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Online course start-ups offer virtually free college
An emerging group of entrepreneurs with influential backing is seeking to lower the cost of higher education from as much as tens of thousands of dollars a year to nearly… Read more
Public employees union heaps cash into GOP ad attacks on Romney
An unlikely combatant has jumped into the big-money battle between independent groups running ads weighing in on the Republican presidential primary: a national union representing public employees. The American Federation… Read more
Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate
After her first year teaching history in a public high school in the District, Jamie Josephson was exhausted and plagued by self-doubt. Teaching had been more grueling than she ever… Read more
Oxford finalists are ‘little better than A level students’, claim tutors
They are supposed to be the brightest in Britain. But some Oxford University students show a “distressing” grasp of their subjects and the answers to their final exams are often… Read more
Newt Gingrich’s ‘elite’ PhD topic
By Valerie Strauss – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich likes to use the word “elites” as a pejorative when he talks about things and people whom he considers liberal. But… Read more
Getting College Credit in High School: Worth It?
As colleges continue to up the ante for admission, high school students are preparing for college before their senior year by exploring post-secondary curriculum options. According to a 2010 study… Read more
Is the Privacy of the American Student at Risk?
School: A place where children learn to read and write. A place where they learn mathematics, science and history. Moreover, a place, away from home, where children are supposed to… Read more
Gifted Education student selection process
Here is the second segment of the third hour-long interview on International (Chinese) TV 55.5 KTBU-Houston. It is in English and Chinese.I have edited out all the commercials and most… Read more
Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project
Tories’ favourite teacher slammed over her proposed secondary school with a ‘private ethos’ in south London Katharine Birbalsingh, the teacher described as a Tory darling for her attacks on state… Read more
Nadine Dorries’s sexual abstinence lessons bill withdrawn
Bill requiring schools to offer extra sex education classes for teenage girls was due to be debated on Friday A controversial bill calling for teenage girls to be given compulsory… Read more
