Topic: Education Policy
The Afghan government on Saturday denied making a deal with the Taliban agreeing a more conservative curriculum and more mullahs as teachers in return for an end to attacks on schools.Responding to a report released by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), the ...
Children as young as 10 could be taught about safe sex in South African schools as the country battles to contain pre-teen pregnancy and HIV infection, the department of health said on Monday.Health and education officials are scratching their heads over when ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many poor public schools do not pay teachers and educators as much as wealthier schools just a few miles away, according to a survey of 13,000 school districts the U.S. Department of Education released on Wednesday.The department found that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's budget cuts are taking a financial toll on poor schools that is more than three times the hit felt by the wealthiest districts, a non-profit education group said in report on Tuesday.The cuts are costing ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Budget cuts cost New York's poor schools $843 per pupil, over three times the $269 hit taken by the wealthiest districts, a report said on Tuesday, blasting the governor for the unequal results.Like many states, New York uses ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday announced steps to roll back key provisions of "No Child Left Behind," calling the decade-old U.S. education law admirable but flawed.The law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, was intended to hold ...
One of the biggest complaints Nevada educators have about the federal initiative to improve classroom education, No Child Left Behind, is that its higher and higher standards have left more and more schools falling behind, panting to catch up.On Monday, Nevada schools ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration will provide qualifying states waivers from No Child Left Behind after Congressional inaction on reforming the program, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Monday.President Barack Obama had called ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will provide qualifying states a waiver from No Child Left Behind after Congressional inaction on reforming the program, the Department of Education said on Monday.President Barack Obama had called for reform to the federal education law ...
Declining pay and autonomy in classroom drive frustration among stewards of Nevada childrenLife in the Walker family revolves around the Clark County School District.Between retired teachers Bill and Denise, and current teachers Geoff and Shelby, the Walkers have a combined experience of ...
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