During his 2012 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama offered several recommendations on education policy, including one specifying that all states ...
For years, colleges have used placement exams to determine whether to deem incoming students “college ready” or assign them to developmental education. ...
Politicians from both sides of the aisle agree: early childhood education plays a crucial role in ensuring America’s global competitiveness. Even amid ...
The author says that students may be too young to understand the word "sequestration". But they will definitely feel the impact when they report to classes ...
The Kids in Need Foundation is dedicated to engaging students in the learning process by providing grants towards the purchase of supplies for students to participate ...
Learning gains in the United States between 1995 and 2009 compared to the rest of the world have been “middling, not stellar,” according to a new report ...
The challenges facing communities today seem almost overwhelming – and are too big for any single organization to solve; too big even for the non-profit sector ...
In recent focus groups community college students expressed some frustration that without clearly defined goals and a clear understanding of how to get there, higher ...
The clock is ticking. If Congress doesn’t come up with a balanced solution to reduce the deficit, across-the-board cuts will kick in automatically. And those ...
The Mary Kay Foundation has partnered with The Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation to fund the Nature Explore Classroom Grants. Nature ...
The Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation grant program provides direct support for children in the areas of Health and Wellness such as childhood disease ...
The Obama administration unveiled plans to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost students' achievement in STEM subjects.
The Mockingbird Foundation, offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that support music education for children. Multiple grants ranging from ...
This series of three special reports examines implementation of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.
The first special report, Schools with Federal ...
What steps must school districts take to create a pipeline of high-quality principals? This Wallace-sponsored feature article describes four key actions: setting ...
The infant mortality rate, the preterm birth rate, and the adolescent birth rate all continued to decline, average mathematics scores increased for 4th and 8th ...
In recent years, much attention has been paid to developing meaningful teacher evaluation systems as a strategy to improve public education, and rightly so. But while ...
t's impossible to overestimate the role that parents can play in their children's education. In addition to being their children's first teachers, parents ...
