Student Debt in America NYT: How a teacher ended up $410,000 in debt reveals the deep contradictions in the federal government’s approach to student loans. To build a better teacher, Harvard launches program aimed at...
Read MoreThings have begun to look pretty bad for the multistate assessment known as PARCC in Massachusetts, according to a November 21 New York Times story: State education chief Mitch Chester was “walking away” from the Common...
Read MoreThere’s lots of attention lately on immigrant education, which is a good and important thing for education reporters to be thinking about. The US school population has recently become majority-minority, including immigrant...
Read MoreUS falls behind other nations in the global knowledge economy, says 46-country report Hechinger Report: The United States continues to fall behind internationally in producing a college-educated workforce as other nations send...
Read MoreI was reminded last week that the Washington Post’s Emma Brown wrote a pretty amazing story about one district’s attempt to fire a veteran teacher (Violet Nichols, pictured above): Teacher tenure: a Fairfax schools...
Read MoreThe fight over K-12 education appears headed back to the states Washington Post: A new education law would shift fight over teacher evaluations, testing from federal government to 50 state capitals. Accountability and the ESEA...
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