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L.A. Times: Laws on junk food in schools fail to help poor fight obesity, study says

by Eryn Brown and Teresa Watanabe Since state laws made it harder for California elementary school kids to get their…

11 years ago

Wired: Inside The School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education

by Issie Lapowski SO YOU’RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you…

11 years ago

PBS Newshour: The road to College Signing Day starts in Middle School

by Kyla Calvert Mason May 1 is decision time for graduating high school seniors. Today is the day that most…

11 years ago

THE Journal: Report: Majority of Teachers Purchase School Supplies for Students

by Leila Meyer This year 91 percent of teachers used some of their own money to pay for school supplies,…

11 years ago

WST: The Bad News (Poverty) and Good News (Education), Millennial Parents

by Josh Zumbrun Much has been written about millennials–the nickname for the generation of young people born in the 1980s and…

11 years ago

From BBC News: Global ‘100 year gap’ in education standards

When it comes to education the differences between the developed and developing worlds remain stark. There has been a convergence…

11 years ago

The Nation’s Report Card: New Results Show Eighth-Graders’ Knowledge of U.S. History, Geography, Civics

N ationally, eighth graders’ average scores on the NAEP U.S. history, geography, and civics assessments showed no significant change in…

11 years ago

KQED News: Does Common Core Ask Too Much of Kindergarten Readers?

by Katrina Schwartz S andwiched between preschool and first grade, kindergarteners often start school at very different stages of development…

11 years ago

nprEd: Uncomfortable Conversations: Talking About Race In The Classroom

by Elissa Nadworny O pen up the newspaper or turn on the news these days, and you’ll find plenty of…

11 years ago

Corinthian Colleges Shuts Down, Ending Classes for 16,000 Overnight

by M. Alex Johnson I n what’s believed to be the biggest shutdown in the history of higher education in…

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