Six percent of D.C. public school employees get separation notes

2011-07-15T15:30:48Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The District of Columbia Public Schools has notified 413 employees of their separation as the result of IMPACT evaluations, the DCPS said on Friday.

IMPACT evaluates teacher performance based on student achievement, instructional expertise, collaboration, and professionalism. Other employees are assessed bas...

US capital city a 'pawn' in federal budget battle: mayor

2011-04-12T11:30:32Z

One day after his arrest at a protest near the steps of the US Congress, Washington DC mayor Vincent Gray on Tuesday decried the capital city's role as a "political pawn" in recent federal budget negotiations.

"We think we were a bargaining chip in this political game played around the budget," Gray told

SUN reader sounds off On "To diversify, Nevada must better educate, community leaders conclude" from lvfacts101: "Throwing money at the public school system is merely throwing good money after bad. If money were the answer, the Washington, D.C., public sch

2010-12-15T02:32:50Z

On "To diversify, Nevada must better educate, community leaders conclude" from lvfacts101:

"Throwing money at the public school system is merely throwing good money after bad. If money were the answer, the Washington, D.C., public school system would be putting out Rhodes scholars instead of being one of the worst in the nation even though it spends more per pupil than any ot...

Historical Restaurants in DC

2010-11-29T14:38:20Z

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Space Professional Certification

2010-11-29T14:37:09Z

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Administration and society

2010-11-29T14:58:43Z

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Juashaunna Kelly

2010-11-30T13:34:07Z

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Tips for moving to Washington, DC

2010-11-29T15:29:56Z

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Six Flags Homeschool Day

2010-11-30T12:57:53Z

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Fall Fringe Festival

2010-11-29T14:28:59Z

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A look at Bill & Melinda Gates Scholarships

2010-11-04T15:32:47Z

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Best state colleges and universities in Washington

2010-11-04T15:31:52Z

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Best community colleges in Washington

2010-11-04T15:31:53Z

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Reflections: Combining parenting & work

2010-11-04T14:01:01Z

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Comprehending the charter school movement in America

2010-11-04T14:07:05Z

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Learning technologies in adult education

2010-11-04T14:06:20Z

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An overview of the top undergraduate business schools in Washington

2010-11-04T13:44:39Z

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Misdirected Society

2010-11-03T00:12:21Z

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The Eduction System of the United States and its Maladies

2010-11-03T00:12:07Z

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The Benefits of Student Government

2010-11-02T18:31:41Z

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Poland Offers Wonderful Opportunity for Law Students

2010-11-02T18:45:54Z

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Davis Guggenheim's Waiting For Superman -- Documentary Film Review

2010-10-10T19:14:12Z

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In Celebration of Childhood Literacy: Read.Connect.Grow

2010-10-09T08:55:16Z

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Social-emotional Development in Early Childhood

2010-11-02T13:57:12Z

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Obama: DC public schools are 'struggling'

2010-09-27T05:45:15Z

Obama: Daughters couldn't get private school-quality education at DC public schools

President Barack Obama says his daughters couldn't get the same quality education at a Washington, D.C. public school that they currently get at their private school.

Obama says the schools in the District of Columbia are "struggling,...

Waiting for "Superman"

2010-09-21T23:23:41Z

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Top 10 Catholic Colleges

2010-09-17T08:24:30Z

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(9/2010) RTI: Reading Is The Missing Link

2010-09-13T11:12:46Z

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K12 Inc: Technology-Based Education Company With Potential Investment Lessons

2010-09-13T10:15:15Z

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(9/2010) RTI: Reading Is The Missing Link

2010-09-12T00:00:55Z

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Sex Education

2010-11-02T16:04:27Z

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Home Schooling

2010-11-02T16:04:46Z

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Md. police seek gunman, interstate ramps closed

2010-09-12T01:24:57Z

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Maryland school locked down after shots fired

2010-09-12T01:24:43Z

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High School Summer Photography Programs

2010-09-11T21:16:57Z

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List of Black Greek Sororities

2010-09-11T21:10:45Z

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A Key Topic Resource List

2010-09-11T13:02:55Z

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APNewsBreak: 10 named school grant winners

2010-08-24T09:00:13Z

APNewsBreak: 9 states, DC named 'Race to the Top' winners to share $3 billion for schools

The 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 billion "Ra...

Project Management Colleges

2010-11-02T14:34:34Z

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Colleges in the Washington, DC Area

2010-09-11T10:33:46Z

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Teen Survey Finds Gangs, Drugs Common in U.S. Schools

2010-09-10T20:17:59Z

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Teen Survey Finds Gangs, Drugs Common in U.S. Schools

2010-09-10T13:49:52Z

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Early Intervention Speech & Language Grants for Public Schools

2010-11-02T14:27:22Z

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DC Public School Teachers ... this could be big

2010-09-11T00:05:06Z

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Calendar of Events

2010-11-02T15:41:41Z

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APNewsBreak: 19 states named finalists for grants

2010-07-27T09:30:44Z

APNewsBreak: 19 states named finalists for 'Race to the Top' education grants

Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have been named finalists in the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" school reform grant competition, giving them a chance to win a share of $3 billion.

The states are: Study: 'Common Core' academic standards clearer, more rigorous than those in most states

The common academic standards many states will adopt this fall are clearer and more rigorous than those currently used by three-quarters of all states, according to an analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

The Washington, D.C.-based think tank ...

News briefs

2010-11-02T15:34:48Z

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Beleaguered D.C. Schools Now Shining Model for West Virginia

2010-10-27T08:04:45Z

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35 states, D.C. apply for Race to the Top round 2

2010-06-01T15:45:09Z

35 states, D.C. take second shot at Race to the Top; $3.4 billion left for education reform

Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia have submitted applications for round two of the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top competition to boost student achievement and school reform.

The states filed...

Some states walk away from 'Race to Top' millions

2010-05-31T12:00:21Z

Walking away from millions: 9 states pass on 'Race to the Top' education grant program

About two dozen states are going back to Washington for another shot at billions in education grants under the "Race to the Top" program, but at least nine others with more than 7 million children are opting out of trying a second time.

For them, a chance at hundreds of millions of dollars wasn't enough to overcome the opposition of teachers unions, the wariness of state l...

Several states stay off charter-school bandwagon

2010-06-26T03:53:23Z

Feds' $4.35 billion carrot not enough for some states to allow, expand charter schools

In her small timber town in northern Idaho, Christina Williams enrolled her son in the closest public school because she had few other choices near her home.

But as she watched him struggle for years — many mornings prying him out of bed and forcing him t...

E. coli-contaminated lettuce recalled

2010-10-27T07:52:03Z

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The Best Schools For Your Housing Buck

2010-10-25T12:55:30Z

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State Homeschool Guidelines

2010-10-27T07:36:22Z

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How to Become a Military Engineer

2010-10-25T12:42:21Z

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Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants

2010-03-29T16:15:13Z

Education Department: Delaware, Tenn. get $600M in 1st round of 'Race to the Top' grants

Federal officials on Monday awarded Tennessee and Delaware $600 million in grants to improve failing schools, sending a message to other states hoping to win money: revamp your education laws and get your districts and teachers to sign off.

They are the first two states to w...

Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test

2010-08-25T13:29:15Z

Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test; report offers snapshot of changing US classroom

Reading scores for fourth and eighth grade students held mostly steady last year, continuing a stubborn trend of minimal improvement across most racial, economic and geographic groups.

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of federally funded achievement tests, rose in two states and the North Dakota State University's president resigns amid controversies, says 'It just isn't fun'

North Dakota State University President Joseph Chapman, stung by criticism of the ballooning cost of his new home and a $22,000 trip to President Barack Obama's inaugu...

In Defense Of Public Schools

2010-10-22T07:46:20Z

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10 Things

2010-10-24T09:31:53Z

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In Their Words: College Students' Financial Concerns

2010-10-22T07:44:35Z

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Analyzing The Numbers

2010-10-22T11:14:22Z

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Duke Ellington School of the Arts

2010-10-22T11:03:17Z

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Seeing the Future through New Eyes

2010-10-22T10:38:07Z

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JUST THE FACTS

2010-04-16T10:55:40Z

$7,993

Average spent per pupil in public schools in Nevada during the 2006-07 school year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau

$9,666

National average during the same period

NevadaÕs rank in per-pupil expenditures, out of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

42.5%

Share of ...

Charlotte E Ray

2010-10-22T09:51:34Z

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Here's the Deal: How to Save on School Supplies

2010-10-26T20:18:19Z

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Solving the Daycare Dilemma

2010-10-26T20:35:31Z

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Simmering change for schools

2010-04-16T11:57:33Z

Scholars working on plan to ensure that proficient learning is more consistent

A common lament of first-year college students is that they are starting out, academically, way behind many of their classmates.

That is because curriculum and testing in K-12 school districts vary widely from state to state and even within states. Despite the emphasis placed on national standardized tests, states are still largely setting their own elementary and secondary educa...

Detroit tries to turnaround failing school system

2010-04-16T12:11:25Z

Troubleshooter takes drastic measures to try to pull Detroit schools from failure, bankruptcy

Just like the auto companies that fuel this city, struggling Detroit schools are undergoing a painful restructuring to avoid complete failure and bankruptcy.

Next fall, 29 public schools will close, another 40 will be restructured, 900 teachers and staff will be pink-slipped and 33 principals fired. A former 24 elementary students, 6 adults from Md. injured when buses crash in Washington, D.C.

Two dozen students are injured after two buses taking children on a school trip crashed in Washington, D.C.

None of the children's injuries were serious. D.C. fire department spokesman Ken Crosswhite said the accident at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday involved two m...

Do You Like Your Roommate? Let's Share Good and Bad Stories!

2010-10-23T22:17:00Z

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Educational patchwork

2010-08-25T13:29:03Z

States should cooperate on ending the glaring inconsistencies among academic standards

A new study has confirmed what many critics of the No Child Left Behind federal education law have said all along, that many school districts judged as failures would be judged as successes if only they were located in a different state.

This is because the Bush administration did not want to broach t...

The World's Most Expensive Colleges

2010-10-21T09:50:31Z

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Will The Recession Kill School Reform?

2010-10-21T09:50:08Z

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Send Your Children to D.C. Public Schools, President-Elect Obama

2010-04-16T13:54:44Z

Barack and Michelle Obama appeared poised last week to commit a classic act of limousine-liberal hypocrisy- in this case, turning their backs on tens of thousands of inner-city kids in Washington, D. C.

Public schools, it seems, are good enough for poor and middle-class families, but not for rich families l...

Predictors of Parent Involvement in Preschool

2010-04-16T14:58:41Z

Books and Papers

FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Research Into Practice. Jennifer Prior &amp; Maureen R. Gerard. 2007. 316 pp. (Available from: Delmar Thomson Publishing, Clifton Park, NY.) The authors emphasize the differences among American families today and suggest taking into consideration these differences when planning a family invo...

Some Images of Magnificence

2010-04-16T14:58:42Z

I am delighted to have the opportunity to share with you a baker's dozen of good memories from my time as Editor of Childhood Education and Director of Publications for the Association for Childhood Education International. They're a valuable part of my heritage - of your heritage.

In 1969, when I was in Balt...

Sanofi-Aventis suspends Acomplia sales in Europe

2010-10-21T09:43:20Z

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Pesticides, fertilizers trigger alarm at Gallaudet

2010-04-16T13:22:48Z

Police say materials that triggered alarm at Gallaudet University were pesticides, fertilizers

Authorities say suspicious materials that triggered a partial evacuation at Gallaudet (gal-uh-DET') University were just ordinary pesticides and fertilizers.

District of Columbia fire department spokesman Sweden bucks its welfarist impulse and lets school choice take root

Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students?

It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has survived the critics and 16 years later is spreading and attractin...

Parent Sees 'Devastation' if Congress Kills DC School Choice

2010-10-23T19:06:50Z

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Changing School Talent Management Practices to Improve Student Achievement

2010-11-03T08:19:43Z

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Consolidating care

2010-11-02T12:41:56Z

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Take the Hard Line

2010-10-26T12:32:18Z

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Vicki Murray

2010-10-19T10:04:42Z

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Central Pork

2010-10-26T13:28:43Z

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Math scores up for 4th and 8th graders

2010-09-09T23:30:35Z

National Education Assessment Shows Math Scores Up and Reading Gains in Fourth Grade

Elementary and middle schoolers posted solid gains in math and more modest improvements in reading in national test results released Tuesday.

The test scores landed in the midst of a raging debate in Congress over renewal of President Bush's signature Loretta Pride, right, smiles after receiving help from Ivey Coples with selecting numbers for her three Mega Millions lottery tickets at the The All In One Shop on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in Greensboro, N.C. Thousands of people lined up in 41 states and in Washington, D.C., ahead of the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday in hopes...

NEW YEAR

2010-12-31T20:31:34Z

Oyuna Orosoo, from Washington, D.C., foreground left, is checked with a metal detector by NYPD police officer Toro, right, as she arrives for the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square Friday Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Tina Fin...

Deaths YE

2010-12-21T12:01:44Z

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2005 picture, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C. Stevens was killed Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at 86 in a plane crash in a remote part of Alaska while on his way to a fishing trip. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Tax Cuts

2010-12-16T20:31:50Z

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., , talks to reporters about the status of the tax legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Indian Money

2010-12-05T14:31:26Z

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, Elouise Cobell, right, looks on as Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes testifies during a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Native Americ...

News on Washington, Dc

Six percent of D.C. public school employees get separation notes

US capital city a 'pawn' in federal budget battle: mayor

SUN reader sounds off On "To diversify, Nevada must better educate, community leaders conclude" from lvfacts101: "Throwing money at the public school system is merely throwing good money after bad. If money were the answer, the Washington, D.C., public sch

Historical Restaurants in DC

Space Professional Certification

Administration and society

Juashaunna Kelly

Tips for moving to Washington, DC

Six Flags Homeschool Day

Fall Fringe Festival

A look at Bill & Melinda Gates Scholarships

Best state colleges and universities in Washington

Best community colleges in Washington

Reflections: Combining parenting & work

Comprehending the charter school movement in America

Learning technologies in adult education

An overview of the top undergraduate business schools in Washington

Misdirected Society

The Eduction System of the United States and its Maladies

The Benefits of Student Government

Poland Offers Wonderful Opportunity for Law Students

Davis Guggenheim's Waiting For Superman -- Documentary Film Review

In Celebration of Childhood Literacy: Read.Connect.Grow

Social-emotional Development in Early Childhood

Obama: DC public schools are 'struggling'

Waiting for "Superman"

Top 10 Catholic Colleges

(9/2010) RTI: Reading Is The Missing Link

K12 Inc: Technology-Based Education Company With Potential Investment Lessons

(9/2010) RTI: Reading Is The Missing Link

Sex Education

Home Schooling

Md. police seek gunman, interstate ramps closed

Maryland school locked down after shots fired

High School Summer Photography Programs

List of Black Greek Sororities

A Key Topic Resource List

APNewsBreak: 10 named school grant winners

Project Management Colleges

Colleges in the Washington, DC Area

Teen Survey Finds Gangs, Drugs Common in U.S. Schools

Teen Survey Finds Gangs, Drugs Common in U.S. Schools

Early Intervention Speech & Language Grants for Public Schools

DC Public School Teachers ... this could be big

Calendar of Events

APNewsBreak: 19 states named finalists for grants

News briefs

Beleaguered D.C. Schools Now Shining Model for West Virginia

35 states, D.C. apply for Race to the Top round 2

Some states walk away from 'Race to Top' millions

Several states stay off charter-school bandwagon

E. coli-contaminated lettuce recalled

The Best Schools For Your Housing Buck

State Homeschool Guidelines

How to Become a Military Engineer

Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants

Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test

In Defense Of Public Schools

10 Things

In Their Words: College Students' Financial Concerns

Analyzing The Numbers

Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Seeing the Future through New Eyes

JUST THE FACTS

Charlotte E Ray

Here's the Deal: How to Save on School Supplies

Solving the Daycare Dilemma

Simmering change for schools

Detroit tries to turnaround failing school system

Do You Like Your Roommate? Let's Share Good and Bad Stories!

Educational patchwork

The World's Most Expensive Colleges

Will The Recession Kill School Reform?

Send Your Children to D.C. Public Schools, President-Elect Obama

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Some Images of Magnificence

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Pesticides, fertilizers trigger alarm at Gallaudet

Parent Sees 'Devastation' if Congress Kills DC School Choice