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Are the graduate students at your college or university unionized? Do you believe student-employees need union protections?...
Change the Equation is a coalition of business leaders who are working to transform the ways students in the United States learn science, technology, engineeri...
This isn’t necessarily a story about education, but it speaks volumes about the challenges and often limited opportunities many young adults in this country f...
Gary Miron, a professor of education at Western Michigan University, is the lead author of a new National Education Policy Center report examining Education Man...
This study, collaboration between Change the Equation and the American Institutes for Research, demonstrates that of 37 state science standards reviewed, only f...
School districts across the country are scrambling to adapt to the growing number of Latino students by hiring more Latino teachers and incorporating more cultu...
Smith was the data reporter for the L.A. Times’ controversial “Grading the Teachers” project, which ranked thousands of teachers (by name) using student t...
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading represents the collaborative efforts of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation’s litera...
Five Questions For … Robert Schaeffer, Fair Test Public Education Director...
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