by Natalie Escobar | Feb 17, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON–Preschool sandboxes have become battlegrounds for political debates about innovative education policies and how to pay for them. The Obama administration and individual states are busy devising strategies based on research, but experts caution...
by Alex Duner | Feb 16, 2016 | Education
Library of Congress receives huge donation from Afghanistan from Medill Washington on Vimeo. WASHINGTON — A man walking through a bombed Kabul bazaar. A crowd watching a game of buzkashi, a polo-like game using a headless goat instead of a ball. A group of...
by Natalie Escobar | Feb 10, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON– When the No Child Left Behind Act was rewritten by Congress last December and passed with bipartisan support, few politicians were sad to see the Bush administration education reform law go. However, House Democrats on the Education Committee’s K-12...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 8, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 8 — The U.S. Department of Education on Monday announced the creation of an enforcement unit to investigate the growing number of allegations of student aid fraud and deceptive recruitment tactics by colleges and universities, particularly...
by Nick Hagar | Feb 8, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — He’s starting out with six non-traditional “micro-schools,” but entrepreneur Max Ventilla wants to bring education up to date with personalized instruction and data-based performance analytics. Ventilla, founder of AltSchool, talked Monday about his...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 3, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON- A Democratic House leader knocked the idea that school choice programs benefit low-income students, calling them a false choice for families. “These programs are not serving the population that they were created to support,” said Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.,...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 2, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — Acting Education Secretary John King Jr. said the agency has addressed ehtical missteps by its top technology official, including the use of agency employees for personal work and failing to disclose outside income, while also working to correct...
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 27, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — Four rare children’s books were unveiled as digitized editions on a new storytelling app at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. Children from the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center experienced the tales for the first time on Cricket Media’s Story...
by Natalie Escobar | Jan 19, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — Heated opposition to Common Core standards has united some left and right-leaning groups but has not led to the creation of viable education policy alternatives, a New America report released on Tuesday says. As opponents have tied objections to the...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Jan 19, 2016 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday proposed a $2 billion a year expansion of federal Pell grants to pay for year-round student awards and bonuses for students staying on track to graduate on time. “We believe now that Pell grant has stabilized; these...
by Natalie Escobar, Sabrina Rodriguez and Tyler Kendall | Jan 11, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — Lawyers representing a group of California teachers argued before the Supreme Court Monday that forcing non-union members to pay “fair-share fees” infringes on First Amendment rights. The high court heard oral arguments for the case Friedrichs v....
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 11, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON- Demonstrators rallied outside the Supreme Court on Monday morning ahead of the hearing of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case challenges the requirement that teachers, including non-union members, are required to pay agency fees to...
