Texas Politician Aims To Reduce Testing, School Closure Personal For Obamas: Ed Tonight
School Closure Personal For The Obamas? The Chicago Sun-Times is out with a list of 193 schools that could potentially be closed under Chicago Public Schools' effort to save money by shuttering "underutilized buildings." Among them is Bouchet Academy -- and as Alexander Russo notes, that's the elementary school Michelle Obama attended. (It was called Bryn Mawr Elementary School when she studied there.)
Role Model Fail? Germany's education minister is under investigation for plagiarism, reports the Associated Press. "A committee of academics at Duesseldorf's Heinrich-Heine University voted Tuesday to begin the probe
Role Model Fail? Germany's education minister is under investigation for plagiarism, reports the Associated Press. "A committee of academics at Duesseldorf's Heinrich-Heine University voted Tuesday to begin the probe
Obama's Inaugural Education Mentions, Test Prep Bankruptcy: Ed Today
So There Was An Inauguration... As you might have heard, this weekend, President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term. And at the inauguration, he gave a speech. The Washington Post's Valerie Straussteased out O's references to education. (Hint: There weren't many. For the most part, Obama lumped in education with other domestic policy issues in need of reform). More here from Politics K-12.
Test Prep Fail? Much ink has been spilled about the dominance of testing -- specifically standardized testing -- in modern-day education policy, but the boom isn't big enough to continue greasing the entire test-prep industry, apparently. At least, not enough to make up for its legal costs? Education Holdings, the company formerly known as Princeton Review, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Bloomberg. "The U.S. Justice Department on Dec. 20 announced the settlement of a suit filed against the company in May in Manhattan federal court," Bloomberg writes. "The U.S. claimed that Princeton Review received tens of millions of dollars in federal funds for tutoring
Test Prep Fail? Much ink has been spilled about the dominance of testing -- specifically standardized testing -- in modern-day education policy, but the boom isn't big enough to continue greasing the entire test-prep industry, apparently. At least, not enough to make up for its legal costs? Education Holdings, the company formerly known as Princeton Review, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Bloomberg. "The U.S. Justice Department on Dec. 20 announced the settlement of a suit filed against the company in May in Manhattan federal court," Bloomberg writes. "The U.S. claimed that Princeton Review received tens of millions of dollars in federal funds for tutoring