National Graduation Rate Increases to All-Time High of 82 Percent
Data for the class of 2014 also showed that graduation gaps between white students and their black and Hispanic peers continued to close, even as each group's rate rose.
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December 08, 2015
Is ESSA the ESEA Reauthorization Bill Arne Duncan Was Hoping For?
The Every Student Succeeds Act would include key Obama administration priorities, such as pre-K, but not others, such as dramatic school turnarounds and teacher evaluation through student outcomes.
November 12, 2015
What the Ed. Dept.'s New Race to the Top Report Reveals, and What It Avoids
The Education Department says all states in the competitive-grant program made progress toward their goals, but makes little mention of areas where they stumbled or backtracked.
November 12, 2015
New SIG Data Serve Up Same Old Conclusion: Mixed Results
The latest Education Department report on the federal School Improvement Grant program paints an uneven picture of SIG's impact, just as Congress is about to decide its fate.
November 10, 2015
Arne Duncan Touts Study Showing 25 Percent Dip in Number of Drop-Outs
"Progress Is No Accident: Why ESEA Can't Backtrack on High School Graduation Rates" also reports that the number of high school "dropout factories" has also declined significantly in recent years.
October 29, 2015
Open-Ed Resources Get Attention in Proposed Ed. Dept. Regulation
Any educational resources created with federal grants would have to be openly licensed under a proposed regulation.
October 29, 2015
CAP Report: Congress Shouldn't Forget 'Subgroup' Students in ESEA Renewal
Some of the biggest achievement gaps are found in schools that are performing well otherwise, a CAP analysis finds.
October 27, 2015
Fact-Checking Arne Duncan: Do Higher Grad Rates Mean His Policies Helped?
Do higher graduation rates mean that the Obama administration's K-12 policies when it comes to school turnarounds and accountability are on the right track, as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has claimed?
October 26, 2015
Arne Duncan, John King: Don't Cap Testing at the Expense of Testing Quality
"Everybody has had a hand in what our current testing system looks like—this situation was not created by just one entity," said Michael Casserly, the executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools.
October 24, 2015
Too Much Testing? Ed. Dept. Outlines Steps to Help States and Districts Cut Back
The U.S. Department of Education has released some general principles for states and districts to help them figure out how to cut back on assessments and ensure that they're used to drive instruction.
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