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State-Appointed Board Gets Federal Go-Ahead in El Paso
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The El Paso school district's state-appointed board of managers will be sworn into office this week, after the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice said it would not oppose having such a body run the Texas district for up to two years....Tags: Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Department of Justice, Students, Teaching and Learning, Head Start
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BRIEF: Science Education
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Students in high-performing schools have more and deeper opportunities to learn science than those in struggling schools, according to a Massachusetts course audit released by the Rennie Center, a Boston-based school improvement group. The audit found...Tags: Boston
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NAEP Economics Results Highlight Proficiency Gaps
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.More than half of American 12th graders lack proficiency in economics, according to new results from "the nation's report card," with no overall change in performance when compared with results from 2006, the last time the assessment was administered.... -
BRIEF: Emergency Manager Exiting Detroit District
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Roy Roberts, the emergency manager of the 50,000-student Detroit public school system, will retire on May 16. Mr. Roberts, 74, was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in May 2011. Gov. Snyder has not yet named Mr. Roberts' successor, but said he is...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Government, Rick Snyder
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BRIEF: 'Parent Trigger' Plan Falls Short Again in Fla.
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.For the second year in a row, a tie vote in the Florida Senate has meant defeat for a proposal to allow a "parent trigger" option in the state after such legislation passed the state House of Representatives. The Senate voted 20-20 last week on the...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, PTA, Florida Legislature, Jeb Bush
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Online Testing Suffers Setbacks in Multiple States
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Widespread technical failures and interruptions of recent online testing in a number of states have shaken the confidence of educators and policymakers in high-tech assessment methods and raised serious concerns about schools' technological readiness...Tags: Science and Technology, Teachers, Mining, Metal and Mineral, Glen Burnie
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BRIEF: Early Childhood
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The practice of "academic redshirting"--delaying kindergarten entry to give a child more time to mature--may be less prevalent than is commonly believed, according to a study published last month in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.... -
Ed. Funders Giving More to Same Few, Say Studies
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.As more and more foundation money floods into K-12 education, it is being channeled to fewer and fewer groups, according to new research presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting here last week. Researchers also found that...Tags: Stanford University, Finance, Teachers, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), University of Michigan
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BRIEF: Chicago Students Skip State Test in Protest
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Students angry over the proposed shuttering of more than 50 schools in Chicago next year skipped the second day of state testing last month to protest the closures, according to local media reports. The threat of hundreds of high school students...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Battle Over Evaluations Continues in Buffalo
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The Buffalo, N.Y., school system says it will no longer honor a deal it had made with its teachers' union not to dismiss educators based on new evaluations--but the union is pledging to fight to keep the deal alive. In negotiations with the Buffalo...Tags: Justice System, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning
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BRIEF: Philadelphia District Plans to Open Online School
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The Philadelphia school district, which has been plagued by budget woes and declining enrollment, has announced plans to open a virtual academy to lure students and families back to the system. The goal is to make the Philadelphia Virtual Academy the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students
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Alternative Proposed to IEP Due Process System
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Due process hearings involving students with disabilities are adversarial, expensive, and distracting, says the American Association of School Administrators. Now, the group is proposing a fix: a new process that would bring in an outside consultant who...Tags: Laws, Separation of Church and State, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Crime, Law and Justice, John Kline
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