Arne Duncan Helps Students Put Best Foot Forward in School Walk
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, Washington Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee and Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez helped more than 100 students start the second day of school Tuesday -- with a walk. The two-block walk to Maury Elementary School in Washington promoted the Transportation Department's Safe Routes to School program, in which more than 6,000 schools participate nationwide. Officials encouraged walking and riding bikes to school with family and friends as a healthy, safe habit for kids. Click the video below to learn more. ...
English Majors as Math Teachers: In Some Schools, That's How It Has to Be
Last year, Cary Wright graduated with a bachelor's degree in English. This month, the Teach for America corps member starts his second year as a fifth-grade teacher. But Wright doesn't teach English; he teaches math. Founded in 1990, Teach for America selects, trains and places recent college graduates as teachers in low-income communities. In an education system struggling to keep pace, the non-profit strives to meet demand, placing its corps members where they're needed, when they're needed -- which means that an English major sometimes ends up teaching math. It's a program at the mercy ...
Arne Duncan: Bullying in Schools Is a 'Gateway to Hate'
The Department of Education hosted its first conference on bullying Wednesday, adding the issue to a steadily growing list of education priorities for the Obama administration. Speaking the day after President Obama approved billions of dollars to fund teachers in cash-strapped states, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said bullying is a school safety issue that must be resolved. "Bullying is doubly dangerous because it can have unintended consequences and be escalated to even more serious violence and abuse," he said. "Just as you have gateway drugs, bullying, I think, is a gateway to a ...
Eighteen States, D.C. are Finalists for Race to the Top Education Money
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia will vie for $3.4 billion as finalists in the second round of Race to the Top, the Obama administration's competitive program to encourage states to implement its education reform initiatives. Whittled down from 36 applications, the finalists in round two include all of the previous finalists minus Delaware and Tennessee, winners of the last round of grants. Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maryland, and New Jersey are newcomers to the finals in this round of Race to the Top. In a speech Tuesday at the National Press Club, Education Secretary Arne ...
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