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Arne Duncan: College completion–not simply access–critical to nation’s future

December 7, 2022November 17, 2022 by Laura Ascione

College completion remains one of higher education's biggest challenges--and one that must be solved

Making higher education the norm for everyone in the nation—and ensuring that people have not just access to higher education, but also the support to complete that education—is…

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Nope! Why adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning

July 17, 2017July 12, 2017 by Hilary Scharton

We all know that changes in public education move slowly, but there’s one specific educational dilemma we’ve been mired in for decades, with varying levels of rhetoric and…

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What is Obama’s K-12 education legacy?

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 by Laura Ascione Devaney and Meris Stansbury

Common Core, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—just a few top-down, often-controversial, metrics-heavy K-12 reform initiatives favored by the Obama Administration that seemed…

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Education Department tries to ease testing worries

August 26, 2014 by From staff and wire reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Aug. 21 said that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers' performance.

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How the Common Core became education’s biggest bogeyman

January 10, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

Shortly before Thanksgiving, Arne Duncan made a glib remark about the Common Core that quickly blew up, the Huffington Post reports.

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Duncan: U.S. failing ‘core responsibilities’ on education

October 1, 2013 by ESchool News Staff

[Editor’s note: In a Sept. 30 speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged education stakeholders to move “beyond the Beltway Bubble”…

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Why Common Core tests won’t be what Arne Duncan promised

April 3, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

On Sept. 2, 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave a speech called “Beyond The Bubble Tests: The Next Generation of Assessments.” Duncan was referring to standardized tests that…

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ED considering district-by-district NCLB waivers

February 22, 2013 by From wire service reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is talking with individual school districts about how to free them from unworkable parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law, signaling he…

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Open letter to Arne Duncan from Chicago teachers

February 15, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

A coalition of teachers from public and private schools — including the school that Education Secretary Arne Duncan attended as a child and where President Obama’s daughters were…

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Duncan: Hard to teach kids scared of being killed

January 18, 2013 by From wire service reports

Too many students worry more about being killed by a gun than learning in the classroom, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Jan. 17, as he cautioned that…

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Education chief wants textbooks to go digital

November 20, 2012October 3, 2012 by From wire service reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Oct. 2 called for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. "Over the next…

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Nearly 900 districts to apply for Race to the Top funding

September 4, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Nearly 900 school districts across the nation intend to apply for a slice of close to $400 million in grants that the U.S. Education Department will distribute in…

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Feds’ new anti-bullying campaign targets parents

August 7, 2012 by From wire service reports

Parents are urged to teach their kids to speak up if they witness school bullying in new ads that target an issue that top Obama administration officials vow…

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Duncan discusses education reform, back-to-school changes

August 6, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

A more well-rounded curriculum with less focus on a single test. Higher academic standards and more difficult classwork. Continued cuts to extracurricular and other activities because of the…

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Duncan: Cuts to education would ‘jeopardize’ nation’s ability to compete

July 27, 2012July 26, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Services would have to be slashed for more than 1.8 million disadvantaged students and thousands of teachers and aides would lose their jobs if automatic, across-the-board cuts to…

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Feds launch new online tool to help students manage loan debt

July 17, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The U.S. Department of Education has released a new interactive loan counseling tool to provide students with financial management basics, like information about their current loan debt and…

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Could NCLB waivers offer a roadmap to reauthorization?

July 9, 2012 by From wire service reports

Granting states waivers from the most stringent requirements of NCLB has brought a level of creativity to education reform that was unexpected when the Obama administration opened the…

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Feds float guidelines for school-based Race to the Top grants

May 22, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Following a wave of state education reforms spurred by its Race to the Top competition, the federal Education Department (ED) said May 22 that individual school districts will…

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Opinion: Two important ways Arne Duncan showed teachers true appreciation

May 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

My morning started with a free bagel. It wasn't much -- no five-figure bonus or anything like that -- but I'm a teacher. It's the thought that counts.…

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White House makes ‘Digital Promise’ to schools

November 5, 2013September 17, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

A nonprofit start-up funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) will quickly evaluate which educational technologies are worth the investment – and which ones aren’t…

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Readers: Here’s how we’d change ESEA

July 11, 2011July 8, 2011 by From staff reports

With Education Secretary Arne Duncan warning Congress that he'll take matters into his own hands if lawmakers this year fail to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act…

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Education Secretary Duncan responds to eSchool News readers

July 5, 2011July 1, 2011 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Recently, we asked eSchool News readers, via our daily newsletter, ‘What’s one question you’d like to ask U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan?’—and Sec. Duncan answered.

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Are new ED rules an ‘unconditional surrender’ to for-profit colleges?

June 3, 2011June 3, 2011 by Denny Carter

Some of the country’s largest online education programs will have to comply with federal regulations far less stringent than once thought after the U.S. Education Department (ED) unveiled…

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New online-learning rule could have worst impact on small states

March 28, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Colleges with online programs might withdraw from states, mostly in the northeast, that have small populations and stringent requirements for distance education courses when the Education Department’s “state…

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U.S. school chief chides Wake school policy

January 17, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

According to the News Observer, the turmoil over Wake County schools reached the top of the federal Department of Education Friday, as Education Secretary Arne Duncan criticized Wake's…

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New grant program seeks solutions to toughest classroom challenges

October 29, 2010September 8, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The U.S. Department of Education has partnered with the nation’s largest teachers union and its charitable foundation to launch a grant program encouraging public school educators to identify…

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States given millions for new assessments

February 28, 2013September 2, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Sept. 2 announced the recipients of millions of dollars in federal grants to provide new state assessment systems to test students’ 21st-century skills.…

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ACT results show slight increase in college, career readiness

August 19, 2010August 18, 2010 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

Only 24 percent of 2010 high school graduates who took the ACT met or surpassed all four of the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, and while there is much…

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Education Department to boost anti-fraud efforts

August 17, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The federal government will hire more investigators to prevent fraud by for-profit colleges in such areas as student financial aid, Reuters reports.

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Duncan: School bullying now a top federal priority

August 12, 2010August 11, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Calling attention to one of education’s fastest growing problems, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Aug. 11 spoke at the nation’s first “Bullying Prevention Summit” to incite a call…

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Schools get $10 billion to save education jobs

November 18, 2010August 11, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Summoned back from summer break, the House on Aug. 10 pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police, and other…

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NBC hosting education summit in September

August 4, 2010August 3, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

NBC News is convening its own summit with education and political leaders next month to talk about ways to improve schools in light of statistics showing the U.S.…

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Proposed federal rules crack down on for-profit schools

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations July 23 that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs—including many of the nation’s largest online schools— if too many…

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Proposed federal rules crack down on for-profit schools

July 26, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations July 23 that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs—including many of the nation's largest online schools— if too many…

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Feds to create an Online Learning Registry

November 5, 2013July 22, 2010 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

In a move to help rural schools keep pace with more developed districts, the U.S. Department of Education said it will create an Online Learning Registry that will…

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Lawmakers trade broadband grants, school reforms for education jobs

July 12, 2010July 6, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Schools would get $10 billion to help them avoid teacher layoffs under a bill passed by the House. But the funding would come at a price for other…

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Feds: Make eReaders accessible to all students

November 5, 2013June 30, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The federal government will help schools and colleges using eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle to comply with laws giving students with disabilities equal access to emerging education…

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ED looks to stop misleading college recruiting

June 24, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Some of the nation’s largest online colleges could be barred from tying recruiters’ pay to the number of students they enroll if the Obama administration’s new list of…

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Educators respond to national ed-tech plan

November 5, 2013April 13, 2010 by From staff reports

While many school stakeholders say there's a lot to like in the new National Education Technology Plan, others are concerned about what they see as a fundamental conflict…

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Ed Secretary Duncan faces questions on admissions

March 25, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Revelations that President Barack Obama's top education official kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools when he ran…

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