Obama: Educate for high-tech economy
High schools should put “our kids on a path to a good job,” said President Obama in the State of the Union speech. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with...
View ArticlePre-k for all?
Education reform has proven unpopular with teachers’ unions, a key Democratic constituency, so President Obama’s second-term education agenda will focus on preschool and college aid, writes Joy...
View ArticleCollege Scorecard earns ‘meh’ rating
President Obama’s new College Scorecard site, which helps students and parents evaluate a college’s cost, graduation rate and default risk, is nothing new, say critics. Some of the data is old, most...
View ArticleObama’s universal pre-k isn’t universal
President Obama’s pledged “to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America” in the State of the Union speech. His “early learning” plan doesn’t do that, which is a good thing. Obama...
View ArticleHigh school in a war zone
President Obama condemned the wave of violence in Chicago in a speech at Hyde Park Career Academy. He said “the solution is not only more gun laws, but community intervention and economic opportunity...
View ArticleProfessor may lose job for Obama vote pledge
A math professor who told students to sign pledges to vote for President Obama’s re-election should be fired, President James Richey advised the Brevard Community College Board of Trustees. Sharon...
View ArticlePrivate and public parents
Ed reformer Michelle Rhee, who described herself as a “public school parent,” is also a private school parent: One of her two daughters, who live with her ex-husband in Tennessee, goes to private...
View ArticleWhy there’s a Common Core backlash
In response to a conservative defense of Common Core Standards, Heritage fellow Lindsey M. Burke describes the conservative backlash on National Review Online. The federal government has spent billions...
View ArticleObama plan uncaps student loan rates
Student groups aren’t happy with President Obama’s proposed change to student loan interest rates. Linking the rate to the government’s cost of borrowing means today’s college students would pay very...
View ArticlePreschool for all — or for the poor?
President Obama wants to spend $75 billion over 10 years on Preschool for All, partnering with states to provide “high-quality” preschool to 4-year-olds from families under 200 percent of the poverty...
View ArticleEd schools don’t ‘train’ teachers
Ed schools don’t train teachers, writes Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, in Education Next. “Training” is taboo. Instead, teacher educators believe it’s their job to...
View ArticleCCs try to double graduation numbers
Community college leaders are trying to double the number of graduates by 2020 to meet President Obama’s goals. “Many people working in community colleges still do not understand how abysmal our...
View ArticleSelling Obama’s ‘preschool for all’
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is trying to persuade Republican governors to persuade Republicans in Congress to back $75 billion in new tobacco taxes to fund President Obama’s “preschool for all”...
View ArticleNew technology, same old teaching
Schools aren’t getting much bang for millions of technology bucks, concludes the Center for American Progress. Education leaders buy the latest technology — whiteboards, laptops, e-readers — without...
View ArticleGOP-only No Child rewrite passes House
House Republicans have passed a No Child Left Behind revision called the Student Success Act — with no Democratic support, reports Education Week. Schools would have to test students and report scores...
View ArticleObama vows college cost controls
President Obama vowed to “shake up” higher education and “tackle rising costs,” in a speech on the economy that stressed college affordability for middle-class families. A bipartisan student loan bill...
View ArticleObama (re)proposes job training fund
Funding community college job training and expanding college-industry manufacturing institutes will create “middle-class jobs,” President Obama said in a speech at an Amazon warehouse in Chattanooga....
View ArticlePreschool won’t close achievement gap
President Obama’s $75 billion preschool proposal won’t close the achievement gap, predict Brookings scholars. Sound research doesn’t show preschool makes much difference, write Russ Whitehurst and...
View ArticleMinority gains ended in Obama era
Racial/ethnic achievement gaps were narrowing, till the Obama administration waived and weakened No Child Left Behind, writes Paul Peterson, who directs Harvard’s program on Education Policy and...
View ArticleHow to ‘shake up’ higher ed
If President Obama really wants to “shake up” higher education, he should start by scaling back student loans, writes economist Richard Vedder. In addition, colleges should share the costs of high...
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