Closing Education ‘Achievement Gap’ Is Group’s Objective - TheDay

Closing Education ‘Achievement Gap’ Is Group’s Objective - TheDay
Closing Education ‘Achievement Gap’ Is Group’s ObjectiveTheDay, CT - 10 minutes agoHartford ? An advocacy group whose mission is to radically remake public education unveiled a $1.3 billion proposal aimed at helping minorities catch up to …

Australian education professor to talk at SU (The Post-Standard)

Australian education professor to talk at SU (The Post-Standard)
An education professor from the University of Melbourne will give a free lecture on “Making Modern Lives: Schools, Values, Inequalities and Social Change” at 4 p.m. today in Room 114 of the Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus.

Mayor schools Capitol on education plan (Los Angeles Daily News)

Mayor schools Capitol on education plan (Los Angeles Daily News)
WASHINGTON - In a broad effort aimed at ending urban poverty across the country, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is scheduled to reveal a multibillion-dollar national education plan today in the nation’s Capitol. The plan, part of a sweeping assessment on poverty by a U.S.