Six Education Stories To Watch in 2015
As the senior member of the NPR Ed team with 25 years on the education beat, here are the top stories that my expert sources and I believe will be ones to watch in 2015. For more predictions, check out...
View ArticleObama In Tennessee To Promote Free Community College
President Obama is in Tennessee previewing some of the big issues he'll talk about in his State of the Union address later this month. Friday, he'll speak in Knoxville, focusing on education and an...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Rethinks The Common Core
It's shaping up to be an interesting year for the Common Core, barely five years after 45 governors embraced it. A few states have already repealed the new math and reading standards. Others are...
View ArticleWhat To Expect From Obama Tonight On Education
On the education front, President Obama's State of the Union address is likely to focus on three big proposals:First, the president wants to talk about the idea he floated last week of making community...
View ArticleState Of The Union: A Quick Wrap On Education
Right off the bat, the president touted the fact that more kids are graduating from high school and college than ever before. "We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world," he...
View ArticlePregame Analysis: The Coming Federal Education Debate
The main federal education law may finally get its long-overdue makeover in Congress this year, and we're going to be hearing and reading a lot about it.Formally, it's the reauthorization of the...
View ArticleWhy Some Parents Are Sitting Kids Out Of Tests
Meet Jenni Hofschulte, the 35-year-old mom who's one of the parents leading the charge against testing in Milwaukee."I have two children in Milwaukee Public Schools," Hofschulte says over coffee at a...
View ArticleThe Opposite Of The Dean's List
No school wants to be on this list.It was just released by the Department of Education.
View ArticleA New Orleans High School Adapts To Unaccompanied Minors
For the past year now, many Americans have been hearing and reading about the 68,000 unaccompanied minors who have crossed illegally into the U.S. Nearly all of these minors come from El Salvador,...
View ArticleMexican-American Toddlers: Understanding The Achievement Gap
Mexican-American toddlers born in the U.S. do not develop nearly as fast as white toddlers when it comes to language and pre-literacy skills. That's the main finding of a new study by the Institute of...
View ArticleIn Texas, Questions About Prosecuting Truancy
As long as there have been schools and classes, there have been students who don't show up. And educators scratching their heads over what to do about it.In most states, missing a lot of school means a...
View ArticleWhat The Best College Teachers Do
Part of our ongoing series of conversations with thinkers and activists on education issuesIn a year in which we're exploring great teaching, it's a good time to talk with Ken Bain. He's a longtime...
View ArticleBiology Professor's Calling: Teach Deaf Students They Can Do Anything
To get a really good sense of why Caroline Solomon is a great teacher, you have to go into the field with her. On this particular morning, that means a boat on the Anacostia River.We're about 4 miles...
View ArticleA Vision For Teacher Training At MIT: West Point Meets Bell Labs
For decades, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, has tried to imagine a new kind of institution for training teachers. He envisions a combination West Point...
View ArticleTexas Turns Away From Prosecuting Truants
For two decades, Texas has treated truancy as a criminal offense. That means most cases were prosecuted in adult courts where children, along with their parents, faced jail and fines of up to $1,500...
View ArticleFrozen In Time, Remembering The Students Who Changed A Teacher's Life
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View ArticleHow Standardized Tests Are Scored (Hint: Humans Are Involved)
Standardized tests tied to the Common Core are under fire in lots of places for lots of reasons. But who makes them and how they're scored is a mystery.For a peek behind the curtain, I traveled to the...
View ArticleStop Picking On No Child Left Behind (Says One Of Its Parents)
It's official. More than 13 years after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law, it's now ... well, still law. But, as of Thursday, it is one big step closer to...
View ArticleIs This The Beginning Of The End For The SAT and ACT?
Many high schoolers hoping to attend George Washington University in Washington, D.C., one of the top private universities in the country, breathed a sigh of relief this week.GWU announced it will no...
View ArticleHigh Schoolers And Snooze Buttons: A Public Health Crisis?
"If a kid is in first period when they should still be asleep, how much are they really learning?"Anne Wheaton is an epidemiologist and the lead author of a new study published by the Centers for...
View ArticleStudy Tracks Vast Racial Gap In School Discipline In 13 Southern States
For years there has been mounting evidence that U.S. schools suspend and expel African-American students at higher rates than white students.
View ArticleBack To School? Back To The Piggy Bank
So if you add up all the college costs that students and parents probably didn't plan for — the stuff that isn't tuition and room and board — how big is that number? The National Retail Federation...
View Article10 Years In, Tulsa's Pre-K Investment Is Paying Off
Researchers have been tracking Jose Arriaga since he was 4 years old, waiting for the day he would start ninth grade. This fall, Jose is a freshman at Booker T. Washington High School, a selective...
View ArticleThe Online College That's Helping Undocumented Students
Federal law does not prohibit undocumented students from enrolling in college, but it does something nearly as effective, banning them from receiving government aid. In recent years, though, some...
View ArticleWith Campus Racism, How Can College Presidents Get It Right?
Tim Wolfe is not the first college administrator to come under fire for responding poorly to campus racism. And Wolfe, until this week the head of the University of Missouri System, isn't likely to be...
View ArticleGoodbye, No Child Left Behind
After a long stalemate, a bipartisan team of congressional negotiators has agreed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The law, currently known as No Child Left Behind, sends roughly...
View ArticleHouse Set To Vote On Education Overhaul
It's almost a decade overdue, but the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote later today on a bill to replace the No Child Left Behind law.Since NCLB was signed by President George W. Bush...
View ArticleNew Education Law Passes, With A Power Shift Back To The States
The Senate voted 85-12 on Wednesday to pass the long-awaited rewrite of the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law. President Obama says he'll sign it Thursday.The new version — called the Every...
View ArticleWhat Is Fair? High School Students Talk About Affirmative Action
Now that the Supreme Court is considering the issue of affirmative action in college admissions, all kinds of groups are weighing in. But we're not hearing from the people who will be most affected by...
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