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EducationNews Today Kaplan University: Blood Bank for the Washington Post 7.28.10 - How the Washington Post is surviving can be found in the fact that the company and thus the paper does not receive the majority of its revenue from either classified advertising or even advertising itself. The real story, that the Washington Post will not publish, is that the paper receives the majority of its revenue stream, its life blood, so to speak, from Kaplan University, a for-profit predatory institution that poses as higher education. As Race to the Top competition intensifies, so do education reforms 7.28.10 - Amanda Paulson - In announcing the Race to the Top finalists Tuesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan called the program part of 'a quiet revolution' under way in education reform. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia are finalists in the second round of Race to the Top, the influential and controversial competition for federal money to help states overhaul their education systems. ... Employment School 7.28.10 - RiShawn Biddle - Or call them permanent unemployment schools -- because those who attend won't ever acquire the skills work in a modern economy requires. If you want to know one reason why the nation's unemployment rate remains stubbornly high -- and why President Barack Obama is tackling the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers on reforming public schools... The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers 7.28.10 - A new study found students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten - and earned more as young adults. ... Commentaries Where Have All the Caring Parents Gone? 7.28.10 - Donna Garner - I feel so sorry for the following 18 states and Washington, D. C. that have sold their souls to the federal government for a few pieces of silver. High School Education: Multiple Pathways and Student Choice 7.28.10 - A two-tiered caste system of college-bound and work-bound education is hardwired in our collective societal consciousness to funnel youth into pathways based on disabilities, race, and class. Invisible Ink in Teacher Contracts 7.28.10 - State policy trumps collective bargaining. When the Cleveland, Ohio, school board had to make radical cuts in its budget last spring, it was forced to

EdNews Reports Steve Peha Offers An Alternate History on the Reading Crisis As the founder of Teaching That Makes Sense, Steve Peha has spent much of the past 15 years working on developing professional development regimens that help teachers improve their own academic instruction. But the former tech manager - who once scored the theme for the 3.1 version of Microsoft's Windows operating system National Education Standards: Still Not a Conservative Idea Lindsey Burke - "The Common Core Curriculum: National Education Standards Even Conservatives Can Love." This is what Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli of the Fordham Institute write about the Obama Administration's push to implement national standards in classrooms across the nation.