New Faces Among Contract Winners for Regional Educational Labs
The next iteration of the nation's regional educational laboratory system will have some new faces. Read Full Post >
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December 29, 2011
November 07, 2011
New Census Measure Finds Fed Programs Lower Child Poverty
The U.S. Census Bureau is releasing a new supplementary poverty measure that provides a more comprehensive picture of American families. Read Full Post >
October 10, 2011
Experts: Recovery Law Leading to More Data Reporting
Education and other programs are generating and reporting unprecedented amounts of data, but federal agencies are only just beginning to build the processes needed to ensure those data are timely and accurate enough to use for measuring program performance, experts say. Read Full Post >
March 08, 2011
President Obama Pushes Fleshed-Out ARPA-Ed Proposal
The push to create a high-tech Advanced Research Projects Agency for education in the style of the Sputnik-era Defense agency is getting top political backing this afternoon from President Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Melinda Gates. Read Full Post >
February 22, 2011
House CR Passage Signals Bumpy Road for Regional Education Labs
Advocates of the regional education laboratories are hitting the Senate this week, hoping to save the labs after the House approved eliminating their funding early Sunday. Read Full Post >
February 15, 2011
Study: District Support Strategies Can Impede School Turnaround
As hundreds of districts work to turnaround low-performing schools via federal school improvement grants, administrators' strategies for supporting the schools can sometimes hinder their progress, warns a new report by the Center for American Progress and the Broad Foundation. Read Full Post >
December 08, 2009
What Have We Learned About Restructuring under NCLB?
A new study examines lessons from five years of restructuring under the No Child Left Behind Act. Read Full Post >
May 11, 2009
Education Research Is a Winner in Obama's 2010 Budget
President Obama's proposed 2010 federal budget contains sizable spending increases for federal education research. Read Full Post >
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