Great Public Schools Now Looks to Transform Los Angeles Schools
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Great Public Schools Now, an organization devoted to increasing access to quality education for all children in the greater Los Angeles area, has released a report titled “High-Quality Public Schools for Los Angeles Students.” The report acknowledges that successful schools do not follow one model. Each successful More...
Rare Calculus Classes Raise Questions on Advanced Study
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) According to the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, fewer than half of all high schools in the United States offer calculus courses, and only 63% of them offer More...
GradNation Report Analyzes Growing Problem of Student Homelessness
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) The website GradNation.org, an online destination for users to learn more about higher education with the goal of increasing graduation rates, has released a report titled “Hidden More...
Complaints Allege NYC Schools Fail on Sexual Assault Cases
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) New York City’s Department of Education has been accused of failing when it comes to sexual violence and harassment prevention within the public school system. Attorney More...
Department of Education: Chronic Absenteeism Spreading
(Photo: Flick, Creative Commons) According to new data from the US Department of Education, chronic absenteeism is affecting students in all parts of the country, including students of all races and ethnicities More...
Vilsack, King Kick Off Summer Meals Program in Virginia
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, along with Education Secretary John B. King, Jr. joined with students and friends of Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Petersburg, More...
US Dept of Ed Civil Rights Survey Shows Opportunity Gaps Remain
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has released new data from the 2013-14 school year showing that increasingly large gaps still exist in a number More...
From San Francisco to Chicago, Urban Farming Schools Appear
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A school in San Francisco is about to become the first urban farming public education setting in the country as students at the Golden Bridges School learn about the role More...
Indiana’s Pence Reverses Course on Federal Preschool Money
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Two years ago, Indiana Governor Mike Pence turned down millions of dollars of federal grant money for preschool funding, but now the governor has sent a letter to US Health and More...
Chicago CEO Claypool: Schools Won’t Open Without Funding
(Photo: ABC) Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has said that CPS will not be able to open in the fall if state lawmakers cannot approve an education budget: “Chicago schools would not open, and More...
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