January 27th, 2012
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning it’s time to hike teacher salaries, up to $150,000 annually if possible. (more)
January 18th, 2012
The White House has produced a new campaign-style video highlighting Vice President Joe Biden’s low-key education policy pitches in three swing states. (more)
December 12th, 2011
Top White House officials are trying to transmute three disastrous, government-created crises into an education platform for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. (more)
November 15th, 2011
Whenever the president or members of Congress do things that people don’t like, they’re accused of acting like children. As a former child, I am offended by this statement. In kindergarten, if my teacher had ever accused our class of acting like a bunch of members of Congress, we would have burst out in tears. (more)
October 25th, 2011
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told The Daily Caller on Monday that having children in school during the summer months is “the right thing to do” to compete with countries like China and India. (more)
October 4th, 2011
When is 400,000 not 400,000? (more)
September 15th, 2011
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio wrote to Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday, criticizing an Obama administration plan to grant No Child Left Behind waivers to states that adopt national standards backed by the administration.“I am concerned,” Rubio’s letter says, “that the administration’s requirements for granting a waiver from NCLB would entail states having to adopt a federally-approved ‘college and career ready’ curriculum: either the national Common Core standards, or another federally-approved equivalent.” According to Rubio, the practice of granting conditional waivers is “detrimental to our country’s shared goal of educational success for every student.” And, he claims, it’s also against federal law. (more)
July 6th, 2011
Pushing back against Obama administration efforts to help states sidestep some provisions of No Child Left Behind, Republicans said this week that a new report questions whether the Education Department has the authority to offer states waivers from parts of the law. (more)
June 27th, 2011
WASHINGTON — Supporters of the DREAM Act say now is the time to pass legislation providing children of illegal immigrants American citizenship. But it’s not likely the bill will get any traction in the Republican-controlled House. (more)
June 17th, 2011
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is teaching students a lesson: how to get your way no matter what the rules are. (more)
June 2nd, 2011
Department of Education Sec. Arne Duncan is finalizing a controversial new regulation on for-profit, or “career,” colleges, issuing final rules Wednesday that condition federal aid to students of the schools to numeric thresholds on how much debt they incur or how quickly they repay the loans after attending. (more)
April 14th, 2011
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is considering whether to grant waivers to No Child Left Behind Act provisions that fund for after-school tutoring, which some education advocates say would harm students in already failing schools but others support as a smarter way to use federal funds. (more)
March 31st, 2011
As politicians from both parties try to pass the buck on the looming budget crisis, Democrats and Republicans had no problems passing the ball during Wednesday’s Home Court charity basketball game. (more)
March 17th, 2011
A key watchdog group issued a legal filing Thursday demanding e-mails and other documents from Education Department Sec. Arne Duncan and his top aides under the Freedom of Information Act relating to the influence of Wall Street short sellers on a controversial new regulation governing for-profit or “career” colleges. (more)
March 10th, 2011
Before a jury found Manuel Asensio had illegally defamed a company whose demise he would profit from, and before securities regulators barred him from employment in the banking industry for the rest of his life, he used to take down companies with savage reports under the banner of his investment bank, Asensio & Company. (more)
March 3rd, 2011
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn blasted the Education Department Wednesday for what he called “very significant inappropriate behavior in tipping hedge funds on short selling private education” and called on a key Senate panel to investigate the matter. (more)
March 1st, 2011
A key watchdog group urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday to investigate a partnership between noted Wall Street short-seller Steven Eisman and the Obama administration regarding burdensome new regulations on the for-profit education sector. (more)
December 21st, 2010
“Facts are stubborn things, and whatever our wishes, our indications, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” — John Adams, second President of the United States (more)
December 8th, 2010
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released results Tuesday of a study that ranks international students in reading, science and math. Their release came as a blow to the United States. (more)
December 7th, 2010
Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts, raising concern that the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy. (more)
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