Topic: Arne Duncan
More hours, more success
Las Vegas Sun
The time is right for the nationÕs public schools to add more instructional hours Educators in the United States have long discussed increasing the instructional time offered in public schools, either by shortening summer vacation, offering classes on Saturday mornings, adding time to the school day — or by a combination ...
NCAA tourney teams get grades; summer school next?
AP News
Six years of report cards later, only one student sent to corner at tournament timeSome six years after the NCAA warned members to get serious about graduating student-athletes or lose scholarships and face a postseason ban, here's the list of Division I schools that have been sent to sit ...
Ed secretary: ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
AP News
Teams with low graduation rates should be barred from NCAA tourney, Education Secretary saysU.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn't go ...
Duncan: More than math, reading important
AP News
Duncan: Education proposal broadens focus beyond math, reading, to `well-rounded education'President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "a well-rounded education," Education Secretary Arne Duncan says. Reading and math are important, but so are ...
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