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NGA Center Policy Academy to Help Enhance Overall Teacher Effectiveness

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) today released a blueprint to help state policymakers accelerate the development of high-quality charter schools.

"It is a remarkable achievement," said Dayley, who noted that some colleges prepare for months. "Our students do well because they are skilled analytically, are comfortable debating political issues, and know how to write well and work collaboratively."

Washington State University’s College of Business, in partnership with the Center for Distance and Professional Education, is launching an Online MBA program beginning fall semester.

Scarcely any state, even those with worse economies, is punishing higher education funding more than the Washington Legislature is about to do. So long, first tier!

The Internet portal is teaming up with academia to promote cloud-based research.

The principal’s office at Havermale High School is more like a lounge, with a open door and rare moments of solitude.

In the first American effort of its kind, universities and colleges in Indiana, Minnesota and Utah are starting pilot projects to make sure that degree programs in their states reflect a consensus about what specific knowledge and skills should be taught.

Leveraging Higher Education for a Stronger South Carolina outlines more than 100 recommendations distributed among the following four goals: making South Carolina one of the most educated states in the nation; increasing innovation and research; improving workforce training and educational services; and, realizing the state’s potential.

Daily playtimes are a centerpiece of the curriculum used in Ms. Randle’s Head Start classroom, "Tools of the Mind" — which incorporates training in "executive function," or the mental ability to control impulses and focus on new information, into children’s routine.