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...
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...
