Washington Post:
LOS ANGELES -- Amid vocal protests, one of the largest university systems in the nation voted Thursday to raise fees for undergraduates by 32 percent over the coming year, impelled by steep state budget cuts.
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New York Times:
Two different measures of progress explain the discrepancy, said officials from the New York City Department of Education.
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New York Times:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a donation of $290 million to support groups working to transform how teachers are evaluated and how they get tenure.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of California regents were scheduled to vote on a 32 percent student fee increase.The UC Board of Regents is considering boosting undergraduate fees – the equivalent of tuition – by $2,500 by 2010. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The White House says it wants to remake public education around the principle that the best teachers should be rewarded, regardless of seniority. A brawl over just that idea is now playing out in Washington. (Read More)
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories:
Four 2009 U.S. Professors of the Year are being recognized today by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) ...
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Huffington Post:
As lawmakers stand poised to cut $260 million in K-12 education funding, the state's teachers union and other school advocates are playing defense and keeping their options -- including a possible lawsuit -- open.The Colorado Education Association has launched the "Honor 23" campaign, named for the state constitutional amen (Read More)
National Review Online:
The liberal writ was that a strutting “bring ’em on” George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene. His “unilateral” America supposedly did not consult with either allies or international organizations, as he rammed through democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush’s “my way or the hi (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
At the WSJ's CEO Council panel on education, AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson says improving edcation should include appropriate measures to manage teachers' performance, including the power to hire and fire, and compensation to recruit and retain the best talent.
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washingtonpost.com - Metro:
A gruesome British public service video that portrays a fatal accident caused by a texting teenage driver has been the talk of Facebook and other places where young Americans congregate, but a new study suggests it hasn't done much to change their habits.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle proposed a plan Sunday to end the state's hotly disputed teacher furloughs starting in January, using a rainy day budget fund and converting planning days for teachers into regular classroom time to cancel a 10 percent reduction in school days.Lingle unveiled her plan at a news confe (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
The announcement last year that the NEA was establishing an annual opera honors seemed a mixed blessing. Was awarding famous artists the best use the federal agency could make of its limited funds? But the second annual NEA Opera Honors , officially bestowed Saturday night in a ceremony at the...
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National Review Online:
Re-canvassed votes in upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District foreshadow the second coming of third-party candidate Doug Hoffman. As Mark Weiner of the Syracuse Post-Standard reported Thursday morning, Conservative nominee Hoffman’s 5,335-vote deficit behind Democrat Bill Owens has shrunk to just 3,026 after Elec (Read More)