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D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways

February 14, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Although the main purpose of the District's new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates…

When whacking kids at school is legal

February 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Everyone is rightly horrified about the case of a first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school who was just charged with several counts of assault after being…

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HP, Dell computers delayed because of Intel flaw

November 5, 2013February 3, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. are warning that some of their new computers are affected by a technical flaw in an Intel Corp. chip, the Washington Post reports.

Netflix CEO wades into net neutrality debates

January 28, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Netflix, the DVD mail-order-company-turned-online-video-giant, is firing back at cable and telecom firms as it weighs in on an increasingly thorny debate over net neutrality, the Washington Post reports.

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Bill would let ‘sexting’ NJ teens avoid charges

January 25, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

New Jersey teenagers caught texting or posting sexually explicit photos online could avoid prosecution under a measure that would give first-time offenders the chance to complete a diversionary…

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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…

Facebook to start sharing AMBER Alerts

January 13, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice and the Virginia State Police to make it easier to spread…

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Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy

January 12, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And…

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How to be taken seriously as a reformer (don’t be an educator)

January 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

In the current upside-down world of education policy, there's one foolproof strategy for being taken seriously as a reformer: Make sure you're not an educator, says Gregory Michie,…

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Web helps admissions officials demystify application process

January 7, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Admissions officials at many colleges are trying to fight the Hollywood version of the college application process: A panel of ancient white guys in suits sitting in a…

Montgomery schools’ decision to slow pace of math courses divides parents

December 23, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Last month, Maryland's largest school system announced that it would significantly curtail its practice of pushing large numbers of elementary and middle school students to skip grade levels…

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Obama’s deputy CTO leaves to launch start-ups

December 23, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Andrew McLaughlin, the nation's deputy chief technology officer, said Wednesday he is resigning his post to launch two start-ups aimed at technology development in communities in the United…

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EEOC suing Kaplan over alleged racial discrimination

December 22, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday sued The Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan Higher Education unit, alleging that it discriminated against black job applicants by refusing to hire…

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A ‘highly qualified’ gift from Congress to Teach for America

December 22, 2010December 21, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Should teachers still in training programs be considered “highly qualified” to teach kids? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that they aren’t, but…

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Where education reform is heading: From extreme to extremum

December 14, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor-elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding…

Gay and lesbian teens are punished more at school, by police, study says

December 7, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Gay and lesbian teens in the United States are about 40 percent more likely than their straight peers to be punished by schools, police and the courts, according…

Fairfax school experiments with letting cheating students retake tests

November 18, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

The Fairfax County high school that asked teachers to all but banish F's from its recent report cards has been experimenting with an approach that would allow students…

Google Voice app finally approved for iPhone

November 5, 2013November 17, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Google Inc.'s Voice calling application has won approval to be on the iPhone after more than a year of haggling with Apple Inc., reports the Washington Post.

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‘Highly effective’ teachers are spread unevenly across District

November 15, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

The District's most affluent ward has more than four times as many "highly effective" public schoolteachers as its poorest, underscoring a problem endemic to urban school systems: Their…

Battling over the future of TV

November 5, 2013November 10, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Programming battles are highlighting the frantic race among a handful of powerful companies to capture the eyeballs of people who are beginning to rethink the way they watch…

Teens are still reading for fun, say media specialists

November 1, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Teens read for pleasure, even in the digital age, reports the Washington Post.

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Lawmaker calls for investigation of College tuition policy

October 28, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

A Republican Maryland lawmaker urged a criminal investigation of Montgomery College on Wednesday, challenging the school's longtime practice of giving resident tuition discounts to illegal immigrants, reports the…

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School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line

October 13, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Hide the chocolate milk behind the plain milk. Get those apples and oranges out of stainless steel bins and into pretty baskets. Cash only for desserts. These subtle…

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Students sing the stories they see in the news

October 11, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Middle school is an unlikely launching pad to musical superstardom, but a group of politically aware students at Charles Carroll Middle School might have rocketed ahead of the…

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Fighting Obama education plans, colleges boost lobbying

August 19, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Academia might be a bastion of liberal thought, but in the past two years, the higher-education industry often has lined up opposite the White House and congressional Democrats—and…

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More than $300 million cut from federal broadband grants

August 13, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The new legislation that President Obama signed this week to stave jobs losses among teachers will cut $302 million in federal broadband grants to help pay for the…

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Civil rights groups skewer Obama education policy

July 26, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

It is most politely written, but a 17-page framework for education reform being released July 26 by a coalition of civil rights groups amounts to a thrashing of…

Harvard profs dropping final exams

July 20, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Final exams are probably not anybody’s primary concern at the moment, but it is worth noting that the July-August edition of Harvard Magazine reports that many Harvard professors…

Students take photos of Earth’s curvature with help from iPad

July 15, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

At the Potomac School in McLean, Va., this past school year, 13 seventh- and eighth-graders signed up for a biweekly science elective that proposed this challenge, reports the…

Pew study: The web is redefining our relationships, reputations

July 7, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Most people agree that the internet has and will continue to be positive for social relations. But according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, it’s also…

Some question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement

November 5, 2013June 18, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Under enormous pressure to reform, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year on devices that technology companies promise can raise student performance.

Global firm to pay Montgomery, Md., schools millions for elementary curriculum

June 11, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Montgomery County Public Schools could soon become a global brand, the Washington Post reports.

FCC chairman expected to leave broadband services deregulated

November 5, 2013May 3, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has indicated he wants to keep broadband services deregulated, reports the Washington Post.

Report examines violent attacks on U.S. college campuses

April 20, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

A report by federal law enforcement officers, released last week on the third anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, offers the first comprehensive analysis of violent attacks carried…

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News sites rethink anonymous online comments

April 12, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Web sites that once embraced anonymous comments are revising their policies to hold users more accountable for what they say online, reports the New York Times.

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Gloves off, Microsoft pushes antitrust review of Google

March 1, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Microsoft has confirmed it had a hand in helping bring about a European antitrust investigation of its web competitor, Google, The Washington Post reports.

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Education secretary pushes to revise student loan practices

February 10, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday urged the Senate to overhaul student lending, asserting that the banking industry has had "a free ride from taxpayers for too long"…

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