Obama travels to visit daughter Sasha's school AP: President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are attending an event at the private school that 8-year-old daughter Sasha attends in suburban Maryland....
States begin setting uniform standards of student progress AP: By third grade, students should know how to write a complex sentence and add fractions, no matter whether they live in Georgia or California...
Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/education/03standards.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">National Academic Standards Are Released NYT: The nation’s governors and state school chiefs released final recommendations for what students should master in English and math...
In Teacher Layoffs, Seniority Rules. But Should It? NPR: Like many districts nationwide, Cleveland schools CEO Eugene Sanders is facing a monster spending gap and may have to cut more than 500 teachers. But he's bound by a law to cut the last hired first. While the Cleveland Teachers Union supports this rule, Sanders and others find it frustrating -- and say it makes the process more painful...
D.C. teachers' union ratifies contract, basing pay on results, not seniority Washington Post: District teachers ratified a new contract Wednesday that dramatically expands Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's ability to remove poor educators and places Washington on a growing list of cities and states that have established classroom results, not seniority, as the standard by which teachers are p...
Students' Virtual U.S. Tour Snowballs to Connect Classes Nationwide EdWeek: A Web-based project using Google Chat and Skype has sparked a new educational trend that has spread like cyberwildfire.
