Education Insider: Ohio State rushed to check on students in France
As Americans were just becoming aware of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday evening, Ohio State University already was checking on its 10 students who are working and studying in France, seven of...
View ArticleIncreasing quality of textbooks to be major focus at PA/BESA Education...
(Source: The Publishers' Association) 17th November 2015 The Publishers Association ('The PA') and the British Education Suppliers Association ('BESA') today launch guidance for publishers aimed at...
View ArticleProgressivism comes home to roost at Claremont McKenna (Texas Public Policy...
(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) Spellman's demise can be traced to two seemingly unrelated incidents, both tied to Gann's leftward tilt. In March 2004, a visiting professor of psychology,...
View ArticleOver 300 BCPS Immigrant Students to Showcase Legislative Youth Agenda...
(Source: Broward County Public Schools) WHO: Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) Students, School Board Members, Superintendent Robert W. Runcie, District Administrators, Elected Officials and...
View ArticleRiverton Students To Unveil a Mural of Portland History on Nov. 20 (Portland...
(Source: Portland Public School District) Riverton Students To Unveil a Mural of Portland History on Nov. 20 Riverton Elementary School third-graders have been using art to help them learn about the...
View ArticleKidzBop star among thousands of Texas 'virtual' students (Texans for...
(Source: Texans for Education Reform) By Jason Wheeler, WFAA Reworking the biggest pop hits of the day, and turning them kid friendly has made KidzBop all the rage among the younger set. The quartet of...
View ArticleStudents from Kentucky and Texas Named Region Two Siemens Competition Winners...
(Source: Siemens Corporation) ISELIN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Months of research and preparation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields paid off for three students named...
View ArticleExxonMobil Foundation Gives Nearly $2 Million To Texas A&M (Texas A&M...
(Source: Texas A&M University) From left to right: Porter S. Garner III '79, President and CEO of The Association of Former Students; Mark Albers '79, Senior Vice President of ExxonMobil; George...
View ArticleMaharashtra to introduce textbooks in dialect for tribal students
In a bid to encourage early education among children from Maharashtra’s backward tribal communities, the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is set to introduce textbooks that...
View ArticlePresident Young Appointed To Bush School Faculty (Texas A&M University)
(Source: Texas A&M University) Michael K. Young, newly appointed president of Texas A&M University, has also been appointed to the Bush School of Government and Public Service faculty as a...
View ArticleTaking students beyond their textbooks (University of North Texas Health...
(Source: University of North Texas Health Science Center) November 17, 2015 By Jan Jarvis Photo by Jill Johnson Southern Methodist University senior Sarah Levin stared at the body before her in the...
View ArticleFederalism and school choice (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) This commentary, written by Michael Barba and Nathanael Scherer, originally appeared in Breitbart on November 18, 2015. When progressive U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleDr. Forrest Watson's amicus brief for the school finance trials (Texas Public...
(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) Dr. Forrest Watson has unique and extensive personal experience in the field of Texas education. He has served as a school superintendent for over thirty-five...
View ArticleNews of the day from across the nation, Nov. 19
The National Institutes of Health quietly ended the federal government’s long and controversial history of using chimpanzees for biomedical research. Director Francis Collins said Wednesday that 50...
View ArticleSBOE rejects proposal to fact check textbooks
The Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday narrowly voted down a proposal to have university professors fact check state-approved textbooks, an extra level of vetting some thought necessary after...
View ArticleTexas may let academics check textbooks for factual errors
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas could allow university professors to fact-check textbooks approved for statewide use, after a ninth-grade world geography book referred to African slaves as "workers." The...
View ArticleTexas board rejects letting university experts vet public school textbooks...
Texas has rejected allowing university experts to fact-check its public-school textbooks in the wake of a 9th grade world geography book mistakenly calling African slaves "workers." The...
View ArticleTexas board may vote to let academics check school textbooks
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas may vote this week on having outside experts check textbooks used in its public school classrooms for...
View ArticleTexas rejects letting academics vet public school textbooks
Click photo to enlarge Texas Board of Education Vice Chairman Thomas Ratliff, center, speaks during a meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Austin, Texas. Texas could allow university professors to...
View ArticleTexas narrowly rejects allowing academics to fact-check public school textbooks
Texas' education officials rejected allowing university experts fact-check textbooks approved for the state's 5.2 million public-school students. ......
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