Making Education News: July 1, 2014

1. The Obama administration has started requiring poorly-performing Head Start providers to compete against other local providers–and win–in order to keep their grants for the next five years. 2. The bi-partisan Success and Opportunity through Quality...

Quotable Education Quotes: 6/30/2014

** “….Very few educators or parents have learning or scholarship in their hearts as the end-game for their children, except in the sense of their kids getting good grades. Most of us would prefer our children become the very best people they can be,...

1) 13 states do not belong to either the PARCC or SBAC Common Core testing consortia, considerably more than at the outset. 2) According to a Gates Foundation survey of 20,000 K-12 teachers, 73% said they’re “enthusiastic about implementing the Common...