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Webinar: An Update on Federal Education Spending
During a July 29 webinar, Alliance President Bob Wise gave a short overview of the federal education budget, as well as the process by which the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives allocate...
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A federal focus on high schools is long overdue
In a recent blog post on the Washington Post’s The Answer Sheet, Sarah Garland, a staff writer for the Hechinger Report, discussed how high schools were receiving a disproportionate amount of funding...
View ArticleIf Only Federal Government's Approach to High Schools Mirrored Media Coverage
In a recent article for the Education Writers Association, Linda Perlstein noted that her analysis of education articles from fifteen of the nation’s largest papers, fourteen smaller papers, and one...
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Report Round-Up
Unlocking the Power of Expanded Learning Time: Year Two Report on TASC ELT from America’s Promise Alliance. This report highlights the second year of its three-year Expanded Learning Time pilot and...
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Report Round-Up
Funding Education Equitably: The 'Comparability Provision' and the Move to Fair and Transparent School Budgeting Systems from the Center for American Progress. According to this report, a likely shift...
View ArticleNew Issue of Straight A's Is Available
The newest issue of Straight A's, the Alliance's biweekly newsletter is now available. Individual articles from this week's issue are listed below or you can download a .pdf of the entire newsletter at...
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Stats That Stick: August 10, 2011
Teach for America 2011 acceptance rate:11 percent Washington Post “Campus Overload” blog August 3, 2011If you thought getting into a prestigious college was tough, just try getting accepted into Teach...
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Report Round-Up
Here is a round-up of this week’s education-related reports. Did we miss one? Feel free to put it in the comments section!“Is the Achievement Gap Improving and Are Gaps Narrowing for Title I...
View ArticleObama Releases Fiscal Year 2013 Budget
Released this morning at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia, President Obama's budget for Fiscal Year 2013 proposes $47 billion in discretionary spending (excluding Pell Grants)...
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