Author: Matthew Lynch
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Education Department Unveils College Ratings Framework
The Obama administration has unveiled the long-awaited first draft of its plan to rate the country’s colleges and universities. Beginning next year, the nation’s 6,000-plus colleges ... -
New York City Teachers Score Well Under New System
Under the new evaluation system that is being hailed as a better way of assessing teacher performance, nine out of ten New York City teachers received ... -
Maryland Teacher Complaints May Lead to Test Suspension
The Maryland State Education Association wants the Common Core aligned Kindergarten Readiness Assessment test suspended, arguing that teachers lose too much instructional time administering the computer based ... -
Mississippi Education Money Down by $1.5 B
Durant Public School teachers in Mississippi spend their evenings on the Internet, browsing for math and other problems to give their students because the school doesn’t ... -
In Ohio, public schools outperform charters
A recently released study from Stanford University finds that schools of choice in the state of Ohio rank below district, traditional public schools when it comes ... -
Vermont Receives $7.3 M for Early Childhood Education
Vermont has been awarded $7.3 million in what is anticipated to be a $33.4 million grant for pre-K programs at public schools and Head Start agencies ... -
Common Core PARCC To Go Live in Six States
Around 5 million students in six states will take the new standardized Common Core test known as PARCC for the first time during the 2014-2015 school ... -
NFL rolls out domestic violence awareness campaign for high schoolers
The National Football League has kicked off an outreach program about domestic violence awareness directed at high school students. The first major event surrounding the program ... -
Should Ethnic Studies be a High School Requirement?
This fall, the Los Angeles Unified School District voted on measures to make it mandatory for high school students to take an Ethnic Studies course before ... -
Native American Education in State of Emergency
The White House released a report last week outlining the current state of education for Native students, declaring that they face educational, socioeconomic, and health barriers ...
