by Dan Waldman | Oct 19, 2016 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — The key to ending police brutality and quell racial tensions in the country is through civic education, Secretary of Education John King said Wednesday. Speaking at the National Press Club, King said promoting “democracy was one of the...
by Jason Mast | Oct 17, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Education Department announced Monday that the high school graduation rate reached an all-time high in 2015, crediting President Barack Obama’s $4 billion Race to the Top school reform program and nearly $6 billion pre-school initiative. But...
by Anna Waters | Oct 4, 2016 | Education, Featured
FARMVILLE, Va. – During Tuesday vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, many Longwood University students were hoping to hear detailed plans to deal with mounting college debt. They were disappointed—the issue came up only...
by Jason Mast | Sep 21, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — House Republicans accused the Obama administration of attempting to subvert the law and also congressional authority Wednesday during a hearing on a new law that replaced No Child Left Behind. Democrats charged that Republicans were trying to...
by Natalie Escobar | Mar 20, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON— A half-century after passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act and in the wake of federal reforms in public education, test scores for black and white students’ scores do not look much different than those in the 1960s. In 1966, a government-commissioned...
by Natalie Escobar and Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 14, 2016 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON– Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is officially dropping the “acting” from his job title. King was confirmed as Education Secretary Monday night in a 49-40 Senate vote, following months of stark criticism by lawmakers of President...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 8, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday the U.S. has made progress in improving education for girls in other developing countries, but call on private industry as well as the government to do more. At an International Women’s Day event at Union...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 26, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON – When Tony DelaRosa went to study abroad in Japan in 2010, he planned to improve his Japanese speaking skills. But he didn’t plan on finding a new career path while teaching English at a Japanese orphanage. When he graduated from college two years later,...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON–Acting Education Secretary John King stopped by Capitol Hill on Wednesday to make a case for more money for a slew of new education initiatives, but House Republicans said that the department’s proposals will only drain existing cash-strapped...
by Natalie Escobar | Feb 23, 2016 | Education
Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., greets witnesses before hearing begins. WASHINGTON–Although Congress overturned the No Child Left Behind Act’s unpopular standardized tests, education leaders warned senators Tuesday that the new law will flop unless states are...
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...
