Education News

Teachers in Albany, New York, are rallying today against what the organizers call "the madness" of corporate-influenced school reform that is based on high-stakes standardized tests and that many say has demonized teachers. It is the latest in a series of rallies and protests of one kind or another in a growing backlash nationwide against education and student/educator evaluation based on on how well students do on standardized tests.

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The use of transfer rules to eliminate many of an athlete’s preferred options illustrates the big-business mind-set of college sports and the control that coaches have over players.    

Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien gave the ultimate pre-game pep talk to students graduating from Walt Whitman High School on Friday.

O’Brien, related to one of the graduates, was the keynote speaker at the ceremony held at DAR Constitution Hall in the District.

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Rio Grande Valley residents are awaiting a new university that will replace Brownsville and Pan American.    

Students taking Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests are likely to see lower scores than last year, thanks to the introduction of harder English and Science standards, state education officials reported Friday.

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A vice chairwoman of Howard University’s board of trustees recently told the board that the historically black school in Northwest Washington “is in genuine trouble” because of fiscal and management problems, according to a report published Friday.

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It’s official: Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Friday transmitted legislation to the D.C. Council that would give Chancellor Kaya Henderson the authority to approve new charter schools.

Gray (D) announced his intention to seek chartering authority for Henderson during his weekly radio address Sunday, and the bill has been under legal review since.

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A new proposal unveiled by the president on Thursday includes an ambitious overhaul of the federal E-rate program to ensure universal broadband access and updated technology in the nation's classrooms.

A contentious, year-long review of the Fairfax County school system’s discipline process came to an end Friday with board members voting to soften punishments for possessing marijuana and new policies regarding parental notification.

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A small but growing number of chronically ill students are attending school virtually with robots, which stream two-way video to connect them to the classroom.    

The Vermont town of Duxbury is celebrating its 250th birthday, and as part of the festivities, local students are getting int -More- 

Every year for the past dozen years, Clinton, N.Y., High School math teacher Nancy Zumpano has given each of her students $10 -More- 

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