student achievement.
Several other countries are doing a better job than the U.S.

From POLITICO
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered a sweeping school choice-centric education plan Monday with proposals that would allow parents to spend government dollars on the pre-K program of their choice and give college students a $50,000 line of credit to pay tuition.
Bush unveiled his plan on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as he fights to stay relevant in a GOP race dominated by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, invoking education as a civil rights issue.