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Charleston's latest effort to break the cycle of poverty and improve education would target the areas surrounding four high-poverty elementary schools downtown and in North Charleston.
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A Washington research group is raising questions about the wisdom of the U.S. Department of Education’s favored strategies for turning around the lowest-performing schools with stimulus funding, saying ...
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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee on Dec. 8 in Washington, D.C.Andrew Councill for Education Week
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High absence rates among students with disabilities in Chicago's public high schools are the largest factor explaining the difference in their academic performance when compared with non-disabled peers, according to a new research report.
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Gov. Haley Barbour faces stiff resistance from legislators and others to his proposed strategy for closing the state's budget deficit. His plans include cutting the school funding, consolidating local ...
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Fourth and 8th graders in the country’s large cities have made progress in math over the past two years as measured by a national test, but the performance in several urban areas was stagnant—and in some cases, lagged behind that of other districts by vast margins.
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Undocumented immigrants—and some legal immigrants as well—who are detained are often transferred to remote immigration jails in Texas or Louisiana, far from lawyers or evidence that might help them to be freed, says a report by Human Rights Watch covered by the New York Times last week.
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Guess what? Kids will eat less junk food if schools take it out of their vending machines. That's what a group of Yale University researchers found in a two-year study involving six Connecticut middle schools.
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Some legislators are asking where the money will come from for a Hispanic Education Act proposed by Gov. Bill Richardson this week and why the measure is even necessary.
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Preschoolers at Glenn School in Nashville, Tenn., practice reading. They take part in Early Reading First, a federal program to prepare children for academic success. Few evaluations of it exist, but the crux of the program is likely to continue.—Josh Anderson for Education Week
Education Week Live blogging today from the National Staff Development Council
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Live From NSDC, St. Louis--I just caught a small part of a session on Response to Intervention given by a pair of educators with the Excelsior Springs (Mo.) school district. Here's something I never realized ...
Education Week What do you think about the media's coverage of education? Too much, too little, just right?
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Billions in federal economic-stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.
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Jazwaur Webster, 6, dozes off while waiting to see the principal at the end of the day at Jacob Hiatt Magnet School in Worcester, Mass. The school has been participating in the state’s expanded-learning-time initiative since 2006.—Erik Jacobs for Education Week
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The U.S. Department of Education put out the final version of the regulations on the School Improvement Grants. And even though there were 180 comments filed on the draft regulations, not much has changed, or at least not substantially.
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The B.C. government is promoting a record high school completion rate of 49 percent for aboriginal students in the Class of 2009, but a First Nations group says that's nothing to be proud of.
