News from The Guardian: ‘Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.’ Photograph: Alamy The education spokespeople of the three main parties have said (admitted? confessed? boasted?) that they would be OK with sending their children to private schools. Anyone trying to explain to a [...]

News from The Union of Grass Valley: Common Core testing begins soon and I, a parent of three children in the Nevada City School District, am ever so frustrated with the over complicated math and one-sided history and science curriculum, that so obviously pushes the liberal agenda. Our many parental concerns and meetings were glossed [...]

Local boards to encourage more college attendanceNews from Durham Herald Sun: Dec. 27, 2014 @ 04:18 PM DURHAM — At a recent joint meeting of the school board and county commissioners, Commissioner Chairman Michael Page wondered if more could be done to encourage students who are not considered academic stars to attend college. Page, who [...]

News from Minnesota Public Radio News: Listen NEA president on state of No Child Left Behind 13min 57sec Lily Eskelsen Garcia: President, NEA The nation’s main education law, which for more than a decade has been known as N……………. continues on Minnesota Public Radio News >>> Read the full article . Related News: . News [...]

News from U.S. News & World Report: Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony in January during a Senate education committee hearing on No Child Left Behind. The committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to update the education law. Clearing its first big hurdle, a bipartisan bill to overhaul the long-outdated No Child [...]

News from Telegraph.co.uk: However, he said, some parents are changing from “sensible” and “moderate” people, who have faith in their schools and teachers, and are “turning into dervishes ready to battle with anything and anyone on behalf of ‘their’ child? “What has made some parents put their own child at the centre of the universe [...]

News from U.S. News & World Report: Give them the skills they need to succeed. In debates about education, early childhood often comes across as K-12’s overlooked little sibling. With no guaranteed access for children and families, lower resource levels and lower quality standards for many programs, the early childhood field lacks many things that [...]

News from ABC Online: By Gail Burke Updated April 11, 2015 13:35:49 Education Queensland has confirmed its director of child safety, Brett Anthony O’Connor, is facing child sex charges. Police allege O’Connor sexually and indecently assaulted two boys at schools at Hunters Hill and Campbelltown in New South Wales between 1987 and 1989. Both matters [...]

News from Norwich Bulletin: The Federal government first passed legislation governing special education in 1975. That law has now become the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and guarantees a “a free appropriate public education” to all children with disabilities. While federal law sets the basis for special education in every public school in the country, [...]

News from MarketWatch: MCLEAN, Va., April 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Science Applications International Corp. SAIC, -0.55% announced today at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Global Force Symposium that it will donate $ 175,000 to the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC). As part of SAIC’s commitment to continue support children of military families, this donation [...]