4.8.10 – GreatSchools – How do they do it? The surprising secrets behind the best education towns in the nation.

elphia, PA — Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, will appear jointly to discuss how community schools are helping to create the conditions for effective teaching and learning.

Alexandria, Va. (March 24, 2010) – Today, the Center for Public Education (CPE) released a new report “Charter Schools: Finding Out the Facts” reviewing the fact and fiction behind charter schools.

WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 24 — Broad-based and bipartisan opposition is growing in the wake of President Obama’s proposal to eliminate high-quality after-school tutoring for more than 500,000 low-income families as part of his blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

3.17.10 – As Congress takes up President Obama’s proposals to update the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law, national education experts today offered recommendations to overhaul NCLB’s controversial testing and accountability provisions.

3.15.10 – Nearly one-third of students attending public high schools fail to graduate. While discouraging, this outcome is not inevitable. Research suggests that ninth grade is a
crucial year for determining whether students will complete high school

BOULDER, Colo. and TEMPE, Ariz. (March 8, 2010) — Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is announcing a new initiative to verify that school districts are providing students with equal access to college preparatory curricula, starting with compliance reviews in about 32 school districts across the U.S.

3.2.10 – Over the past 18 months educators have seen the national education reform agenda transformed. Novel ideas and unique strategies have been placed on the national docket for serious consideration. This transformation includes a focus on developing talent and managing human capital, a core emphasis of the education agenda of President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Endowment funds at the nation’s colleges and universities grew by an average of 6.2 percent a year in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1989, from just over $100 billion to more than $400 billion in 2008, according to a long-awaited Government Accountability Office study released today.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 24, 2010 — Students found 'responsible' for sexual assaults on campus often face little or no punishment from school judicial systems, while their victims’ lives are frequently turned upside down, according to a year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity

2.21.10 – THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE IS DEVASTATING FOR ANY CHILD, but for nine-year-old Pat Swanson the death of her beloved uncle triggered thoughts and behaviors that she had never before experienced.

BOULDER, Colo. and TEMPE, Ariz. (February 15, 2010) — State education agencies and local school districts are increasingly asked to make evidence-based decisions about school reform initiatives, often assuming that all evidentiary claims are the result of high-quality research.

2.15.10 Hayes Mizell – Many people think about professional development in excessively narrow terms. Educators view it as an episodic add-on to the school year. School systems treat it as a service peripheral to student achievement.

2.13.10 – David A. Stuit and Thomas M. Smith – This study examines how teacher turnover differs between charter and traditional public schools and seeks to identify factors that explain these differences. differences.

2,13,10 – In theoretical models of residential sorting, a household’s location decision is closely tied to its demand for consuming local public services.

2.13.10 – Gregory Elacqua – School choice advocates argue that the introduction of vouchers can make improved educational opportunity available to the most disadvantaged children.

BOULDER, Colo., and TEMPE, Ariz. (Feb. 9, 2010) — Today the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University released a study that examines

2.6.10 – The House Education and Labor Committee voted Thursday to pass the bill known as the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act by a vote of 34 to 10. Now, the measure must be considered by the full House and it must be taken up in the Senate before it can become law.

AUSTIN – Commissioner of Education Robert Scott announced today that the next generation of student tests will be called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR.

"When American voters say education is the second most important issue after homeland security, it’s not because they are looking for spending increases, but because they recognize U.S. education is failing to keep pace not only with our own expectations