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What’s the best age to start and master a new language? Are bilingual students smarter? Does knowing two languages offer advantages in learning how to read, w...
How well is America teaching its teachers? As accountability pressures on the nation’s teaching force mount, scrutiny of colleges of education is intensifying...
Today’s guest blogger is Lori Crouch, assistant director of the Education Writers Association. This post also appears on the Data Quality Campaign website....
Denver Public Schools officials have hammered out a modified consent decree that makes changes to how the school district’s more than 36,000 English language...
With SAT scores coming out today, we thought it would be a good time to feature this November, 2011 webinar that explores some of the reasons SAT scores can flu...
The findings paint a picture of a new generation of teachers who have high expectations for their students and a strong desire to build a profession based on hi...
EWA spoke Shelby McIntosh, a research associate at the Center on Education Policy, about the new report High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition...
In the “Obamacare” ruling, NFIB v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court told us that conditions attached to federal spending are unenforceable if they cross the line...
A study released this week shed some positive light on the nurturing nature of Mexican immigrant mothers, while at the same time confirming that a warm home env...
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