By Julie Mack KALAMAZOO — Until recently, a good job evaluation was virtually automatic for U.S. schoolteachers. For tenured teachers, something on the order of 99 percent were rated as […]
WGU Texas, a subsidiary of the nationally recognized nonprofit Western Governors University, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. WGU Texas announced that it is one of three state subsidiaries […]
Math teachers in the United States need better training if the nation’s K-12 students are going to compete globally, according to international research released by a Michigan State University scholar. […]
A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. By JASON L. RILEY ‘It’s hard to improve public education—that’s clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if […]
By Richard Lee Colvin “Let’s take the politics out of education.” In my many years observing and writing about American education I’ve probably heard variants of that phrase hundreds of […]
By Daniel Borunda The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has selected El Paso Community College to take part in a program intended to increase graduation rates at community colleges across […]
The richest man in America stepped to the podium and declared war on the nation’s school systems. High schools had become “obsolete” and were “limiting—even ruining—the lives of millions of […]
