Hundreds of thousands of teachers have lost their jobs in recent years. And as U.S. students go back to school amid a presidential campaign with clashing budget visions, President Barack Obama is sounding the alarm. Since since the end of the recession three years ago, 300,000 educators have lost their jobs — 7,000 in the last [...]
NEW YORK — Students took on more student-loan debt than they needed or could handle, during a borrowing boom from 2004 to 2008, largely due to relaxed borrowing standards set by private lenders, according to research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. Department of Education released Friday. The students who took out those [...]
WASHINGTON — A majority of states intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular requirements in the “No Child Left Behind” education law, the Education Department said Thursday. Obama said last month he was frustrated that Congress didn’t act to change the law that he has said [...]
LOS ANGELES — A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The district, the nation’s second-largest, agreed to remedy the disparities through a variety [...]
Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center. At times, the punishments are unrelated to student safety. While past research has suggested that zero-tolerance discipline that removes troublemakers can improve the learning environment for [...]
NEW YORK — Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second language, with a reading exercise. Classes began on Sept. 13, but because of the volume of students in her class, it was only Wednesday — three weeks later — [...]
In time for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s presentation of the Obama administration’s reforms to teacher preparation programs last week, a new report offers comprehensive recommendations for how to develop and maintain teacher evaluation and support systems. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ “Getting It Right” report, released Monday, notes that coming up with [...]
When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the Obama administration’s reforms to teacher training programs before the D.C.-based think tank Education Sector last Friday, he was joined by an unlikely partner: Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association. The National Education Association, the largest teacher’s union in the country, has warred with the [...]
The Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, engaged with the Latino community through a virtual town hall to kick off a week-long focus on Hispanic education as a part of the Obama Administration’s Hispanic Heritage Month. The town hall was moderated by Juan Sepulveda, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for [...]
NEW YORK — Hundreds of players in the education debate hunkered down in a tent staked over Rockefeller Center’s ice skating rink this week for NBC’s multi-million dollar, three-day panel fest “Education Nation.” This year marks the second iteration of Education Nation, which launched in 2010 on the heels of “Waiting for Superman,” a popular [...]
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