Tag: Race to the Top

Weekly Education News Digest, June 26-July 2
Weekly Education News Digest, June 26-July 2

Friday, July 2, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• New provisions to a war financing bill leads to cuts in funds for …

Weekly Education News Digest, May 29-June 4
Weekly Education News Digest, May 29-June 4

Friday, June 4, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• Student loans getting out of hand — whose responsibility is it? (via The …

Race To The Top High School Commencement Challenge: Finalists Announced!

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The White House and the Department of Education just announced the six high school finalists for the 2010 Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. The applications were judged on the basis of school …

Weekly Education News Digest, March 27-April 2
Weekly Education News Digest, March 27-April 2

Friday, April 2, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• Race to the Top winners announced; Delaware and Tennessee emerge as the biggest …

Weekly Education News Digest, February 27-March 5
Weekly Education News Digest, February 27-March 5

Friday, March 5, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• This weekend’s big New York Times Magazine story investigates how to build a …

Weekly Education News Digest, February 20-26
Weekly Education News Digest, February 20-26

Friday, February 26, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• One Rhode Island school has planned to fire all of its teachers by …

Apply by March 15 For A Chance To Have President Obama Speak At Your Graduation

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Want President Obama to speak at your high school graduation? Prove that your school is making “great strides on personal responsibility, academic excellence and college readiness,” and that may just become a reality!
The White House …

Melinda Gates on Education Reform

Today’s Washington Post contains a column by Melinda Gates, who, along with her husband Bill Gates, has long been an advocate for education reform.
In this article, she voices her optimism in favor of the government’s Race …

Education Spending Spared By Government’s Budget Cuts

Obama has proposed increased spending towards education despite cutting budgets almost everywhere else. Most notably, his administration is planning to overhaul the last administration’s infamous No Child Left Behind law.
But with the new funds that Obama …

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