Oregon civil rights group offers scholarships to white students
The Oregon League of Minority Voters is trying a new civil rights tactic: offering scholarships to white students to take classes in race relations.
Top Education (View all Education)
- Is more recess the key to boosting learning?
- Abstinence-only study could alter sex-education landscape
- Education reform: Obama budget reboots No Child Left Behind
- Obama pushes to add $1.35 billion to Race to the Top grants
- Why US high school reform efforts aren't working
- California's education reforms hand more power to parents
- Obama directs $250 million for science and math education
- Education reform: California to join Race to the Top rush
- Why many college dropouts say they left: the need to work
- Eyeing stimulus money for education, states adopt reforms
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Obama’s new push for preschool for at-risk children
President Obama wants to offer states some $1 billion a year to help them improve preschool and early education programs for at-risk children.
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Veterans Day is a teachable moment for many US schools
Schools are mostly finding noncontroversial ways to bring Veterans Day into the classroom. For some students, this is the first time they've ever met a vet.
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Which states are innovative in education? A new report card.
The report card aims to highlight the sorts of innovations in education – such as an extended school day – that lead to better schools.
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Achievement gaps narrowing in US schools since No Child Left Behind
A new study looked at student performance in all 50 states since 2002, when No Child Left Behind Act took effect. The focus: achievement gaps for minority and low-income students.
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Medical school reinvented: Adding lessons in compassion
The education of doctors puts new focus on patients' cultural diversity and serving communities in need.
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TeacherMate: This classroom tool only looks like a toy
Cheap and rugged, the device takes a gaming approach to elementary reading and math.
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Stimulus money puts teachers in layoff limbo
Funds trickle out, leaving many state and local education budgets in flux.
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What schools learned about safety since Columbine
A supportive culture on campus is key, but some schools rely too heavily on security technology.
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The research: Both theory and practice are important
A study looks at the effectiveness of teachers in the New York City schools who came from different training programs.
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Teacher training: what's the best way?
Some policymakers say the focus needs to be on improving traditional education schools, while others are advocates of so-called alternative models, which can speed up entry into the profession.
