by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 19, 2015 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Martin O’Malley wouldn’t bite. “Frankly, I’m a little sick of the email drama,” the potential 2016 presidential candidate said in response to a question about Hillary Clinton’s latest controversy in early March. The “drama,” the former Maryland...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 18, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – The Education Department has a math problem. Experts from Republican and Democratic administrations agreed Wednesday with a report detailing policies to more effectively distribute federal education funding through stronger use of statistics. All that’s...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 17, 2015 | Education
“Welcome to the pride of the city, Peoria High School,” the answering machine message in Principal Brett Elliott’s office says. It’s not only a play on the school’s nickname, the Lions, but a constant reminder to Elliott of where the school has been, where it is now...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 4, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan defended the administration’s plan to expand the reach of public education to community colleges as he presented the White House’s 2016 budget proposals to lawmakers on Wednesday. “I think the world has changed,” Duncan...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 3, 2015 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON — Advocates for reforming school discipline policies said on Tuesday that recent findings indicating a racial disparity in punishments highlight a need for change. “We need a paradigm shift to move from a punitive, sanction-based system… to a restorative,...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Mar 2, 2015 | Topics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case questioning whether the statements made by a 3-1/2-year-old boy to his preschool teachers about suspected child abuse qualified as “testimonial hearsay.” In March 2010, teachers at...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 25, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — When it comes to higher education, the system that oversees it is a tangled, bureaucratic mess, according to a new report released Tuesday. “America’s 6,000 colleges and universities live in a jungle of red tape that is expensive and confusing and...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 20, 2015 | Topics
WASHINGTON – Ellington Turner and his mother, Marlece, began to cry. The seventh-grader had just gotten word that his school, MacFarland Middle School in Washington, D.C.’s fast-gentrifying Petworth neighborhood, would be closed following the 2012-2013 school year....
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 18, 2015 | Education
By Josh Rosenblat WASHINGTON — Progressive education and civil rights leaders reaffirmed their opposition to recent GOP-sponsored bills to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind act, citing educational equality as the most important aspect of any new law. In a...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 10, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s proposed college rating system would set access, cost and results as key metrics, a top Education Department official said Tuesday, drawing immediate criticism from community college leaders. Department of Education Under...
by Joshua Rosenblat | Feb 4, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges reviewed Wednesday ways to improve that sector of higher education, even while facing falling enrollment numbers. Over the past ten years, state laws and universities raised entrance...
