Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 27

Faculty & Staff

Experts Differ on Route to Getting Talented Teachers to Most Challenged Schools

Consideration of talent, diversity and effectiveness urged in the ongoing struggle to boost student achievement, but should a ‘bar exam’ also be part of the process?

April 4, 2013

Students

Mass. Sues For-Profit School for False Marketing

A for-profit school offered so little training that students who paid hefty fees to train as medical assistants never learned how to use a stethoscope, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by prosecutors in Massachusetts.

April 3, 2013

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Still Has More Work to Do in Technology Education

According to a recent survey, China leads in integrating technology into the curriculum, its students spend more time using technology in school and say their teachers are technologically savvy.

March 31, 2013

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Special Report: Technology and Online Edition

Technology and Online Edition – Thought Cloud: Burgeoning MOOC wave transforming the higher ed landscape; HBCUs riding the distance learning wave; Does e-learning exacerbate achievement gaps? Social media leveraged to enhance learning experience

March 29, 2013

African-American

Fostering Diversity: A Necessary Step for HBCU Survival

Historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, have provided a top-notch education for African-Americans since pre-Civil War days.

March 28, 2013

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New Report Emphasizes Accountability from Secondary Schools

Experts say that educators should invest more effort into high-achieving students in high-poverty schools.

March 28, 2013

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Judge Again Orders Stop to Mo. College Drug Tests

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A federal judge on Friday again blocked efforts by a central Missouri technical college to drug-test its students, a policy challenged as unconstitutional by the American Civil Liberties Union.

March 24, 2013

Students

Will New Report Move Colleges Toward a Color-Blind Sense of Diversity?

Anti-affirmative action advocates (from both the left and right), have long said it was really all about class — not race — in the quest for equal opportunity in student admission.

March 18, 2013

Sports

Number of High School Students Taking College Courses Surges

Report from 2010-2011 school year shows a 67 percent increase from 2002-2003, the last time the National Center for Education Statistics counted.

March 18, 2013

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Congress, Education Leaders Discuss Workforce Development Initiatives

On the same day that several top Republican lawmakers trekked to a Virginia community college to tout the proposed SKILLS Act as the solution to a “broken” federal workforce development system, a pair of national higher education leaders informed Congress that the bill has several downsides for community colleges.

March 14, 2013

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Texas Senate Considers Changes to School Testing

Texas senators started a debate Tuesday that will likely last for weeks as lawmakers try to decide how many standardized tests students must take to graduate from high school.

March 12, 2013

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Sequestration Expected to Squeeze Already Tight Job Market for Teachers

Some 30,000 teachers and teachers’ aides in roughly half of the states won’t get hired next year because of the cuts by the federal government, the White House reported.

March 7, 2013