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Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school is selling grades. A $20 donation to Rosewood Middle School will get a student 20 test points - 10 extra points on two tests of the student's choosing. That could raise a B to an A, or a failing grade to a D.

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On January 8, 2002, President George Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a 1,100-page, bipartisan overhaul of the largest federal education aid program. Originally launched in 1965 as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it has been revised and renamed periodically ever since. ESEA’s purpose was to provide extra money for schools educating low-income students. The Bush version, ...

The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said another $11.5 billion is available to states, which have already received more than $67 billion. Duncan said the administration wanted to distribute most of the money quickly to bolster state budgets that have been ravaged by the ...

We've all got them -- those ideas that we know, just know, would make a fortune if we could get them to a store shelf. Now, some University of Michigan students are hoping to tap into that genius. MPowered Entrepreneurship is challenging students to make their pitches -- whether for ideas they've mulled for years or an unexpected flash of brilliance. ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, and the White House declared the nation on track to meet the president's goal of 3.5 million by the end of next year. New job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, nonprofit groups and universities were released, showing ...

by WTOP Did the D.C. schools chancellor break the law when she fired hundreds of teachers earlier this month? That's what D.C. Council members are saying after revelations during a very heated council hearing Thursday afternoon. Michelle Rhee told the D.C. City Council she ignored their mandate to cut funds from next year's summer school program and instead fired hundreds of ...

Teachers who telephone, e-mail or text their students can get in trouble in Louisiana and in some districts, reports Education Week. In an attempt to prevent sexual exploitation, districts are making it harder for school employees to contact students one on one. By Nov. 15, Louisiana teachers are supposed to document every electronic interaction with a student using “a nonschool-issued device, ...

Frank McBryde says there are plenty of parallels between serving in the U.S. military and teaching. "You're not going to become rich, you need loyalty, and you need to be dedicated to a task," said McBryde, 54. After a 23-year career in the Navy and retiring as a senior chief operations specialist, McBryde is now teaching math to sixth-, seventh- and ...

PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — A 42-year-old man accused of holding a New York middle school principal hostage at gunpoint has told a judge that he needs psychiatric care. When told at his arraignment Tuesday that he's going to jail without bail on a kidnapping charge, Christopher Craft Sr. said he needs treatment for depression and shouldn't be locked up. Craft was ...

Social engineers just can't help themselves when it comes to keeping their hands off your kids. Their latest plan is to base admissions to Chicago's most preferred public schools to a large degree on "socioeconomic" factors, such as the percentage of people who own homes in your neighborhood. As dumbfounding as this might seem, it's not all that surprising for an ...

It's called the "turkey drop" -- when first-year college students break up with their high school sweethearts over the Thanksgiving holiday. But there's a risk that freshmen might break up with their college, too. The turkey drop is just one of the precipitating factors. Homesickness, roommate conflicts, academic pressures, difficulty forming new friendships -- any of them can cause college freshmen ...

The United States spends more money than any other country, and its elite institutions are the world's best. But overall the system is wasteful, fails too many — and is falling behind other countries. No, the topic isn't health care — it's higher education. The latest stinging report came last week from a state colleges group arguing the United States isn't ...

It's relatively small by Washington standards, but the Obama administration's $4.35 billion carrot for schools is already leading states to adopt a handful of key reforms. Tucked into the $110 billion federal stimulus slated for education, a comparatively tiny grant known as the Race to the Top requires that states that want the money must commit to closing historic achievement gaps ...

The Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, wants to see “revolutionary” changes made to teacher training programs. How do you think teachers should be trained?

We are in the midst of a paradox in math education. As more states strive to improve math curricula and raise standardized test scores, more students show up to college unprepared for college-level math. In Maryland, 49 percent of high school graduates take noncredit remedial math courses in college, before they can take math courses for credit. In many cases, incoming ...

Question: My kindergartner brought home a questionnaire that asks: Do you like your class? Do you have friends in your class? Does your teacher treat you like you want to be treated? Does your teacher help you learn and do new things? I'm supposed to read him the questions, which he then answers by coloring in a face with a smile, ...

Sens. John McCain and Michael Bennet want to put more battlefield veterans in classrooms as teachers, teaming up as a seasoned senator with military expertise and a freshman lawmaker who was superintendent of Denver Public Schools. But in co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill known as Troops to Teachers, McCain, R-Ariz., is also handing Bennet, D-Colo., a potential campaign plum, an unusual move ...

The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day. The federal government has urged schools to close because of the swine flu only as a last resort. But schools are closing by the dozens as ...

Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven't truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted Thursday. The Obama administration said the report bolsters its effort to persuade all states to adopt the same set of tougher standards for what students should know. "States ...