Topic: Education Policy
Back to basics _ or cram school? To reverse sliding rank, Japan adds 1,200 pages to textbooksWhen Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South ...
Puerto Rican teachers start school year with one-day strike, stranding thousands of studentsTeachers walked off their jobs Thursday in a one-day strike over staff and funding levels in Puerto Rican schools, giving students an unplanned day off barely three weeks into the ...
Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls sickened by unknown gas, most discharged from hospitalDozens of students and teachers at a girls' school in Afghanistan's capital Kabul were sickened Wednesday by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms, education officials said. The incident was similar ...
An Australian teacher was reprimanded after giving students an assignment to plan an extremist attack designed to inflict maximum casualties, officials said Wednesday. The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School class in Western Australia were told to plot against "an unsuspecting Australian community", with ...
APNewsBreak: 9 states, DC named 'Race to the Top' winners to share $3 billion for schoolsThe U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 ...
New York confirmed as 'Race to the Top' winner in school reform grant competitionU.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says New York will win millions of dollars in federal education funding when "Race to the Top" program grants are announced Tuesday. The amount of ...
Education Dept. to name 'Race to the Top' winners; will share $3.4 billion to continue reformsThe U.S. Education Department is expected to name the winners of the second round of its $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" school reform grant competition. Eighteen ...
Lawmakers told fat has been cut and that Nebraska budget knife would hurt education programsNebraska lawmakers have been told that the fat has been cut and the next step is to trim and eliminate programs in the Department of Education to help ...
Nevada teachers union opposes online access to data on its membersImagine that before sending your child to school this year, you could go online and find out how well previous students of your child's new teacher have performed on standardized tests.For Los ...
A-level students will find out Thursday whether their grades have secured them a place at university, amid a mounting battle for places. While the pass rate is likely to rise again this summer, many students will find their grades are not good ...
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Education Policy in the Next Administration
When a new president takes office in January 2009, he ...2008-07-24 -
BNP + NF education policy
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John Edwards - Education Policy Questions
James Kvaal, Policy Director for John Edwards' presidential campaign, answers ...2007-10-09
