Entries for the 'The Mission is Proficiency' Category

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has vowed to bring renewed focus to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights, announcing his goals on the ...

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America's educational advantage is quickly eroding, testified one of the world's foremost experts on comparing national school systems before a Senate...

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Sam Dillon details for The New York Times the federal Department of Education's plan to bring a revitalized focus to civil rights enforcement. Click ...

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Trish Williams and Michael Kirst report on key findings from their study of California middle schools in this excellent, detailed article.  They ...

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Mark Schneider writes for Education Week about the discrepancies between some states' reported proficiency rates and their scores as tested by the NAE...

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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert details Deborah Kenny's expectations for the teachers and students in her three successful Harlem charter s...

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The Associated Press reports that "President Barack Obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the U.S. public education system, says ther...

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Karin Chenoweth, author of It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, writes for The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing about the poss...

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Relatively small improvements in the skills of a nation’s workforce can have a big effect on its future economic well-being, concludes a new internati...

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