by USA Education News | posted: April 17, 2012
A handful of states are gradually adopting licensing tests that measure aspiring elementary teachers’ ability to master aspects of what’s arguably their most important task: teaching students to read….
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 16, 2012
More than 300 students from across the state will meet at Kodiak High School at the semiannual Alaska Association of Student Governments Conference for a chance to make important decisions regarding s…
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 13, 2012
A handful of children in a tiny Alaska village saw street lights, sports cars, and escalators for the first time last year on a trip to California, and now the same group has its sights set on the nat…
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 12, 2012
Facebook has announced its new Groups for Schools effort, which will allow students at colleges and universities to create exclusive groups for their students and professors. As it is, however, the ne…
Continue Reading →Rumors of the death of arts education in public schools have been greatly exaggerated, new data suggest. Over the past decade, the availability of music and visual-arts instruction—on average—has changed little, and remains high, when compared w…
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 12, 2012
An advocacy group filed a complaint this week against the New Caney school district in Texas because the district won’t let a 5-year-old student with cerebral palsy use her walker at school. The girl,…
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 11, 2012
In an effort to draw attention to the initiatives funded by the now-defunct federal grant program, Enhancing Education Through Technology—or EETT—the State Educational Technology Directors Associa…
Continue Reading →by USA Education News | posted: April 9, 2012
Petersburg High School sits on an island in Alaska’s Southeast Panhandle, where most of the land is a national forest, and the 140-student school in recent years has struggled with dwindling enrollme…
Continue Reading →Alaska has agreed to settle a 14-year-old lawsuit that alleged inequities in funding for rural public schools. Terms of the agreement, which a judge must approve, call for funding five high-priority school construction projects in rural Alaska over the…
Continue Reading →Advocates for Native American students fear the state No Child Left Behind Act waivers may end up allowing schools and districts to ignore Native students and lead to a loss of information on their progress. The National Indian Education Association, a…
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