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Yahoo Finance
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON—Fixing education for kids around the globe and creating sustainable conditions for them to attend school would come with a massive price tag, according to the head of the Global Partnership for Education. During an event with policymakers and financial leaders at the World BankÃâà...
Employee Benefit News
April 20, 2018
Kroger will spend about $130 million more per year on employee benefits, including a more generous 401(k) benefit and a new education-assistance perk that will allow both part- and full-time workers the chance to go back to school. The supermarket giant, the country's third largest employer, announcedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 20, 2018
In Ogun, the coordinating team collaborated with the ministries of education, health, agriculture, women's affairs and community development to divide farmers into cooperative groups and link them to about 3,000 cooks who were trained and deployed to more than 1,500 schools. Farmers received trainingÃâà...
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
April 20, 2018
It's been a big week for Chicago Public Schools. The budget process for individual schools is starting much earlier than in previous years, elections for local school councils just wrapped up Thursday and the Illinois State Board of Education has finally presented findings on a monthslong investigation intoÃâà...
Mississippi Today
April 20, 2018
Results from a recent audit show that while the Mississippi Department of Education has made progress in its financial and contracting procedures, the agency still has work to do with the way it tracks federal grants. At a State Board of Education meeting Thursday, representatives from accounting firmÃâà...
Duluth News Tribune
April 20, 2018
More than 250 educators from around the Northland gathered in Duluth on Thursday for the Northland Foundation's 2018 Early Childhood Summit, which included policy updates from Bobbie Burnham, director of early learning at the Minnesota Department of Education, and Kelly Monson, executiveÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 20, 2018
Two education organizations who had supported Ducey's plan to give teachers pay raises have withdrawn their support for the #20by2020 measure. Loading… Post to Facebook. Save Our Schools, Arizona PTA drop support for Ducey's teacher pay-raise plan Two education organizations who hadÃâà...
GeekWire
April 20, 2018
ASU+GSV has become edtech's largest industry-facing conference. (GeekWire Photo / Frank Catalano). SAN DIEGO — After several years of waiting for the K-12 market to grow faster, and a couple of years getting schooled in higher education, education technology investors seem to have decidedÃâà...
wivb.com
April 19, 2018
BUFFALO - Dr. Frederick A. Gelsey says he didn't know what his son was listening to or doing - he didn't know what was going on with him. Now, he'll never have a chance to address any issues because he isn't around. Frederick Jr. was murdered in 2011; shot three times - twice in the head and once inÃâà...
The Courier-Journal
April 19, 2018
An abrupt shakeup at the Kentucky Education Department could have far-reaching impact on the future of the state's public schools. So, what's happened so far? After criticism from the governor and pressure from the state education board, Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt resignedÃâà...
Austin American-Statesman
April 19, 2018
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew White said Wednesday he wants to raise $6.5 billion for public education and would pay for it by expanding gambling in Texas, ending a property appraisal law and redirecting the state's share of border security funding. White, an investor in Houston and son of the late Gov.
The Advocate
April 19, 2018
Kim Hunter Reed, a Colorado educator who has spent most of her career in Louisiana, was picked Wednesday to be the next Commissioner of Higher Education. Reed, 52, was selected by the Louisiana Board of Regents after a months-long search. She will be the first African American to hold the job.
The Tennessean
April 19, 2018
Lawmakers grilled the state's education chief for more than two hours Wednesday amid another round of mishaps for Tennessee's TNReady assessment test. Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said she went before the committee, with humility, to apologize. "We were devastated," sheÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
April 19, 2018
The U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos has recently taken steps to walk back the agency's role in protecting the civil rights of LGBTQ students. In multiple congressional appearances, for example, DeVos has consistently declined to say that the department will protect LGBTQÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 19, 2018
“We did find that there is a lack of regular, coordinated and comprehensive training to provide CPS special education staff the knowledge that they need to implement the special education system,” ISBE general counsel Stephanie Jones said as she presented a summary of an investigative panel'sÃâà...
Concord Monitor
April 16, 2018
SB 193 has nothing to do with vouchers. SB 193 established education savings accounts, which are similar to health savings accounts. The state money that would have gone to the school district to educate the child would instead go to parents so they could find the best education opportunity for their child.
KIIITV.com
April 16, 2018
A group of Ave Maria University graduates are calling on their alma mater to rescind its invitation to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to speak at the university's commencement ceremony in May. Ave Maria President Jim Towey announced DeVos had accepted the offer in January. Ave Maria'sÃâà...
WV News
April 16, 2018
CHARLESTON — With new national data spotlighting how West Virginia students fair in reading and math, the state Department of Education is gearing up to consider new ways to improve student achievement in the latter. A federal education agency released scores from the National Assessment ofÃâà...
Youth Today
April 16, 2018
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Inside Higher Ed
April 16, 2018
Here they go again. After halting and gutting two major rules that were put in place to safeguard students and taxpayers from predatory and abusive practices, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is apparently planning yet another round of deregulation that will dismantle key protections against fraud, wasteÃâà...
Chalkbeat Colorado
April 16, 2018
Good evening, and welcome to the post-state assembly edition of Capitol Report. It's been an emotional week in education news and one that brought together many of the crosscurrents and tensions in the work to make sure every child gets a good education. As you might have heard by now, theÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
April 16, 2018
The uncertainty and economic decline that has plagued Greece has affected all spheres of society, but education has been particularly hard hit. Public spending has shrunk by 40 percent, and more than one hundred schools, as well as a number of university departments, have closed. Many Greek youthÃâà...
CBS Denver
April 16, 2018
Teachers said they wanted not only increased pay, but better funding for their facilities. Some said closing corporate tax loopholes and credits would help resolve some of the state's funding issues. The Colorado Education Association said teachers in Colorado, on average, spend more than $600 of theirÃâà...
ZDNet
April 16, 2018
Reliance has announced purchasing 72.69 percent of shares on a fully diluted basis of Bengaluru-based Embibe, an artificial intelligence-based education platform. Reliance has agreed to invest up to $180 million over three years into Embibe, which uses data analytics to deliver personalised learning toÃâà...
Air Force Link
April 3, 2018
Starting this year, senior raters will be able to nominate up to 30 percent of their eligible Line of the Air Force officers to compete at the Central Professional Military Education Board. Previously, senior raters could only nominate 20 percent for IDE, and 25 percent for SDE. This means more officers willÃâà...
UT The Daily Texan
April 3, 2018
Student safety was a central topic during my freshman orientation, but I was never informed that two UT students had died from drug overdose months before. As public health experts anticipate the opioid crisis to worsen in Texas, proactivity in sharing key resources and information is a necessity. CampusÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 3, 2018
The venture-backed “unicorn” has been a late-stage company for several years now. Co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard built the foundations of the education technology business back in 2004. Like many startups outside of Silicon Valley, it bootstrapped its business and didn't raise significant outsideÃâà...
Fox Baltimore
April 3, 2018
The Accountability in Education Act, which was partially spurred by Project Baltimore investigations, creates a state-wide Investigator General devoted to investigating our state's public education system. Governor Hogan introduced the bill. But so far, it's stuck in both House and Senate committees where it was introduced.
Cincinnati.com
April 3, 2018
FRANKFORT – Thousands of Kentucky teachers stormed the state capital Monday, blasting lawmakers for passing an unpopular pension reform and demanding a reprieve from expected cuts to the state education budget. “I wouldn't feel very good about myself as a teacher if I wasn't here,” said Andy Price,Ãâà...
Pharmacy Times
April 3, 2018
Research shows potential vaccination barriers include financial concerns, parental attitudes, and the need for more education.2 Other barriers include low perceived risk of infection, incomplete preventative care or vaccination series, and attitudes pertaining to how the vaccine may affect sexual behavior.2Ãâà...
The State Press
April 3, 2018
Marino did interview me for his opinion column but was more swayed by recent caricatures of our school in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education than by facts evident in our first year at ASU. Our curriculum is more complex than any of these portraits bothers to indicate; we in fact attractÃâà...
WRAL.com
April 3, 2018
Buies Creek, N.C. — An elementary education student at Campbell University was arrested late last month by Pennsylvania authorities who accused the 21-year-old student of obtaining a sexually explicit photo of a 12-year-old boy. Kevin Patrick Barron, of Horsham, Pennsylvania, was charged with twoÃâà...
NPR
April 3, 2018
AMANDA CARTER: I love my state, but right now I feel like they're kind of abandoning us or they don't care about education. CORNISH: In Oklahoma today there was a similar scene as tens of thousands of teachers there walked off the job and rallied at the state Capitol. They got a pay raise last week, butÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 1, 2018
The high cost of education is considered a main cause of the sunken birth rate. If educating your children as the economy demands its top tier be educated requires means beyond the average, means beyond you, childlessness might well seem the more responsible option. There's education and educationÃâà...
HuffPost
April 1, 2018
There are at least four bathroom-related cases throughout the country, including Curts', that have been dismissed by the Trump administration amid this policy change. In response to these claims ― which deal with school districts in Hawaii, Michigan, Texas and Florida ― the Education Department's OfficeÃâà...
Concord Monitor
April 1, 2018
There are many well-known arguments against establishing education freedom savings accounts. Here, I would like to describe a little-considered consequence of the passage of the voucher program: It will result in the loss of parents in our public schools who are willing to advocate for the children withinÃâà...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
April 1, 2018
Continuous-quality improvement offers a proven long-term improvement model. Vermont and Maine have entered into a partnership aimed at improving pediatric care. All pediatricians in Vermont have willingly committed to it. With years of effective operation, it offers a model for such a system in education.
OCRegister
April 1, 2018
I love living in California. Much of the rest of the U.S. envies our lifestyle and weather — especially after the recent nor'easters that have piled snow on the East Coast. Yet, while much about California is terrific, our education system for our children is wanting and needs to be fixed. Thankfully not all of theÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
April 1, 2018
With all the talk in Washington about President Donald Trump looking for people in his cabinet to boot because they don't, in his opinion, make the cut, we offer one name that rises to the top among a cornucopia of cabinet secretaries worthy of the sack: Betsy DeVos, U.S. secretary of education. There is aÃâà...
GeekWire
March 31, 2018
Amazon will close its TenMarks online math and writing learning service after the 2018-2019 school year, the latest surprise twist in the tech giant's foray into education technology. The company broke the news in emails to customers this week and in a message on the TenMarks website. “We're windingÃâà...
Mississippi Today
March 31, 2018
After months of back and forth, the U.S. Department of Education approved Mississippi's expansive state education plan. Federal officials approved the Mississippi Succeeds plan this week, along with those proposed by Idaho and Rhode Island. “The state plans met ESSA's (Every Student Succeeds Act)Ãâà...
QSR magazine
March 29, 2018
“Our commitment to education reinforces our ongoing support of the people who play a crucial role in our journey to build a better McDonald's,” said Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's president and CEO, in a statement. “By offering restaurant employees more opportunities to further their education and pursue their careerÃâà...
Lincoln Journal Star
March 29, 2018
Lydia Brasch on Thursday succeeded in convincing lawmakers to pull a bill overhauling Nebraska's civics and Americanism education requirements from committee to the ... Her priority bill (LB1069) failed to advance from the Education Committee, gathering only four of eight votes to move it to general file.
WDTN.com
March 29, 2018
Supported by The Dayton Foundation, the program identifies promising Dayton-area eighth grade students with financial barriers and motivates them to pursue higher education. College Promise pairs students with mentors who meet with them regularly four four years, evaluating grades, goals andÃâà...
Science Daily
March 29, 2018
Published March 29 in the journal Science, the largest-ever observational study of undergraduate STEM education monitored nearly 550 faculty as they taught more than 700 courses at 25 institutions across the United States and Canada. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Marilyne Stains and herÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 29, 2018
Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge Island, who heads the House higher education committee. That will cost an additional $18.5 million in 2019, $38 million in 2020 and $59 million in 2021. Ranker had proposed making the State Need Grant an entitlement, but that bill failed. The University of Washington'sÃâà...
Fast Company
March 29, 2018
Despite all these ugly realities, Apple used its Tuesday event to clearly explain a comprehensive and well-considered plan for the value that iPads and Apple software could add to education. There was none of the (dare I say) jaunty 1800s missionary “meet your new god” swagger that I sensed in theÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 29, 2018
Noah Karvelis, (center) a teacher and leader in Arizona Educators United, speaks as Dylan Wegela, also a teacher and leader in Arizona Educators United, listens as they list their demands for Arizona leaders during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Wednesday, March 28, 2018Ãâà...
NPR
March 29, 2018
Public education is a facilitator of inequality in a way that I think is very unfortunate. But I want to make this clear. Meanwhile, where integration is achieved - where communities choose better public policies that encourage rather than discourage integration, you get the benefits of integration. Children of allÃâà...
Moneyish
March 29, 2018
But the then 22-year-old single mom had to get to work immediately to support her two kids before she could continue her own education, so she got a job at a Hermitage, Tenn. Taco Bell. “I used to carry a Spanish-English dictionary in my pocket,” Spencer, who started out in the kitchen making tacos andÃâà...
