Word: educationism
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Education Secretary and Harvard graduate Arne Duncan spoke at Columbia's education school on Thursday, calling for reform at education schools across the country. With Obama and Summers avoiding Harvard, why Duncan too?
Paschal plans to practice business litigation next fall once she joins the firm that hired her. In the meantime, she will put her legal education to use for South Floridians like her family thanks to a $10,000 foreclosure-defense fellowship she received from the UM law school. The innovative...
Lingle's two-year contract with the teachers union and its 13,000 members amounts to a 7.9% pay cut. The bulk of the union's teachers will have 17 furlough days a year, giving Hawaii the shortest school year in the nation. "It's completely Draconian," says Vernadette Gonzalez...
Fears about how the furlough will affect learning prompted two lawsuits in federal court earlier in the week. Attorneys representing special education students sought to block the furloughs but U.S. District Judge David Ezra denied their motions, saying on Thursday that the last-minute decision would create chaos. But Ezra...
State Rep. Lyla Berg, a former public school principal in Hawaii, said union, state education officials and the governor do not appear motivated to find another solution to the furloughs. At a recent briefing on the subject with the state lawmakers, it seemed that education and union officials were not...