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By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDuring a speech Monday at a Virginia school, President Obama outlined his plan to reboot George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" education law, saying he wants to overhaul in place before the start of the next school year. The president's appearance at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington was the latest stop in a campaign to give more education-reform power to state and local governments and improve student performance, The Hill reported Monday. Obama told students that the U.S. economy depends on young people getting an education that leads to a competitive career. "Over the next 10 years, ...
Obama, Jeb Bush to Join in Education Reform Event at Florida School
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThey aren't exactly school chums, but President Obama and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush plan to share a stage and also their goals for education reform Friday at an event in Miami. The White House said the president will talk about "how winning the future in education will require investments that promote shared responsibility among everyone involved; reform at the state and local levels and focus on achieving results." Bush, who served two terms as Florida's governor, would probably be a rival to the president next year were it not for the plummeting popularity of his brother George W. Bush ...
Mastery Charter 'Restarts' Philadelphia's Struggling Smedley Public School
By Benjamin Herold - Politics DailyOn the first day of school last fall at Smedley Elementary in Philadelphia, Principal Brian McLaughlin assembled students in the sweltering cafeteria and pointed to a picture of a giant eraser projected onto a screen. "I want you to think of all the things from last year that you may not have liked," McLaughlin said. "We're going to erase those right now." At a school as troubled as Smedley, erasing the past isn't easy. Last year, more kids got suspended -- one in five -- than scored proficient on the state reading exam. An independent review found instruction sorely lacking. But this year, ...
The True State of the Union: Unsettled, and in Need of Tough Love
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresidents often use a single word to describe the state of our union, and whatever the circumstances, they usually default to "strong." That is always true in a fundamental sense, given our size, our ideals, our resilience and our incomparable military. But it's never complete. This year, if he were honest, President Obama might describe the state of the union as unsettled. The traumatic Tucson massacre has raised painful questions about how we as a nation regulate guns, handle mental illness and conduct our civic conversation. We continue to endure historically high unemployment and ...
State of the Union: Obama Faces New Challenges in Reforming Education
By Julie Moos - Politics DailyWhen President Obama enters the House chamber to deliver his third State of the Union address Jan. 25, he will bring with him a track record of at least limited success in reforming education, a topic he's expected to feature in his remarks. Obama has fulfilled or made progress on most of his campaign promises to improve the nation's schools, based on tracking done by PolitiFact.com, which monitors and fact checks political claims. According to PolitiFact's numbers, Obama has kept 11 of his 48 education promises, compromised on four of them, and has made progress on another 24. He has broken ...
Opinion: The Missing Link in Education Reform
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- No longer can we "wait for Superman" to fix America's education system. As politicians, researchers, educators and even filmmakers continue to debate why the United States has dropped to number 25 in educational achievement in the world, the role of high-quality early childhood education in closing America's achievement gap needs to be a bigger part of the reform conversation. While the Obama administration's Race to the Top program and the creation of common core state standards for K-12 in English/language arts and mathematics are rightfully lauded as major victories, these ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
National Education Technology Plan: Advancing Learning in Classrooms
By Maud Blose - Politics DailyThe National Education Technology Plan aims to introduce more technology to the entire education system "to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement," Education Secretary Arne Duncan told Congress this month. The Education Department hopes to increase the number of college graduates in the United States, making the country more competitive with other developed nations. Click play below to watch a video report on the plan: ...
For-Profit Colleges Getting New Oversight from U.S. Education Agency
By Julia Edwards - Politics DailyThe U.S. Department of Education met a Nov. 1 deadline for unveiling regulations to police for-profit colleges, after making extensive revisions in the package due to public push-back. The set of rules, scheduled to go into effect next July, include a requirement that for-profits, receiving federal aid, get approval from the U.S. government in some cases before offering new courses in the future. The regulations include most of the changes Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's wants to bring "program integrity" to the industry. The department reports that students at for-profit schools use 26 ...
For-Profit Colleges Brace for Drop in Enrollment
By Julia Edwards - Politics DailyAmericans who had their sights set on attending colleges with online classes, flexible hours and the promise of a job after graduation may be changing their plans come 2011. The nation's largest for-profit college, University of Phoenix, announced recently that it is expecting a possible 40 percent drop in enrollment in November. The decrease in demand has been triggered by increased competition, as well as the likelihood that the Department of Education will implement new regulations in January that could change school recruiting practices and reduce the availability of Pell Grants to ...
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