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The Education Department is reassuring the state of Massachusetts it does not agree with an internal watchdog who suggested the state was using economic stimulus money improperly.
Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported Thursday.
School districts and nonprofit partners can benefit from a $650 million competitive grant fund for school reforms pushed by President Barack Obama.
The Obama administration Wednesday defended an Education Department official over advice he gave a gay student about sex 21 years ago.
On the very first day of the school year, 12-year-old Mileena Rodriguez was reminded by President Barack Obama himself that hard work can take you places.Mileena listened to Obama's plea to study hard and stay in school Tuesday, watching along with several of her classmates at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School and students across the country. For all the hubbub among adults over the back-to-school speech, many youngsters took the president's message to heart.
A look at the achievement gap between black and white students on nationwide reading and math tests in 2007, according to a new Education Department report. Tests were graded on a 500-point scale.
Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.
First lady Michelle Obama has been honored at the Interior Department, and in turn she praised the agency's employees.
President-elect Barack Obama has not signaled what he will do to fix the country's failing schools, but his choice of education secretary will say a lot about the policies he may pursue.
The U.S. Education Department has broadened a review into whether Princeton University discriminates against applicants of Asian descent.
A popular teacher recruitment program failed to abide by federal accounting rules, making it difficult to determine if federal grants were properly spent, according to an investigation by the Education Department's inspector general.
The curriculum at a charter school catering to Muslims complies with federal and state law, the state Education Department said Monday but it directed other changes be made in religious areas.
The Education Department's inspector general says he will review whether federal money is inappropriately being spent on programs by a company founded by Neil Bush, the president's brother.
The government on Thursday proposed fines totaling $76,000 against two broadcast companies for failing to tell viewers that programs featuring columnist Armstrong Williams were sponsored by the Education Department.
Federal investigators raided three for-profit college campuses this week, carting away documents in a U.S. Education Department probe.
Ireland's youth are becoming increasingly poor spellers and writers, and their love of text messaging on cell phones is a major reason why, according to the government's Education Department.
Changing course, the Education Department will allow states to count teachers as highly qualified even under standards that may do little to ensure quality.
The Education Department has reviewed the student testing systems used by the states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to determine if they comply with the No Child Left Behind law. The grades given by the department for those testing plans:
Pressure-cooker Kindergarten Christine Gerzon is the epitome of a kindergarten teacher: warm and wise, quick to get down on her knees to wipe a tear or bandage a boo-boo. ... I teach because it's my calling," she says. "It's my life purpose."
In 1994, McCain proposed 'doing away' with Dept. of Education.ยปGreg Sargent notes that in a 1994 interview, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested that the U.S. should abolish the Department of Energy and the Department of Education:
Study: 'Reading First' Program Fails to Boost Reading SkillsChildren who participate in the $1-billion-a-year reading initiative at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law have not become better readers than their peers, according to a study released today by the Education Department's research arm
Confusion Cited In Overpayments To Student LendersEducation Secretary Margaret Spellings has acknowledged that the federal government "had some responsibility" for "confusion" over subsidy rules that helped student loan companies reap hundreds of millions of dollars in potentially excessive payments at taxpayer expense.
Most new teachers on short-term deals MORE than three-quarters of Victoria's first-year teachers are employed on short-term contracts, a state survey has revealed, with concern the trend is contributing to the profession's attrition rate. The 2007 Australian Education Union Beginning Teachers Survey, released today, …
Teachers in the front row when students square off THE short skinny kid had blood pouring from his face and teacher Claude Tomisich could see that worse was to come. The boy, a 14-year-old called Benny, was being bashed by a student almost twice his size.
Private schools to cut dropouts?A conservative think tank on Thursday renewed its call to send students to private schools using public money, releasing a study that claimed South Carolina could save billions by doing so.
Drain The SwampToday, federal civilian employees number nearly 2 million. Another 10 million or more are federal contractors or grant recipients. The yearly budget of this runaway train is soaring toward $3 trillion. The behemoth could use a multiple bureau-ectomy.
Education Dept. Criticized as Lax in Policing Loans - New York TimesThe report, by the Government Accountability Office and released by Congressional Democrats, found that the department had "no oversight tools" to see whether lenders were giving improper incentives to colleges to steer student borrowers their way, and, that since 1989, the d …
No skirting teacher dress code LOW-SLUNG trousers and high heels are a symptom of an increasingly casualised workforce in schools, according to the state's top parent group, which is calling for stricter dress standards to apply to teachers. Parents Victoria executive officer Gail McHardy told a State Governm …
Across U.S., a New Look at School Integration EffortsThe Supreme Court ruling striking down voluntary plans to integrate schools left hundreds of school districts struggling to assess whether they must change their policies.
Northern schools fail testTHE State Government is under pressure to overhaul underperforming schools in Melbourne's north as figures reveal about half the secondary schools in the region are in the bottom 20 per cent of the state when it comes to VCE achievement. Figures obtained by The Age also show alm …
Quality lacking in secondary schoolsTWO-THIRDS of Australian parents do not believe children are getting a quality secondary school education and most say students are graduating without adequate skills in literacy, numeracy, history and science. With education a key battleground at the federal election, a report …
Bullied boy receives record $1m payoutA RECORD $1 million payout for a victim of school bullying has been downplayed by the NSW Government, which denies it opens the floodgates for similar claims of negligence. Benjamin Cox, now 18, was awarded the money yesterday after successfully suing the state of NSW for neglig …
Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is Vindicated Another appalling story of waste that could have been stopped several years earlier. Bureaucracy: 1 Taxpayers: 0
Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is VindicatedThe whistle-blower's story opens a window, lawmakers say, onto how the Bush administration resisted calls to improve oversight of the student loan industry.
Yield Documents, Lawmaker Tells White HouseThe chairman of the House education committee asked the White House yesterday to turn over all its communications about the scandal-tarred student loan program and also Reading First, the administration's $1-billion-a-year reading initiative, which has been besieged by accusati …
U.S. Limits Access to Student Loan DatabaseOfficials were concerned that marketers were improperly obtaining private information on potential borrowers.
Federal Official in Student Loans Held Loan StockA senior official at the Education Department sold more than $100,000 in shares in a student loan company even as he was helping oversee lenders.
Censured PBS Bunny Returns, Briefly"Postcards From Buster," a children's public television show that was pilloried by conservatives, returns, belatedly but unbowed, for a second season.
S. Boston charter school faces closure over scores The Uphams Corner Charter School, a Boston school that aims to transform struggling students into classical scholars who study Latin as well as rhetoric, is facing closure next year largely because of low test scores.
Negotiations Are Signaled on Phone Ban in City SchoolsThe city is considering a plan to allow students to pay to check their cellphones at the schoolhouse door.
Teacher calls Muslim student 'terrorist'Since last year's Cronulla riots, the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination board has been inundated by calls from Muslim Australians.
Select schools benefit all state students One hundred years ago, Melbourne High School and MacRobertson Girls School were brought into being as the first state secondary schools in Victoria to embody the principle that "brains not wealth should be the passport to the higher realms of knowledge".
Schools may close as teachers stop to protest SCHOOLS could be closed on Thursday and classes disrupted as up to 20,000 teachers and support staff walk off the job. They will rally against the Federal Government's industrial relations changes,
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