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Guidance counselors' weak spots: Financial aid, potential private school bias
September 6, 2010I love high school counselors. For an education writer like me, guidance counselors have been wonderful sources of information.
D.C. schools' performance should not be measured by focusing on achievement gap
September 6, 2010The D.C. mayoral race is deeply split on most issues, but everyone agrees on one thing: We must reduce the achievement gap between minority and white students. It is too bad, then, that the gap is such a mindless measure of school progress.
Transfer of D.C. teacher Erich Martel seems like administrators' revenge
September 6, 2010My nominee for most effective whistleblower in the D.C. school system, Erich Martel, has finally gone too far in the eyes of some school administrators.
Obama must stick to his guns on education
September 3, 2010It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"
Award-winning teachers dole out advice on fixing public schools
September 1, 2010What if students attended school all year? One Wisconsin teacher thinks that could be a way to improve student grades and fix the nation's public school system.
Alabama schools turn to bank loans to operate
September 1, 2010Alabama schools have been having a rough time of it, and it only looks like it's going to get rougher. The Cotton State recently came in last place in the federal Department of Education's Race to the Top grant competition. And a steadfast global recession combined with the Gulf Coast oil spill this summer have put a severe strain on the state's tax receipts, the primary source of revenue for Alabama's education system, forcing several school systems to take out private loans just to make it through the year.
College offers far more than a career path
August 26, 2010My favorite teacher, Patrick Welsh, wrote an intriguing essay for USA Today about what he considers an overabundance of high school students going on to college. The same sentiments were expressed in a well-phrased letter from Eugene Morgan of Wheaton, published on The Post's editorial page June 20.
College offers far more than a career path
August 26, 2010My favorite teacher, Patrick Welsh, wrote an intriguing essay for USA Today about what he considers an overabundance of high school students going on to college. The same sentiments were expressed in a well-phrased letter from Eugene Morgan of Wheaton, published on The Post's editorial page June 20.
Report: Classroom shortage hurts East Jerusalem children
August 25, 2010Palestinian children in East Jerusalem are being put at a disadvantage because of a dire shortage of classrooms in the east side of the city, according to a report published Tuesday by two Israeli human rights groups.
Democratic primary could determine fate of D.C. schools, for better or worse
August 23, 2010School opens today in the District. For the next three weeks, Americans who care about the future of urban schools will watch the city closely.
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