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September 26, 2011
Obama Presses Education Plan Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2011 President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address on Saturday said a strong education system is key to the nation’s economic future and touted his efforts to let schools replace key planks of the No Child Left Behind education law. Obama Turns Some Powers of […]
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September 23, 2011
Obama Rewrites ‘No Child’ Law Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2011 President Barack Obama is set to replace key planks of former President George W. Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind education law, allowing many schools to escape looming punishment if their states adopt a new set of standards. U.S. May Spare Schools From Harsh […]
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September 21, 2011
Growing participation in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program is being accompanied by modest academic improvement...
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September 20, 2011
New Jersey has a dismal record when it comes to getting extra education money from Washington. Most people remember the state's lost bid...
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September 20, 2011
State needs to boost number of authorizers or lose out on more federal money.
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September 14, 2011
More bad news on the national education front: The College Board announced Wednesday that the mean SAT reading score for the high school class of 2011 fell 3 points from 2010′s mean — to 497, making it the lowest reading score since 1972.
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September 14, 2011
I have often said — normally out of frustration — that someday I am going to start a new national advocacy effort to get parents to talk to their children. The idea first occurred to me on a Washington, DC metro ride. I sat across from a parent with her little boy, who was no […]
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