News- Computer Languages: Students Need to Speak Them
- Malloy kicks off hearing on his education plan
- GOP puts off 'Don't Say Gay' measure in House
- Committee cuts virtual schools from charter bill
- 'Parent Trigger' Campaign Divides Families at Calif. School
- More public schools dish up 3 meals a day
- Student journalists explore youth violence
- Vermont pushes to get more students to college
- Fed up with menu, students stage lunchroom boycott
- Financial Collapse Threatens Pennsylvania District
- LGBT Students Need Our Support
- Former KC sup rewrote contracts before departure
- Lawmakers: Consultants key to education funding
- Former K.C. Schools Chief Tried to Sweeten Top Administrators' Severance Pay
- Texas House committee evaluates charter schools
- Wash. Schools Chief: Use State Revenue for Education First
- Philadelphia Diocese Alters Plan for School Closures
- Ga. bill would tweak state laws on immigration
- STAAR won't impact students' grades this year
- Federal K-12 Footprint at Core of ESEA Hearing
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At California School, Parents Force an Overhaul
COMPTON, Calif.
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The Texas Tribune: Charter Schools and Public Ones Align in Valley
It was almost lunch time on the day before Thanksgiving break, but Gustavo Corrales, a math teacher, was not ready to let his students out the door at the San Juan campus of IDEA Public Schools , a network of charter schools in the Rio Grande Valley. Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization.
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News Corp., After Hiring Klein, Buys Technology Partner in a City Schools Project
Greg Gunn and Larry Berger met as Rhodes scholars at Oxford University and, after stints teaching computer skills and mathematics to children in Harlem and Stamford, Conn., they came upon an idea: create a business that would put technology in the hands of teachers and into classrooms. Enlarge This Image Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times Chancellor Joel I
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer?
Training Grounds for a Chancellor?
A COMMON complaint from teachers is that people believe they are experts in education just because they once went to school.
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City’s New Schools Chief Has Much in Common With Boss
Cathleen P. Black earned a reputation in publishing as a tough-minded chief executive who never left her employees guessing what she wanted. A student of management, she wrote a book about strategies for success in the corporate world.
Sports Briefing | College Basketball: N.C.A.A. to Study Summer Recruiting
Stay on top of all the news, on and off the court, on The Times's college sports blog. Go to The Quad Blog Men Schedule and Results A.P.
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City Reports Nearly Fivefold Increase in Students Repeating a Grade
The number of New York City elementary and middle school students who failed to move on to the next grade skyrocketed this school year, as weak students faced a higher bar on state tests and the broadening of the city’s tough promotion policy. Nearly five times as many students in the third through eighth grades are being required to repeat a grade this year compared with last year, the city announced on Thursday.
Cambridge Journal: With Summers, Harvard Lets Bygones Be Bygones
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — He will not be moving back to Elmwood, the yellow mansion where he lived as president of Harvard , but Lawrence H.
City Seeks Partner to Open Graduate School of Engineering