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obama and education

District Management

Obama budget threatens popular STEM education initiatives

July 24, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Ayah Idris, 14, spent two weeks of her summer isolating strawberry DNA at a Seattle cancer research center, watching heart cells pulse in a dish and learning about…
District Management

Obama’s big second-term education problem

April 29, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
President Obama has a big problem in his second term in terms of education policy: his first term, the Washington Post reports.
District Management

Obama education agenda is racist, civil rights leaders say

January 30, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The standards-based education reform movement calls school change "the civil rights issue of our time," the Huffington Post reports.
District Management

Loose ends to drive second term education agenda

November 19, 2012 by From staff and wire reports
Loose ends and thorny partisan issues that have long dogged attempts to move forward on education await the next Congress as President Barack Obama's second term begins.
District Management

Obama meets ATT, Time Warner Cable CEOs on education

July 19, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
President Barack Obama held a roundtable discussion with business leaders including Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt, AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson, and AOL Inc.…
District Management

No education agenda left behind becomes Obama hurdle as congress deadlocks

June 21, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he pledged to “fix” the No Child Left Behind federal education law and to promote rigorous standards, merit pay and…
District Management

Obama says too much testing makes education boring

March 29, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways than just exam results. Too much testing…
District Management

Obama to GOP: Don’t cut education spending

March 9, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money…
District Management

Trouble lurking ahead for Obama’s education focus

January 17, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
Signs of trouble are arising for President Barack Obama's plan to put education overhaul at the forefront of his agenda as he adjusts to the new reality of…
District Management

New challenges for Obama’s education agenda in the face of a G.O.P.-led House

December 13, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
With Republican deficit hawks taking control of the House next month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will no longer have billions of dollars to use at his discretion, reports…
District Management

With divided Congress, school reform faces a tough road ahead

November 17, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The Obama administration has pushed an ambitious education agenda in the last two years, sending $100 billion to states thorough the stimulus package and spurring reform in many…
District Management

Obama to defend education policies to critics

July 29, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
President Barack Obama is defending his administration's education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students, reports the Associated Press.
District Management

Education groups rally support for EETT

May 17, 2010May 14, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Alarmed at what they see as a potential setback in federal support for education technology, several dozen state and national ... Read more
District Management

Obama administration seeks converts to education plan

March 17, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
Facing intense resistance from teachers’ unions, the Obama administration has begun trying to persuade union leaders, teachers, and the public that its proposals for overhauling federal education policies…
District Management

Critics: Obama’s ed policies no better than Bush’s

October 29, 2010March 12, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
When it comes to education policy, President Obama is repeating the most grievous errors of his predecessor, charge a trio of venerable education policy analysts, including one—Diane Ravitch—best…

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