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Gordon Brown to lecture at Harvard (AFP)

Published on September 14, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK (AFP) – Britain’s ex-prime minister Gordon Brown will give a lecture at Harvard next week, the Ivy League US university said Tuesday. Brown, who lost his job earlier this year after leading the Labour Party to its first general election defeat in more than a decade, will also serve as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics this fall.

Obama to defend education policies to critics (AP)

Published on July 29, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is defending his administration’s education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students.

Obama to defend education plan (Politico)

Published on July 28, 2010 By

President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education. Speaking at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Duncan is expected to name a list of state finalists for the controversial grant program’s second round of funding and to explain why Race to the Top — the crown jewel of the administration’s education agenda — must continue.?And on Thursday, Obama will talk about education at the annual gathering of the National Urban League, one of seven civil rights organizations that blasted Race to the Top in a report made public Monday. The highly competitive initiatives “distribute resources by competition in the midst of a severe recession,” effectively reducing standard, formula-based federal education funding, according to the report.

DREAM Act receives renewed interest in immigration debate (McClatchy Newspapers)

Published on July 9, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON — A pared-down immigration bill that would give as many as 2.1 million undocumented immigrants under 35 a shot at higher education and legal status is receiving renewed interest because of the short time frame before the November midterm elections. The DREAM Act — or Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors legislation — would give undocumented young people the chance to earn permanent residency and eventually citizenship if they graduate from U.S. high schools, have been in the country at least five years continuously and meet educational or military service stipulations.

High court turns down No Child Left Behind case (AP)

Published on June 7, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge by school districts and teacher unions to the federal No Child Left Behind law. The court said without comment Monday that it will not step into a lawsuit that questioned whether public schools have to comply with requirements of the law if the federal government doesn’t pay for them.

Obamas attend end-of-school events for daughters (AP)

Published on June 4, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON – The end of the school year is the same for the Obamas as other families: lots of school events.

Geithner offers China vow of greater fiscal discipline (Reuters)

Published on May 25, 2010 By rohit

BEIJING (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told future Chinese leaders that the Obama Administration will cut its budget deficit once it is sure the economy is safely growing. In a speech to about 30 middle-aged cadres at the Central Party School , Geithner said Washington is aiming to steadily lower its deficit as a percentage of national output. “The basic strategy is to make sure that our economy is growing, then institute long-term reforms, and restore the basic discipline to the budget process that we abandoned in the previous decade,” Geithner said