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Gov. Cuomo is set to impose new teacher evaluation system if no agreement with unions
Gov. Cuomo will give New York’s teachers one month to agree to a statewide performance evaluation plan — or he’ll write his own educator-rating scheme into the budget for legislative… Read more
Bloomberg education reform campaign could leave New York City on the hook for $350 million a year
Bloomy’s proposals aim to weed out teachers at 33 low-performing city schools, while rewarding top-notch instructors with $20,000 raises To save his legacy as an education reformer, Mayor Bloomberg has… Read more
Young U.S. Citizens in Mexico Up Early to Learn in the U.S.
TIJUANA, Mexico — Weekday mornings at 5, when the lights on distant hillsides across the border still twinkle in the blackness, Martha, a high school senior, begins her arduous three-hour… Read more
No-bid $10 million contract deal for Klein co.
$10 million contract could go to ex-chancellor’s firm A COMPANY run by a former city schools boss is in line for a nearly $10 million no-bid contract to track student… Read more
Political Science in the 21st Century
Is political science positioned to embrace and incorporate the changing demographics, increasing multicultural diversity, and ever-growing disparities in the concentration of wealth present in many nation-states? Can political science do… Read more
Look Who’s Endorsing a Race-Based View of Knowledge
By Robert Weissberg – The campus diversity warriors are once again pounding at the gates. This time the pounding comes from on high–the American Political Science Association (APSA) itself. It… Read more
Are school vouchers OK in Arizona?
PHOENIX – Each Sunday, ABC15.com debuts an Arizona issue – along with two opposing sides on the topic. Don’t worry, you always have the opportunity to make comments at the… Read more
Severe peanut allergy prompts family to abandon LAUSD for Palos Verdes Peninsula schools
Yael Kozar of Rolling Hills Estates was getting ready to take her two young daughters for a walk a decade ago when she gave them both a bite of a… Read more
NCAA Seeking Modifications to New Scholarship Aid Plan
Bowing to widespread dissent among its member institutions, directors of the NCAA Division I on Saturday moved to defuse objections to a new scholarship aid plan by delaying its proposed… Read more
In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges
To become an economic powerhouse, India needs to educate as many as 100 million young people over the next 10 years – something never done before. Here’s a job most… Read more
