President Obama repeated his drumbeat for student-loan relief on Friday, telling an audience of Virginia high school students that Congress must act soon to prevent a doubling of federal-loan interest rates.
Continue Reading →Virginia’s colleges and universities have quietly investigated hundreds of students, employees and others in recent years to prevent a repeat of the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007, when a student gunman left a series of increasingly disturbing warning …
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By Gerald Tirozzi, Marian Hermie, and Wayne Schmidt
Virtually everyone agrees that educators should be held accountable for student achievement, and pay for performance is often suggested as a method for …
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Kids today just love to play computer games, and the West Virginia Department of Education is tapping into that love through a website called Learn21 .
The site offers all kinds of games that help students in every grade level bru…
Alexandria, Va.
A group of states that is designing tests for the common academic standards has taken a key step to ensure that the assessments reflect students’ readiness for college-level work: It gave top higher education officials from its lea…
Alexandria, Va.
A group of states that is designing tests for the common academic standards has taken a key step to ensure that the assessments reflect students’ readiness for college-level work: It gave top higher education officials from its lea…
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Sorry K-12 fans. It looks like higher education is eating up most of the airtime this election season.
On the heels of an Associated Press article that set up a doomsday scenario—e…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech received a measure of vindication for its handling of a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 people dead when a judge ruled that federal education officials were wrong to conclude the university’s response to the tr…
Continue Reading →By Diette Courrégé
As a member of West Virginia’s state board of education, Gayle Manchin was appalled in 2008 to learn that the state had been in control of the McDowell County schools for nearly a decade, with little to show for its efforts.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech received a measure of vindication for its handling of a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 people dead when a judge ruled that federal education officials were wrong to conclude the university’s response to the tr…
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