News | Video
Login | Not a member yet? Join now! | Blog
 
RSS 2.0 Grants
Recently Hot | Upcoming Stories | Hot Stories

How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 5)  
View Story

James Arnold -- Race to the Top is marketed as a “solution” for states and districts in search of reform. The catch — as with all federal money — is the cash comes with strings that will continue the emphasis on high-stakes testing and the top-down management theories that were the basis of No Child Left Behind. The U.S. Education Department wants teacher evaluations tied to student test scores regardless of how it is done, and they want it done quickly.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss james arnold pelham georgia race to the top u.s. education department | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

The Gates Push on Education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 24, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided The Washington Post with this spreadsheet of its grants since January 2008 related to elementary and secondary education. Recipients include schools, state agencies, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups and others with a stake in public education.

0 comments | Tags: bill & melinda gates foundation school reform | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 33, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.

0 comments | Tags: k-12 education mark zuckerberg newark new jersey facebook transparency | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

U.S. Faults State’s Progress on Race to the Top Goals

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 43, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

The federal Education Department, citing New York’s failure to meet the goals it promised in seeking financial aid, has put the state on a watch list.

1 comments | Tags: new york race to the top u.s. department of education teacher evaluations. arne duncan | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

States face delays in implementing Race to the Top

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 32, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

Several states that won a slice of the U.S. Department of Education's $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition have had to delay plans to implement ambitious reforms and two could possibly lose money if they don't get back on track.

1 comments | Tags: race to the top u.s. department of education new york florida hawaii | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Biola University gets $3-million grant for think tank

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 43, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

Templeton Foundation money will be used to explore Christian perspectives on various contemporary issues.

1 comments | Tags: templeton foundation biola university christian perspectives center for christian thought | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Grants in Limbo, the City Tells Principals to Hold On

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 45, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

Though the state has suspended $60 million from the federal government to pay for programs already under way at troubled schools, those schools have been told to forge ahead.

1 comments | Tags: race to the top new york city teacher evaluations school improvement grants | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Obama’s Ed Dept puts Hawaii’s Race to Top grant on high-risk status

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 46, Clicks: 5)  
View Story

Valerie Strauss -- Hawaii may be delighted that President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in his home state, but it is perhaps not so enamored with his Education Department at the moment.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss hawaii race to the top u.s. department of education teacher evaluations | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Dispute Over Evaluations Imperils Grants for Schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 49, Clicks: 5)  
View Story

Informed of an impasse in negotiations, John B. King Jr., the state’s education commissioner, said he would suspend $60 million in grants set for the city’s struggling schools.

2 comments | Tags: new york city john b. king jr. school improvement grants teacher evaluations race to the top | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

After Missing Out Last Year, 7 States to Share Almost $200 Million in Education Grants

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 56, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

Illinois received the largest grant of $42.8 million, followed by Pennsylvania with $41.3 million and New Jersey with $37.8 million.

1 comments | Tags: u.s. department of education race to the top illinois hawaii arne duncan | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

State fares poorly — again — in Race to the Top effort

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 56, Clicks: 5)  
View Story

Oklahoma has struck out for the third time in its bid for education grant money in the federal Race to the Top competition. The results of this year's contest, focusing on early childhood education, is tougher to swallow because our state is among the national leaders in that category.

1 comments | Tags: oklahoma race to the top federal education reform funds school reform early childhood education program | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Seven states win federal education competition

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 38, Clicks: 10)  
View Story

Seven states won a share of $200 million in federal "Race to the Top" money to improve K-12 education programs, the Education Department announced Thursday.

1 comments | Tags: u.s. department of education race to the top illinois arne duncan teacher evaluation | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

State finishes out of the money in Race to the Top

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 54, Clicks: 4)  
View Story

Editorial -- For the third time, Oklahoma has failed to place in the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition for federal education reform funds.

1 comments | Tags: school reform federal education reform funds race to the top oklahoma early childhood education program | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Ed Dept. chides Hawaii for use of grant dollars

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 58, Clicks: 9)  
View Story

An Education Department official on Wednesday admonished Hawaii for its "unsatisfactory" performance under a $75 million federal grant the state won last year in a high profile competition and said it was placing it under "high risk" status. That means the state is in danger of losing the money if it doesn't make improvements.

0 comments | Tags: hawaii u.s. department of education race to the top hawaii department of education neil abercrombie | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

The Promise: Two wealthy men set out to transform the lives of 59 fifth-graders

Buldog sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 21, Clicks: 5)  
View Story

A three-part series on the fate of 59 fifth-graders who were given an extraordinary gift: the promise of a college education paid for by two wealthy businessmen.

0 comments | Tags: howard university seat pleasant elementary prince george's county maryland abe pollin | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

First « Previous    Next » Last

New Stories

Top 10 Stories

Recent Comments

Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com | Not valid XHTML yet but working on it :-) | Powered by Spring Framework and Mathetude's community.

Version 0.4.2 - Best view with both eyes open. We recommend Firefox 2