Afternoon announcements: Obama will pay for pre-k plan through increased...
Protestors outside the Department of Education, dubbed, “Occupy DOE,” resorted to inflammatory and even racist insults against high-stakes testing. Politics K-12 Ohio State University students might...
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Elementary school children in Richmond, Virginia will be incentivized to read, as part of a program to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade. The...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Obama requests $300 million for high school...
The Next Generation Science Standards were publicly released on Tuesday and will help shape science education around the nation. The next step for states will be deciding whether to adopt them....
View ArticleEveryone's Getting Straight A's: OECD Test Compares Individual Schools to...
We're back at you with another issue of Straight A's, the Alliance for Excellent Education's bi-weekly newsletter! As always, you can read the entire articles online, or you can sign up to receive...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Kentucky Districts to Receive $10,000 for Raising...
Kentucky education commissioner Terry Holliday is incentivizing districts to raise their high school dropout age from 16 to 18 by promising the first 57 that do a $10,000 state grant. Holliday’s...
View ArticleEveryone's Getting Straight A's: Obama's Budget Proposal
The Alliance's newsletter, Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress, is available online. You can read excerpts from the newest volume below, and you can read the full articles here. If you...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: STEM Education Could Get $100 in Additional Funds
Ninety-two percent of elementary, middle, and high school students surveyed in a recent study believe that digital technology is the direction education is moving and believe increased access to it...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: State Education Spending Per-Pupil Lowest in Three...
When Arne Duncan testified this week before the House Education and the Workforce Committee on the President’s 2014 fiscal year budget, he received numerous questions on student loan interest rates...
View ArticleEveryone's Getting Straight A's: House Spending Plan Would Cut Education
It's time for another edition of Straight A's, the Alliance for Excellent Education's bi-weekly e-newsletter. You can read the entire issue online, pick from the article snippets below, or receive...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Delaware Commits $5 Million to Education Technology
The House of Representatives approved a Republican proposal to keep student loan interest rates from doubling in July of this year. It would align student interest rates from year to year with the...
View ArticleSenate HELP Committee Passes Bill that Would Improve the Nation’s High Schools
On June 11th and 12th, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a markup on a bill known as the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013 (SASA). Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Congress Allows Student Loan Interest Rates to Double
"The ConnectED initiative and the expansion and modernization of the e-Rate program will help transform the technological infrastructure in the nation's classrooms and libraries, allowing schools and...
View ArticleEveryone's Getting Straight A's: Senate Committee Boosts Funding for Early...
We're back with another edition of Straight A's, the Alliance's bi-weekly education newsletter! We round up reports, hearings, and the biggest news in educaton in each issue and bring it straight to...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Obama Pushes Education Agenda in Speech on US Economy
Several states are reconsidering adopting the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers’ (PARCC) Common Core State Standards aligned assessments due to the cost. This helpful...
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