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Edu News: New York State Schools Won’t Be Penalized for Opt Outs

Photo Credit: dcJohn by Grace Smith There will be no penalty for New York state school districts that had large numbers…

10 years ago

Chalkbeat Colorado: More kids to get free school breakfast under law, but some districts feel financial squeeze

Photo Credit: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture by Amy Schimke As the second phase of Colorado’s “Breakfast After the Bell” law…

10 years ago

Common Core Takes Spotlight for GOP Candidates at Education Summit

Photo credit: Woodleywonderworks by Hallie Jackson LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Forget emails and immigration: the topic du jour for half-a-dozen Republican…

11 years ago

From The New York Times: Poll Finds Most Back Healthy School Meals

Photo Credit: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture by Ron Nixon WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans support providing schoolchildren with healthy…

11 years ago

SunSentinel: Is Florida’s new test valid? Study due Sept. 1 should give answers

Photo credit: Timlewisnm by Leslie Postal The study to determine whether Florida’s new standardized test is a valid one is…

11 years ago

NPR: New Orleans Schools, 10 Years After Katrina: Beacon Or Warning?

by Anya Kamenetz On Sept. 15, 2005, two weeks after Katrina and the levee breaches, I drove with my parents…

11 years ago

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: School takeover plan foes see threat to local control of education

Photo credit: Woodleywonderworks by Ty Tagami The vote is more than a year away, but debate over Gov. Nathan Deal’s…

11 years ago

From ASCD: Ten Things Master Teachers Do

Photo credit: Mosborne01 by Annette Breaux Master teachers—those who have figured out how to get students to do and be…

11 years ago

From BBC: David Cameron sets out academy ‘vision’ for every school

Photo courtesy: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Every school in England should become an academy, PM David Cameron has…

11 years ago

ZDNet: News Corp.’s Amplify education experiment: What went wrong?

Photo Credit: Edgar Zuniga Jr. by Larry Dignan for Between the Lines News Corp. is putting its Amplify electronic learning…

11 years ago