From Education Newsfeed: Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond Simon today in South Carolina praised the state for setting some of the highest standards in the nation when compared to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or the Nation's Report...
From Economic Policy Institute: On one shore are voters increasingly anxious about globalization and its effect on their jobs and communities. On the other are economists, policy makers, and pundits who maintain that trade is good for the economy, that...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: When students have the opportunity to participate in "Socratic seminars" on a regular basis, a different classroom culture evolves. This is shown in a new dissertation in Pedagogy by Ann S Pihlgren at the Stockholm...
From Ascribe Newsfeed: The National Student Clearinghouse, the nation's trusted source for degree and enrollment information, announced today that the number of colleges using its Student Self-Service web site has surpassed 500, providing access to the site to nearly five...
From Ascribe Newsfeed: The History Project at UC Davis and the Solano County Office of Education have received $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to improve history instruction in Solano County public schools, where only one in three...
From Ascribe Newsfeed: John Jay College of Criminal Justice's MPA Program was again ranked in the top 20 percent of the nation's MPA Programs by US News & World Report in its 2008 "Best Graduate Schools" survey. Only three public...
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