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Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Obama speaking Thursday at the University of Buffalo. For the last few days, President Obama has been hinting about a new education plan that, he claims ...
The American Graduation Initiative was President Obama's initiative for Community Colleges. Obama announced the initiative at Macomb Community College in suburban Detroit in the summer of 2009. He proposed investing roughly $12 billion in community colleges over 10 years, with the goal of greatly improving their performance in getting students ...
President Barack Obama pushed for stricter teaching standards and a longer school year to improve the American education system, Bloomberg News reported, citing Obama's appearance on NBC's "Today ...
The 2010 "Education Nation" summit took place this past week in New York City. It's goal? To discuss ways to improve a national education system that has fallen far behind that of other nations.
However, as he grew older his views became more typically Unitarian, though he rejected some of the views of Joseph Priestley and the Transcendentalists. [45] He was a founding member of the First Unitarian Church of Washington (D.C.). [45] However he regularly attended Presbyterian and Episcopal services as well. [45]
The Obama administration's Department of Education began Promise Neighborhoods almost immediately upon Obama's first term in office. [8] The program was initially established under the legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education Programs. [9] The Promise Neighborhoods program was initiated in two phases.
Linda Darling-Hammond (December 21, 1951) is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is author or editor of more than 25 books and more than 500 articles [1] on education policy and ...
Former President Barack Obama recently suggested “it’s not racist” to say immigrants in the U.S. should learn English. Of course. Does that mean that they can never use their own language?