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Huge Minority Gaps in Higher Ed 17 Jun 2013 | 05:30 pm
The Lumina Foundation produced a report last week detailing disturbing gaps in college degree attainment rates by race. Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics are lagging woefully behind whites and A...
Matt Williams responded to Huge Minority Gaps in Higher Ed on June 21, 2013 10:32 AM 17 Jun 2013 | 12:41 pm
Position minorities for college success I’m about to begin by stating the obvious: In order to fix the college attainment gap that disproportionately affects minorities in the United States, we must p...
It's Baaaack 11 Jun 2013 | 02:10 am
No Child Left Behind is back, but who knows how long the effort to reauthorize the long overdue legislation will last. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is voting on a bill t...
Kevin Welner responded to It's Baaaack on June 12, 2013 11:55 PM 10 Jun 2013 | 03:38 pm
Why are senators not listening? Perhaps our senators haven’t yet noticed, but their constituents don’t much care for No Child Left Behind. Perhaps they haven’t noticed all the protests against excessi...
Kerri L. Briggs responded to It's Baaaack on June 11, 2013 10:38 PM 10 Jun 2013 | 03:38 pm
Reauthorize and focus No Child Left Behind changed and improved the education landscape. Because of this law, · every school is held accountable for results; · every child gets an opp...
Kris Perry responded to It's Baaaack on June 11, 2013 11:03 AM 10 Jun 2013 | 03:38 pm
A launch pad for early learning Senator Harken’s proposed ESEA Authorization (No Child Left Behind) is a big step in the right direction for creating better education outcomes for children and our nat...
Monty Neill responded to It's Baaaack on June 10, 2013 12:49 PM 10 Jun 2013 | 03:38 pm
Congress: End Test-and-Punish Policies The Democratic bill released by Senator Tom Harkin, the Legislation from Rep. John Kline, and that from Sen. Lamar Alexander, are different enough that chances...
Nina Rees responded to It's Baaaack on June 10, 2013 12:08 PM 10 Jun 2013 | 03:38 pm
ESEA Reauthorization or Ground Hog Day! This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will mark up legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ...
Whence the Apprenticeship 28 May 2013 | 05:30 pm
"Business speaks one language and education speaks another language. We have to have translators," said Jane Oates, the outgoing Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training at the Department of La...
Bob Schaffer responded to Whence the Apprenticeship on June 4, 2013 02:39 PM 24 May 2013 | 07:30 pm
No Substitute For Knowledge The central question of today's question is, "What is reasonable to expect from schools in terms of making their students employable?" It's always important to remember ...
