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Online Universities: Government Cracks Down on For-Profit Schools (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 2, 2010 By

Starting next year, for-profit schools, including some of the nation’s biggest online colleges–like the University of Phoenix , Kaplan University , and Strayer University –will have to provide graduation rate and job placement figures to new students and applicants, the Department of Education has ordered. That’s a sample of more than a dozen reforms the government will impose on for-profit schools beginning July 1, 2011. Students will now be able to make more informed decisions, the Department says

Dept of Ed: Some bullying violates federal law (AP)

Published on October 26, 2010 By

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Education conference to focus on teacher contracts (AP)

Published on October 14, 2010 By

TAMPA, Fla. – Federal education officials are teaming up with teachers unions to hold a national conference on labor-management collaboration

Despite fiery rhetoric, largest teachers union spending big for Dems (The Upshot)

Published on October 6, 2010 By

Over the summer, the president of the nation’s largest teachers union told thousands of members that Obama’s education policies were “not the change I hoped for.” “Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced,” National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel said at group’s annual convention in New Orleans, according to the New York Times’ Sam Dillon .

Stop Trashing Teachers! (The Daily Beast)

Published on September 30, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Obama’s misguided policies and the overhyped doc Waiting For Superman have turned America against its teachers.

Fired, rehired teachers back at troubled RI school (AP)

Published on September 4, 2010 By rohit

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their Rhode Island classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance at their persistently troubled high school.

Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on August 31, 2010 By

Chicago and Boston – Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line – sometimes literally between life and death. At the South Side after-school center that his mom founded, he knew kids who’d made it all the way to fourth grade unable to read. And on the asphalt playgrounds of that rough area, he shot hoops with boys who later died in gang warfare.

Duncan: Schools should disclose more on teachers (AP)

Published on August 26, 2010 By

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged schools across the country on Wednesday to disclose more data on student achievement and teacher effectiveness, saying too much information that would help teachers and parents is being kept out of public view

School bullying summit’s big hope: an anti-bullying tipping point (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on August 12, 2010 By rohit

In the wake of several high-profile bullying incidents, the Department of Education is hosting the first federal school bullying summit Wednesday and Thursday. Suicides linked to bullying – including the January suicide of Phoebe Prince, which has resulted in nine felony charges against her Massachusetts classmates – have drawn particular attention to the issue, and several states are considering or enacting anti-bullying laws. “People are really feeling the heat now,†“This is the first time this kind of initiative has taken place, bringing together so many disparate elements, and there really is a hope that it will create a critical mass or tipping point ..

Government taps 19 states for education grant finals (Reuters)

Published on July 27, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Education has selected 19 states to vie for $3.4 billion in grants aimed at improving their schools, Secretary Arne Duncan said in a speech on Tuesday. He added that 10 to 15 of those states are expected to win money from the federal stimulus-funded program known as “Race to the Top.” The program is President Barack Obama’s pet project, offering federal grants to states for improving education and supporting semi-autonomous charter schools – in what Duncan called the “quiet revolution” in education. The money primarily covers adoption of standards and assessments, boosting of low-performing schools, creating teaching jobs and building better data systems.