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American Student Performance Slips Again; China Is Number One
American students now rank average or below average when compared to kids in other countries—14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in math.
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Why Twitter Is a Teacher's Best Tool
The social media platform makes it easy to get instant ideas, links, and resources from a global community of educators.
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New Report Puts the Black Male Achievement Crisis in the Spotlight
The latest study on urban black male academic achievement is out, and the data is pretty grim.
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Spike Lee Wants More Black Male Teachers
Forget business, law, and medicine. With black men making up only 1.7 percent of American school teachers, they need to head to the classroom.
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Are Teachers Overpaid? One Educator Says Yes
What $1,800-per-month paychecks? D.C. teacher Michael Bromley says his peers should stop complaining because they're actually making too much money.
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Results at Arne Duncan's First Chicago Turnaround School Raise Efficacy and Legal Questions
Arne Duncan believes in "turnaround" schools, but are they effective, and are they legal?
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Are "Teacherpreneurs" the Future of Education?
A new book, "Teaching 2030," believes educators need to become entrepreneurially minded leaders.
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Reading Scores Rising, Along With Achievement Gap
White and Asian students make minimal improvement, while minority students aren't improving.
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Arne Duncan Wants More Black Teachers
The latest crusade by the outspoken and very busy Education Secretary Arne Duncan is getting more African-American teachers into the classroom....
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Extra Credit: Can Someone Bring Chile's Star Wars School to the States?
Welcome to the first-ever edition of Extra Credit, a daily roundup of noteworthy education stories.
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Is the Obama Administration Pushing Teaching to the Test?
The U.S. Department of Education today announced yet another competition-based federal funding program today. This time, it's looking to...
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Are Students Pre-segregated Before High School?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is wrapping up a tour of state school systems around the country. A blog post on the Atlanta Journal...
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Obama's Education Budget Is on the Right Track. Too Bad Congress Won't Approve It
Obama's new budget proposes spending where it matters most: PELL grants, teacher training, and science and math education. If only it could pass.
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Your Favorite Public Education Reformer Probably Went to Private School
Many of today's prominent education reformers attended private school. Their policies for public schools are a far cry from that experience.
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Education Reformers Make the Grade in TIME's Annual List of Influential People
Michelle Rhee and Geoffrey Canada make this year's list of movers and shakers.
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The Pygmalion Effect: Does Calling It a "Failing School" Make It One?
There's been an incredible spike in the prevalence of the term “failing school”—and that label itself could be hurting our education system.
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Thomas Jefferson Sneaks Back into Texas Textbooks
No surprise here: The Texas State Board of Education voted to approve changes to the state's social studies curriculum by a margin of 9 to 5 down...
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Why Don't We Value Teachers?
A new piece by Arne Duncan, the United States Education Secretary, starts out fairly predictably: He praises the fine, difficult work teachers do,...
