D.C. teachers' union ratifies new contract
Deal includes raises of 21.6 percent over five years and groundbreaking performance pay program.
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What Common Core State Standards are -- and aren't
So now we have a set of national standards for math and English language arts that all states can adopt to help making learning more uniform across the country. There’s no real arguing with the notion that a student in Florida should learn the same important concepts and skills as a kid in Alaska. But we should be clear about what the results of the Common Core State Standards Initiative actually are -- and what they aren’t.
Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 06/ 2/2010
How to help struggling schools in a budget crisis
When Dan Domenech left seven years later, many Excel schools had turned around, and he was a national figure, eventually becoming executive director of the American Association of School Administrators. Now his successor, School Superintendent Jack D. Dale, faces his own crisis: deep budget cuts that have ended the Excel program that made Domenech’s reputation.
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. 
