When a loud scream interrupted a cross country meet for a Minnesota high school, most of the runners didn’t stop to investigate, Yahoo Sports reported. But junior varsity runner Josh Ripley did. What he found was one of his opponents, Mark Paulauskas, writhing in pain on the ground. When a group of runners clumped together, one of [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says kids and the economy will benefit from the changes he’s making in education policy and his plan to spend billions to upgrade schools and keep teachers on the job. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to push his $447 billion jobs bill through the prism of [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Stay-at-home-mom Cindy DePace was just hitting 30 when she decided to return to the work force by going back to school and becoming a teacher. She loved working with kids, could be home in the summer with her own children and had always heard that someone with an education degree would never [...]
CLEVELAND — On a recent Wednesday afternoon in the auditorium of Eastern Technical High School, where 1,000 people had come to hear him speak, Arne Duncan was stumped. “What will the plan be in three years when the Race to the Top funding runs out?” Deontae Gresham, a high school senior, asked the usually well-prepared [...]
With President Barack Obama poised to announce alternatives to states’ compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act on Friday, the role of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be under scrutiny. In August, Duncan and the president announced they would waive components of NCLB — at least for states that agree to pursue reforms mandated by [...]
Some people will do anything for a good cause — even watch 100 hours of TV, straight. That’s the sacrifice that three stouthearted people in Los Angeles are making this weekend to help The San Gennaro Foundation, a nonprofit created by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that helps underpriviliged children in Los Angeles and promotes Italian [...]
She was the one that got away. Malcolm Brenner, 60, wrote ”Wet Goddess,” a new book about a man’s nine-month sexual relationship with a dolphin — an affair that bears “a striking degree of resemblance” to his own interspecies romance. The author claims he started his relationship with a dolphin named Dolly back in 1970, when he [...]
This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation’s The Learning Curve blog. Nínive Calegari, producer of documentary “American Teacher,” writes. The film opens in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles Sept. 30 and in San Francisco Oct. 7. After receiving my Master’s in Education and my teaching credentials, I taught in three different [...]
Aviation is responsible for an estimated 2 percent of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions. The industry’s rapid growth is doing nothing to decrease that figure, but airlines are nonetheless working to scale back their emissions. One tactic that’s been gaining traction: biofuels. In June, KLM announced that it would begin operating more than 200 flights using biofuel [...]
Standing among governors, teachers, superintendents and students in the White House’s East Room Friday morning, President Barack Obama asserted his administration’s reforms to the federal No Child Left Behind act would minimize the need for educators to “teach to the test.” “Is John Becker here?” Obama asked, referring to a fourth-grade charter-school teacher. “John teaches [...]
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