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• Department of Education Rules Tufts University Violated Title IX
• California superintendent race shows Democrats split on school reform
• US high school graduation rates hit historic high
• U.S. high school graduation rate reaches record 80 percent
• Study: Record High School Graduation Rate On Track for 2020
• At a glance: high school graduation rates
• Demographic Breakdown of the 2014 Best High Schools
• Frequently Asked Questions: 2014 Best High Schools Rankings
• 2014 Best High Schools Rankings: Information for High School Officials
• Prosecutors: Prep school graduates ran drug ring
• Glitches prompt suspension of Oklahoma tests again
• US sends salvage ship to help with S.Korea ferry disaster
• The Most Costly College Financing Mistakes: How To Avoid Them
• South Korean President Calls Ferry Crew's Actions Murderous
• The Stupid War on the Common Core
• Nigeria gunmen raze teachers residence at girls school
• AP Top News at 7:45 a.m. EDT

Department of Education Rules Tufts University Violated Title IX Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:36 PM PDT The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that Tufts University was found in violation of Title IX for its handing of sexual assault and harassment complaints on campus. The Office for Civil Rights announced the conclusion to its investigation in a press release late Monday, stating that Tufts, with three campuses across Massachusetts,  "did not investigate alleged sexual assaults when notified unless the allegations were part of a written complaint," and failed to provide the appropriate programs and securities to protect a student during a sexual assault investigation. Students who brought forwards complaints also faced "a hostile environment," and were "denied... access to educational opportunities at the university." When separating the student who filed a complaint from their accuser, the school also favored the accuser and "disproportionately burdened the student." The school does not have a good reputation for handing sexual assault cases.  Tufts believes the programs put in place over the course of the OCR's investigation were sufficient.

California superintendent race shows Democrats split on school reform Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:26 PM PDT (This version of the story corrects April 25 story to political consultant Hefner is Torlakson's campaign manager instead of Tuck's, paragraph 17) By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The race to be California's superintendent of education is shaping up to be an expensive contest between fellow Democrats - one backed by the party establishment and teachers unions, and the other calling for school reform. Former charter school executive Marshall Tuck said on Friday he planned to unleash campaign ads and social media outreach next week to unseat incumbent state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a former lawmaker and teacher who has the backing of unions and the state party organization.

US high school graduation rates hit historic high Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:34 PM PDT For the first time since such data has been kept, 80 percent of America's high schoolers are graduating in four years, according to new data from the Department of Education. Some believe the US graduation rate is on track to hit 90 percent by 2020. Gains were made by all disadvantaged groups, including low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities, and English language learners – though significant gaps remain for all those groups, and there are large disparities in the graduation rates for different states. After 30 years of flat-lining high school graduation rates and four successive US presidents setting a 90 percent graduation goal, finally over the last decade we've seen a 10 percentage point gain," says John Bridgeland, coauthor of the 2014 Building a Grad Nation report, which was also released Monday.

U.S. high school graduation rate reaches record 80 percent Posted: 28 Apr 2014 01:30 PM PDT By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. high school graduation rate reached a record 80 percent in the 2011-2012 academic year, the Obama administration said on Monday in a report that tallied the number of students graduating within four years of starting high school. The 80 percent rate for the 2011-2012 school year compares with a graduation rate of 79 percent in 2010-2011, according to National Center for Education Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Education that collects and analyzes education data. The Obama administration has credited its Race to the Top competitive grant program with raising the graduation rates. Critics of Race to the Top have said that program widens the gap between higher-performing schools and lower-performing ones because schools that are already successful to begin with may have an edge over struggling schools in putting together winning bids.

Study: Record High School Graduation Rate On Track for 2020 Posted: 28 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT The U.S. is on track to graduate a record number of high school students by 2020. That's the good news in a report released today, but the bad news is that certain groups of students -- special education, low-income and minority students -- continue to lag behind. The nationwide graduation rate reached 80 percent in 2012, the highest in U.S. history, and is on pace to reach 90 percent by 2020, according to the 2014 "Building a Grad Nation" report released by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. But for the majority of the states, achieving a 90 percent overall graduation rate will not be possible without significant improvements in graduation rates for these populations of students, according to the report.

At a glance: high school graduation rates Posted: 27 Apr 2014 09:03 PM PDT A look at the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate, by percentage, in 2012 for overall and low-income public high school students by state. Idaho, Kentucky and Oklahoma are excluded from the chart because the states obtained waivers from the federal government to take longer to develop their systems.

Demographic Breakdown of the 2014 Best High Schools Posted: 21 Apr 2014 06:45 PM PDT U.S. News evaluated 31,242 public schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 2014 Best High Schools rankings, with 19,411 schools eligible to be ranked. Below, we have also conducted a detailed demographic breakdown of the 4,707 medal winners.

Frequently Asked Questions: 2014 Best High Schools Rankings Posted: 21 Apr 2014 06:44 PM PDT The Best High Schools project identifies the country's top-performing public high schools. The goal is to provide a clear, unbiased picture of how well public schools serve all of their students -- from the highest achieving to the lowest achieving -- in preparing them to demonstrate proficiency in basic skills as well as readiness for college-level work. The first list of the U.S. News Best High Schools was posted online on Nov. 30, 2007. The current 2014 edition of Best High Schools was published online on April 22, 2014.

2014 Best High Schools Rankings: Information for High School Officials Posted: 21 Apr 2014 06:42 PM PDT The basic 2011-2012 academic year data on high school and school district names, enrollment, ethnicity, magnet or charter school status and other profile information came directly from the Common Core of Data on the U.S. Department of Education's website. College Board was the source of the Advanced Placement test data for each public high school, when applicable, which were used to create calculated values used in the rankings. International Baccalaureate was the source of the International Baccalaureate test data for each public high school, when applicable, which were used to create calculated values used in the rankings. Each high school's statewide accountability test results were collected directly from official sources in that state.

Prosecutors: Prep school graduates ran drug ring Posted: 21 Apr 2014 06:23 PM PDT ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Two prep school graduates sought to use their sports connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales to high school students in the affluent Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia, authorities said Monday.

Glitches prompt suspension of Oklahoma tests again Posted: 21 Apr 2014 06:22 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's public schools superintendent suspended online testing across the state on Monday after middle and high school students systemwide experienced disruptions during high-stakes standardized tests for the second consecutive year.

US sends salvage ship to help with S.Korea ferry disaster Posted: 21 Apr 2014 10:22 AM PDT The United States is sending a Navy salvage ship to help South Korea with the recovery of the ferry that capsized last week, the Pentagon said Monday. South Korea has not formally requested the ship, but the USNS Safeguard was being moved from Thailand toward South Korea in case it does, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said. An amphibious assault ship, the USS Bonhomme Richard, is already taking part in rescue operations off the southwestern coast where the Sewol sank on Wednesday with 476 people aboard, including 352 high school students on a holiday trip.

The Most Costly College Financing Mistakes: How To Avoid Them Posted: 21 Apr 2014 10:11 AM PDT While I highly value a college education -- I have two degrees -- I despise the idea of college debt.  I graduated without this onerous burden, but few can do it today. That's why there's more than $1 ...

South Korean President Calls Ferry Crew's Actions Murderous Posted: 21 Apr 2014 04:31 AM PDT South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that the actions of the crew members of a ferry that sank last week with 476 people on board were "like an act of murder." Five days after the boat capsized, divers continue to search for the 238 missing passengers, most of them high-school students, who are now presumed dead. So far, seven members of the crew — including captain Captain Lee Joon-seok — have been arrested for their role in the disaster.

The Stupid War on the Common Core Posted: 21 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT An unholy alliance between the Tea Party and the teachers' unions threatens to derail the most promising education reform in decades.

Nigeria gunmen raze teachers residence at girls school Posted: 20 Apr 2014 09:49 AM PDT Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Gunmen in northern Nigeria set fire to a staff residential building at a girls' secondary school on Sunday but the 195 students sleeping in their nearby dormitories were unharmed, police and a teacher said. The attack in Bauchi state came less than a week after Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 129 teenage schoolgirls from the Chibok area of Borno state in the northeast. "At about 2:30 am (0130 GMT), unknown gunmen carried out coordinated attacks in Yana town," Bauchi's police spokesman Haruna Mohammed said. They burnt "several buildings including a staff quarters of a girls' secondary school, an eight-block police quarters, a sharia (Islamic law) court and the local government secretariat," he told AFP.

AP Top News at 7:45 a.m. EDT Posted: 20 Apr 2014 04:45 AM PDT MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what almost certainly is just the beginning of a massive and grim recovery effort. About 250 people are still missing from the ship, the vast majority of them high school students who had been on a holiday trip. Anguished families, waiting on a nearby island and fearful they might be left without even their loved ones' bodies, have vented their fury, blocking the prime minister's car during a visit and attempting a long protest march to the presidential Blue House.

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