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Spec. Ed. Is Funding Early Help
by Christina A. Samuels Bit by bit, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to pull down the walls that have traditionally separated general and special education. One facet of the plan is the department’s support of response to intervention, or RTI, an educational technique…
Author: Education Week
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Tricky Road Ahead for Innovation Fund
Original source Teach for America and Grantmakers for Education are Atlantic grantees. By Erik W. Robelen Federal education officials will face a variety of obstacles in running a $650 million innovation fund, from an expected flood of applications and concern about favoritism in picking winners,…
Author: Education Week
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SOUTH AFRICA: Poor marks for education
CAPE TOWN, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) – Instead of providing much needed opportunities, South Africa’s ailing education system is keeping children from poor households at the back of the job queue and locking families into poverty for another generation. By the age of eight, school…
Author: IRIN News
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Special Invitation - Quality Peer Learning Community call - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. EST
The APAN Online Community extends an invitation for you to join their next Quality Peer Learning Community call on Wednesday, July 9th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, featuring guest speaker Dr. Claudia Weisburd, Executive Director of the Center for Afterschool Education at…
Author: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
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Education Department: Civil Rights Laws Apply Equally to Charters
By Evie Blad (cross-posted from Charters & Choice) The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued guidance today clarifying that charter schools have the same obligations to abide by federal civil rights laws as regular public schools. The “Dear Colleague” letter by Assistant…
Author: Education Week
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Higher Achievement CEO Featured on US Department of Education's Television Series, Education News Parents Can Use
Higher Achievement is an Atlantic grantee. Today, Richard Tagle, Higher Achievement CEO, will be featured on the television series Education News that Parents Can Use (Education News), to speak about how programs like Higher Achievement help prevent the academic slide and promote achievement. Education News is the…
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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education
by SAM DILLON CHICAGO — It was the morning after the presidential election, and Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a national organization devoted to early childhood education, could barely contain his exultation. Mr. Melmed fired off an e-mail message to his board…
Author: The New York Times
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Primary education groups unite to criticise 'shameful' cutbacks
THE CAMPAIGN against the education cuts gained further momentum yesterday as 10 groups involved in primary education united to criticise the “shameful and immoral” cutbacks. The National Alliance for Primary Education – an umbrella group representing school managers, principals, parents and teachers – described…
Author: The Irish Times
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Rethinking Discipline
Kenneth Thomas, a 7th grader, ponders a lesson in his PRIDE 101 class at Haut Gap Middle School. As part of the school’s approach to addressing behavior, all students take a course in how to be a Haut Gap student. —Amelia Phillips Hale for Education…
Author: Education Week
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Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award
Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award Elev8 Picked as a Model School-Community Partnership As Part of Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Program WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized two sites…
Author: Elev8