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MOOCs Provider in Higher Ed. Targets K-12 Teacher PD
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, the Silicon Valley company Coursera and its partners at universities and other institutions are courting a new and potentially vast audience, one that is becoming increasingly accustomed...Tags: University of Washington, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University , Occupations
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BRIEF: Ready for College
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.An analysis finds many states are taking steps to assess early whether high school students are prepared for college. Some form of early-college-readiness assessments are offered in 38 states, and 29 states have structured interventions to help reduce...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education
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CORRECTION: Correction
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.A story in the May 8, 2013, issue of Education Week about the nation's education policy debates misstated the timing of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's appearance at the NewSchools Venture Fund summit. It occurred May 1, a day after his speech...Tags: Arne Duncan, Watertown
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Teacher Pay Hikes Found to Falter
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.While teacher salaries continued to increase on average during the recent economic downturn, they did so at a much slower pace, according to a study from the National Council on Teacher Quality. The study by the Washington-based research and advocacy...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Funding for La. Voucher Program is Declared Unconstitutional
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the current method of funding the state's far-reaching voucher program is unconstitutional, in a blow to one of the most sweeping private school choice efforts in the country. Twelve states and the District...Tags: Politics, American Federation of Teachers, Government
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BRIEF: Texas and Mass. Mull Lifting Charter Caps
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Efforts are afoot in Massachusetts and Texas to raise caps on the number of charter schools. In Texas, a Senate bill would raise the cap on the number of charters allowed from the current limit of 215 to 305 in 2019. (A group with one charter from the...Tags: Boston, Thomas Menino
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BRIEF: Latino Students
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Latino students have reached a new milestone in the United States: A higher percentage of those who graduate from high school are enrolling in college compared with white graduates. In the class of 2012, a record 69 percent of Hispanic high school...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Schools, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Common Core Supporters Firing Back
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and initiating coordinated public relations and advertising...Tags: Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Jeb Bush, Politics, Advertising
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BRIEF: School Sports
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Most high school football players believe it's OK to play through concussion symptoms, despite knowing the risk of serious injury, suggests a study presented last week in Boston at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies. Physicians...Tags: High School Sports
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NSF's Peer-Review Process on GOP Radar
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Congressional Republicans are broadening attempts to exert more control over the peer-review process for the National Science Foundation, in a move that could chill research into politically controversial education topics. House Science, Space, and...Tags: Science and Technology, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Lamar S. Smith, Research, Science
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BRIEF: Wis. Private Schools Warned About Access
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Wisconsin private schools that accept publicly funded vouchers must not discriminate against students with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a guidance letter. The department investigated after a complaint from the American Civil...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Education, U.S. Department of Justice, Teaching and Learning
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E-Rate Needs Overhaul for Digital Era, Experts Argue
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.As school districts strive to put more technology into schools to support 1-to-1 computing initiatives and prepare for the common-core online assessments, the federal E-rate program is in danger of becoming as outdated and insufficient as a sputtering...Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Media Industry, Federal Communications Commission, Students, Politics
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