Heartland Newspapers - Education

Families Pack Indiana Common Core Hearing

Joy Pullmann
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January 17, 2013
Hundreds of parents, grandparents, and children packed a January Indiana Senate hearing on a bill to remove the state from the Common Core, a national list detailing what K-12 students should know

Fiscal Cliff Deal Delays Necessary Education Cuts

Evelyn B. Stacey
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January 16, 2013
January’s fiscal cliff deal delayed major cuts to federal education spending—at least until March, when mandatory cuts are slated to decrease it by 8.2 percent, or $4 billion.

HHS Releases Negative Head Start Evaluation Four Years Late

Lindsey Burke
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January 15, 2013
In January, Congress voted to send an extra $100 million to Head Start, a few weeks after Department of Health and Human Services released its long-overdue evaluation of the federal preschool progr

It’s Time to Redefine Public Education—Again

Doug Tuthill
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January 12, 2013
Public education has taken many forms over the last 300 years. Early in our history, public education referred to formal instruction in public settings outside the home.

School Reform, the Texas Way

Herbert J. Walberg
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January 11, 2013
Different increases in wealth among countries are strongly linked to student achievement. But in the most recent international achievement survey, U.S.

Wisconsin Ed Dept: $20,000 for ‘Cultural Sensitivity’ Documents, Please

Joy Pullmann
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January 10, 2013
Wisconsin’s department of public instruction wants to charge taxpayers twice for the same thing: a big sum to indoctrinate teachers in “cultural sensitivity” and another $19,969 to tell how much th

Will Online Learning Undermine Liberal Bias?

Joy Pullmann
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January 10, 2013
Will the rise of online learning undermine liberalism’s control over education? Lewis Andrews thinks so.

Common Core Confusion

Joy Pullmann
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January 09, 2013
English teachers nationwide are puzzling over a math problem: How to include the right percentages of “informational text” new standards demand in their classes.
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