Education News

"We are in the eighth year of a new century and I find it inexcusable that our most valuable asset, our children, do not have all the tools they need to compete in the global economy." Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll

This Policy Trends report examines the growing interest in differentiated compensation, identifying purposes for which it is used and explaining why, among these purposes, rewarding educators for improving student achievement remains the most challenging.

A youth-driven, youth-directed public information piece that features young people offering their wisdom from personal experience on dropping out of school, the impact it has had on their lives, and the decisions they have made to pursue education as a pathway to a career and a better life.

In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th.

Tired of their image as the Rodney Dangerfields of higher education, they have become increasingly vocal in their demand for respect. Nothing less than the nation’s economic future is at stake, they argue.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?

A: Keep it in the cow.

Several states have ensured that higher education got a decent-sized slice of the budget pie.

The series underscores the value of a rigorous high school curriculum in mathematics.

"This is on the top three CEO agendas of every company I know."

The Career Academies produced sustained earnings gains that averaged 11 percent (or $2,088) more per year for Academy group members than for individuals in the non-Academy group — a $16,704 boost in total earnings over the eight years of follow-up (in 2006 dollars).