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• Closing education achievement gap: blue-ribbon panel offers blueprint
• Anti-austerity strike to bring Greece to a standstill
• Schools in crisis, reforms not working, U.S. federal panel declares
• NH House to vote on school tax credit repeal

Closing education achievement gap: blue-ribbon panel offers blueprint Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:48 PM PST How do you decrease the achievement gap and increase equity – and excellence – in America's public schools?

Anti-austerity strike to bring Greece to a standstill Posted: 19 Feb 2013 03:38 PM PST ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek workers walk off the job on Wednesday in a nationwide anti-austerity strike that will disrupt transport, shut public schools and tax offices and leave hospitals working with emergency staff. Greece's two biggest labor unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill during a 24-hour strike over the cuts, which they say only deepen the plight of a people struggling to get through the country's worst peacetime downturn. Representing about 2. ...

Schools in crisis, reforms not working, U.S. federal panel declares Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST (Reuters) - A federal commission on Tuesday said the U.S. education system had "thoroughly stacked the odds" against impoverished students and warned that an aggressive reform agenda embraced by both Democrats and Republicans had not done enough to improve public schools. The report from the Equity and Excellence Commission - a panel of 27 scholars, civil rights activists, union leaders and school officials - describes an American public education system in crisis. ...

NH House to vote on school tax credit repeal Posted: 19 Feb 2013 06:06 AM PST New Hampshire's House is voting whether to repeal a fledgling program that gives businesses a tax credit for donating to scholarship organizations that send students to private or public schools.A majority ...

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