You’ve been invited to dinner with six total strangers. Would you go?
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The deposit is paid. Now, what’s college REALLY like?
For applicants and incoming freshmen, college life sits all shiny, up on a hill, but tweets from outgoing seniors show a different perspective.
Don’t overlook, as I did, the nation’s largest college readiness program
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Archery takes flight in D.C. Public Schools
Students from several schools, including Lafayette and Smothers, are headed to a national competition.
Lessons in a trash can: Teaching kids how to manage Earth’s resources
A project at a high-needs, high-achieving middle school in Clarke County, Georgia, is helping students learn how to adapt to environmental change. The lessons are being taught in the kitchen, garden, and at the trash can.
It’s National Charter Schools Week. Are charters really worth celebrating?
There’s a lot of hype about charters. Why they don’t live up to it.
Fairfax school board approves transgender protections
The school board updated a non-discrimination policy to include gender identity.
Some high school students in D.C. could graduate without a diploma
State Board poised to pass emergency regulations so Hospitality High students can earn a state diploma.
Here’s how broke college students are helping Nepal recover from disaster
William & Mary students join volunteers worldwide to create real-time maps of earthquake damage and aid efforts.
Schools of Opportunity: the winner high schools
Results of a pilot initiative to identify and recognize public high schools that seek to close opportunity gaps through practices “that build on students’ strengths” — not by inundating them with tests and not by evaluating them with scores.
Pearson responds to criticism about its standardized tests
‘As a company, Pearson wants to do a better job of showing that we’re listening to students, teachers and parents’ concerns.’
You finally selected a college, don’t start worrying about your major
We shouldn’t be asking 18-year-olds to make a decision about what they want to do for the rest of their lives before they step foot on campus.
Prosecutors find no criminal activity at school for special education students
Lengthy investigation of practices at Rock Terrace School in Montgomery County ends with no charges.
Ed tech company folds after receiving millions in Race to the Top funds
Thinkgate LLC went out of business, raising concerns about the security of student data in several states.
For transgender teens and teachers, acceptance could be two words away
Northern Virginia school administration will vote on a proposal to protect transgender students.
Clean-up crews set to work through night at Silver Spring school
Flora Singer Elementary School was closed Wednesday, and hopes to reopen on Thursday.
Cabinet secretaries sit down for straight talk with Baltimore students
In a closed-door session, Duncan and Perez meet with students, community leaders at Frederick Douglass High.
Tuition is going up at Maryland’s public universities
Tuition will rise 5 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year after Board of Regents approves an increase
U-Va. community crowd-sourcing funds for dean’s possible Rolling Stone lawsuit
Nicole Eramo has said that the retracted magazine story attacked her life’s work and forever damaged her reputation.
Civil rights groups blast parents opting their kids out of high-stakes tests. Why they are wrong.
Civil rights groups release a statement criticizing the movement against high-stakes testings. An education advocacy group release a response, saying the civil rights groups are wrong. Read them both.
You’ve been invited to dinner with six total strangers. Would you go?
The answer is yes for the hundreds at Georgetown University who want in on a secretive dinner club.
Inequality in the U.S. is excessive, and community college might be the solution
COLUMN: The best way to fix inequality might just be with the nation’s vast network of community colleges. But we also have to fix them, too.
Teacher: I don’t care about my students’ grades. This is far more important.
The second in a series by teachers about the value of allowing students to struggle in class: ‘Students have to know that you’re going to catch them before they’re willing to take a leap. They have to struggle to learn something meaningful, and learning to overcome struggle is the most valuable thing I can teach them.’
Discrimination lawsuit against Va. principal dismissed
Three educators sued the principal of Bailey’s Elementary School alleging racial and gender bias.
Jesse Matthew to face capital murder charges in U-Va. sophomore’s death
Matthew allegedly abducted, killed Hannah Graham and now could get the death penalty if convicted.
Why civil rights groups say parents who opt out of tests are hurting kids
The backlash against standardized tests makes it impossible to measure student achievement gaps, they say.
Most states lacked expertise to improve worst schools
Despite more than $3 billion in federal grants to turn around the worst schools, most states struggled.
Analysis: Harvard faculty, researchers donated overwhelming to Democrats
Here’s what the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, found.