Education In The News — June 2
Every weekday, I am sharing the day’s most interesting education headlines. Read about and discuss the nation’s new common core curriculum standards, Hawaii’s second application for funds and the new performance-based pay contract D.C. teachers ratified this week.
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The AP on how the new should help prepare students nationwide for college and careers.
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Hawaii submitted for $75 million in federal Race to the Top funds, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported today.
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D.C. teachers that includes additional pay for high-performance teachers, The Washington Post reported today.
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This bears repeating (I posted it in my Twitter stream yesterday) since it casts an interesting angle on the above story, The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss reported yesterday that Chicago’s teacher performance-based pay system .
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The Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi reported in May on a new high school graduate who of high school after 10th grade if it hadn’t been for a school administrator intervening.
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On the other hand, Lisa Belkin at The New York Times’ parenting blog talks about how one mother of high school. The story puts the spotlight on the traditional educational “arc” in the United States.
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