#askPARCC for info on Common Core-aligned tests
A series of town hall meetings about the 22-state assessment consortium known as PARCC will be held on Twitter, beginning with an introduction to PARCC...
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Is Obama playing politics with student loan rates?
Two slightly different plans for how to deal with student loan rates are up for consideration in Washington: the rate is likely to be tied...
Scripps National Spelling Bee: Arvind Mahankali
By spelling "tokonoma" and "knaidel," Arvind Mahankali won this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. At his fourth appearance in the finals, he conquered "the German...
Montgomery Co., Md., report cards questioned
A new report card format, which reports student progress not against a percent-correct scale of A-E but against the performance standards in the new Common...
Teaching in teams, if done right, can be effective
If team teaching is used to reduce the student:teacher ratio to a very low number, say 6:1, one nonprofit startup has a promising approach, as...
Memorial Day greetings
On this national holiday, we take you back to a story from last year, that of a National Guard soldier who died while saving the...
Executive order enhances access to education data
Reporters and the general public, including entrepreneurs, will soon have quicker access to the vast amount of data stored at the National Center for Education...
GAO report: Cheating suspected on tests in 40 states
The Government Accounting Office says cheating on standardized tests used for accountability purposes is likely to have happened in 40 states. [...]Read More... from GAO...
Audit: Md. schools misspent federal grant money
Baltimore City and Prince George's County may have misspent more than half a million dollars in federal grant money on personal items such as dinner...
With today's vote, 49 public schools will close in Chicago
Chicago Public Schools shut down 49 public school programs, most of them on the city's south and west sides. In the end, protests did little...