Education News

Every Monday we publish a New York Times photo without a caption, headline or other information about its origins. Join the conversation by posting about what you see, and why.    

Rather than recommend majors of the future, here are four activities to help develop the skills necessary to succeed in the work force of tomorrow. If you focus on these activities, the majors won’t matter as much.    

A petition in support of "parent trigger" legislation in Florida spearheaded by StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, apparently has numerous signatures on it from people who say they didn't sign it.

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Who challenged a tradition in how proms had been conducted in a rural Georgia county?    

Can you calculate a specific measurement of a boxing ring?    

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This word has appeared in 111 New York Times article in the past year.    

State funding for preschool across the country dropped last school year after a decade of growth, tapping the brakes on the quality and reach of programs as President Obama has called for a massive expansion of early childhood education, according to a national survey scheduled for release Monday.

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An inaugural class of about 40 female inmates at an alternative high school at Rikers participated in Tribeca Teaches, a program that instructs young people in schools how to make movies.    

With $3.25 million from two foundations, the Norman Lear Center will create a “global hub” for people who want to measure the actual impact of media.    

Potomac High School’s principal, Robynne Prince, said graduating senior Victoria Mason was so confident of becoming a Gates Millennium Scholar that she turned down another scholarship that would have paid her four-year college tuition.

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Kay Frazier knows her grandson, a third-grader, struggles in reading. That’s why she has always signed him up for summer school in the District, figuring he needs the extra help.

But this year, for the first time, D.C. public schools’ summer program is enrolling students by invitation only. And Frazier’s grandson wasn’t invited.

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President Obama has a big problem in his second term in terms of education policy: his first term.

Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, pushed hard in their first term to have a major impact on changing public schools with a larger-than-ever federal role in school policy issues that affected every single classroom in the country. And they did, with rare bipartisan support.

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International schools are increasingly relying on more sophisticated technology and large-scale job fairs to make choices about hiring.    

State senators passed a bill to change how school districts and courts handle truancy, which some say are unfair and overly punitive.    

Some may see a proposal by Texas legislators to change the requirements for a high school diploma as a “dumbing down.”    

Almost every time someone offered support for Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s school takeover proposal during recent legislative hearings, members of the Board of Education bristled at the notion that the school system was somehow troubled.

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Mary Ann Hall was once among the most rich, popular and powerful women in Civil War Washington. Before she died in 1886 at age 71, she had garnered a nationwide reputation for integrity, charm, and utmost discretion.

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The District sends more money per student to its traditional schools than to its charter schools, charter officials and advocates told the D.C. Council on Friday, renewing what has become an annual plea for equitable funding.

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Interviews with teachers by Reader's Digest yielded a list of more than 30 things that teachers think but would not tell their students' parents. Here are a dozen of them, and you can find the rest here.

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