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For teachers looking for even more help with the Common Core, NBC focused heavily on the Common Core during its recent Education Nation Summit.

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This past November, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization published their most recent global science report, analyzing the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, education and industry during the past five years.

New population projections from IIASA researchers provide a fundamentally improved view of future population, structured by age, sex, and level of education, which differ from recent projections by the United Nations.

The Nation's recent online learning expose, How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools, in its zeal to connect various dots into a narrative of a corporate public education takeover, makes critical errors.

While the recent passing of President Barack Obama's education stimulus package may come as a relief to many schools in the nation, it also raises serious questions about the distribution of funding, as well as the best ways to spend the money wisely.

During the 2005 — 06 school year, the most recent year for which U.S. Department of Education data are available, the nation's public schools spent $ 187 billion in salaries and $ 59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel.

Today, in the wake of new energy in Washington D.C., new focus in the educational and philanthropic communities, and with the recent release of the film «Waiting for Superman,» the nation is getting a better picture of what is wrong with public education in America.

Whether it's Waiting for «Superman» and other recent films, Oprah, NBC's Education Nation, the L.A. Times's publication of individual teacher data (and signs that something similar will soon happen in New York), or the emergence of a cadre of bona fide Democratic education reformers, tremors canEducation Nation, the L.A. Times's publication of individual teacher data (and signs that something similar will soon happen in New York), or the emergence of a cadre of bona fide Democratic education reformers, tremors caneducation reformers, tremors can be felt.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

In my recent involvement with the six - nation * European Union - funded study of Science Education and Diversity, headed by Rupert Wegerif at the University of Exeter, I worked with the Dutch team (leader, Michiel van Eijck) using questionnaires, interviews and focus groups with 10 - 14 year olds in the six nations.

On March 16th, 1998, President Clinton convened leaders from government, business, education, and the scientific community to discuss how the nation should respond to recent findings from the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS) showing that U.S. 12th graders lagged below the international average in science and math.

Given the recent interest in Illinois» state pension plans, it's worth your time to watch this video explaining how Illinois became one of the worst funded states in the nation and the consequences for the state's education funding:

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

Criticizing those before and after A Nation at Risk who have urged education reform in the interest of maintaining economic growth, he wrote in a recent Washington Post essay, «None of these fine gentlemen provided any data on the relationship between the economy's health and the performance of schools.

A cadre of the nation's governors has devoted an unprecedented amount of time and energy to promoting improvements in public education in recent years.

At the University of Notre Dame, the Alliance for Catholic Education program trains recent college graduates to become teachers and principals in needy Catholic schools across the nation.

The most recent annual Gallup poll on attitudes toward schooling reported that just 20 % of respondents said «improving the nation's lowest - performing schools» was the most important of the nation's education challenges.

His update of that landmark critique will conclude that the nation's education system «is getting a little bit better, but it is nowhere near where it should be,» Mr. Bennett said in a recent speech before the National School Boards Association.

The first is a database on the extent and characteristics of school choice in the nation's 100 + largest school districts, as reported in the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), the most recent version of which is found here.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

NSBA's Center for Public Education's recent report, Fixing the teacher shortage pipeline, finds that while the nation as a whole is awarding more teacher licenses, making progress on this issue lies in getting the right teachers with the right qualifications to where they are needed the most.

One of my most recent posts was about William Sanders — developer of the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System (TVAAS), which is now more popularly known as the Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS ®)-- and his forthcoming 2015 James Bryant Conant Award — one of the nation's most prestigious education honors, that will be awarded to him this next month by the Education Commission of the StatEducation Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS ®)-- and his forthcoming 2015 James Bryant Conant Award — one of the nation's most prestigious education honors, that will be awarded to him this next month by the Education Commission of the Stateducation honors, that will be awarded to him this next month by the Education Commission of the StatEducation Commission of the States (ECS).

In fact, just last week, Dropout Nation's Rishawn Biddle wrote about the recent release of the National Education Association's 2010 - 2011 LM - 2 filing, a required Department of Labor annual report.

One recent study found that a major difference between the education system in the United States and those in other nations with high - performing students is that the United States offers much lower pay to educators.

At a recent meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), The Learning Policy Institute presented findings from a comprehensive study of teacher residencies across the nation.

Students from another L.A. area school, Granada Hills Charter, traveled to our Nation's Capital, where they met with top education and local leaders to celebrate their recent National Decathlon Championship.

SALT LAKE CITY — A majority of the nation's school district superintendents believe the Common Core State Standards are appropriately challenging and will improve education, according to a recent survey.

A new report from the National Education Association (NEA) is the latest in a recent flood of attention to the lack of diversity among the nation's teaching workforce.

And while states and cites have been adding to their preschool budgets and creating or expanding preschool programs in recent years, the comparatively slow pace of change is leaving us increasingly far behind early education in other developed nations.

The conference was the nation's largest convening of education leaders and dropout prevention practitioners on the topic of improving K - 12 graduation rates in recent years.

The bill is one in a series of recent legislation that encourages whole child education across the nation.

The Building a Grad Nation report is based on the most recent comprehensive data from the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education (2013 - 14).

It's an important year for teacher raises, as many public education advocates point out recent pay increases passed on by GOP leadership in the legislature have brought the average teacher pay in North Carolina to just 42nd in the nation, with average pay of more than $ 47,000.

Once a George H.W. Bush education official and an advocate for greater testing - based accountability, Diane Ravitch has in recent years become the nation's highest - profile opponent of Michelle Rhee's style of charter - based education reform (one also espoused by Barack Obama).

The recent education legislation passed in Illinois is nothing short of historic: newly passed legislation overhauls the most regressive funding formula in the nation.

Cross-posted on Education Week In a response to my recent post concerning NCEE's study of the expectations of the nation's community colleges for incoming freshman, Andy Zuckerman wrote the following: I have great respect for Marc Tucker.

A recent news report trumpeted the state's highest - in - the - nation graduation rankings as proof of the excellence of New Jersey's public education.

«If we don't find some common ground — and some common national values — around children, we are indeed a nation at risk,» writes ASCD Executive Director Dr. Gene Carter in his recent Education Week commentary.

He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

Back in May 2010, hundreds of the nation's education foundation, policy, and practice elites were gathered for the NewSchools Venture Fund meeting in Washington to celebrate and learn from the most recent education...

NAESP, in advancing this call, stated, «We come together as national education organizations in the wake of troubling reports of bias incidents and violence occurring in schools across the nation in recent days.

Since then, he oversaw the implementation of one of the nation's most ambitious education overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent ineducation overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent inEducation, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent in Indiana.

According to a recent article in the Nation magazine entitled, 9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York's Public Schools — Here's Their Story, both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Families for Excellent Schools Board of Directors are among the super elite that are funding the extraordinary effort to undermine public education in the United States.

The state's national ranking for per - pupil spending in 2014 - 2015 lingered at a lowly 43rd in the nation, according to a recent report (page 55, figure H - 11) from the National Education Association.

Download the Southern Education Foundation's recent report, «A New Majority: Low - Income Students Now a Majority in the Nation's Public Schools,» here.

In recent years, policy - makers and major education foundations and advocacy groups have focused attention on the nation's high school dropouts — with good reason.

Although there are no statewide numbers, a recent study from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education suggests that as much as 15 percent of the nation's students qualify annually as chronically absent.

The recent spotlight on circumstances surrounding our nation's education system has highlighted the need for positive school reform.

Duncan used the bus trip, which ran from Sept. 7 - 9, to spread his gospel and passion about education reform in a harsh economic climate; to amplify his oft - stated belief that America's schools are failing as other nations» improve; and to stump for his recent decision to waive components of NCLB in exchange for favored reforms.

During the 2002 - 03 school year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education — data that probably are outdated already, but which represent the most recent figures available — students at 71 % of the nation's high schools took courses for dual credit, meaning that they earned credits that counted toward a high school diploma and a college degree simultaneously.