2014年1月31日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News


School Choice and Common Core: Mortal Enemies

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 12:00 AM PST

The freedom-enhancing, life-improving power of school choice is more than a theory for me. Unlike many of the politicians paying lip service to National School Choice Week this week, the issue of expanding educational opportunity and freedom for all is something I live, breathe, practice and witness every day. My mother was a public school teacher who taught in a majority-minority district in New Jersey for more than two decades. My own two children have been enrolled in private schools, religious schools and public schools.

California cracks down on computer boot camps

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 05:14 PM PST

File - In this April 2, 2013 file photo, student David Wen works during a class at Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco. California consumer protection officials are threatening to close a group of computer coding boot camps that train people to work in the technology industry, saying they failed to get licensed as private schools before they started accepting students. The Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education issued citation letters in January 2014 to at least six computer-programming academies in the San Francisco Bay Area. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California consumer protection officials are threatening to close a number of fast-paced, fast-growing computer coding boot camps that train people to work in the technology industry, saying they failed to get licensed as private schools before they started accepting students.


Texas to offer 2 new algebra II alternatives

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:59 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education adopted two new math courses on Thursday that are designed to cover much of the same material offered in algebra II, which will no longer be required for high school students under the Legislature's academic curriculum overhaul.

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