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 Clearing its first big hurdle, a bipartisan bill to overhaul the long-outdated No Child [...]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 [...]
News from Nyasa Times: Malawi First Lady Gertrude Mutharika has called on COMESA member countries to put a lot of resources in supporting girl child education for the region to achieve meaningful women economic empowerment and achieve sustainable industrial development. First Lady Mutharika delivering her statement Madam Mutharika was speaking on Monday when she addressed the [...]
News from Citifmonline: Government has distributed free school uniforms, foot wears, school bags, sanitary pads and other learning materials to about 1,200 female students in the Tolon District. This is in line with government’s agenda to promote girl child education in the country. The beneficiaries were from 16 selected Junior High Schools in the Tolon [...]
News from Express.co.uk: PUBLISHED: 00:01, Tue, Mar 17, 2015 GETTY Nigel Farage believes migrants should pay for their children’s private education Migrants would instead have to pay for private education until their children qualified. The policy is explained on the Ukip website. “Immigrants must financially support themselves and their dependants for five years,” it reads. [...]
News from New York Daily News: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, March 14, 2015, 8:40 PM Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News Mary Beth Charles (right, pictured with son Harry) knew that her sons were going to attend Scholars Academy. Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News It didn’t matter to her that the school, launched [...]
