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Financial Advice: Three Levers to Shift Conditions in Schools

How we spend money to reshape structures and systems will determine the success of schooling in America.

November 22, 2013 | Teaching Ahead: Education Week
Rigorous, Engaging Course Work Linked to Positive School Climate Narrowed Achievement Gap in New Alliance Report

The report includes federal, state, and local recommendations for increasing access to high-quality, high-standards curriculum for all students and is the third in the Alliance’s series on school climate.

VIDEO: Upgrading California's Workforce Key Goal of Summit

California's legislature approved $250 million in grant money to spur schools and industry to partner up.

November 20, 2013 | California Economic Summit
Focus on Teachers: Warm Weeze, Authentic Literacy Work in Science

To thrive in this new economy, our students need to learn in and out of school, in person and online, together and independently so they can master skills both of today and tomorrow.

November 18, 2013 | Impatient Optimists
CRC Honors School District for Education Center

Cosumnes River College (CRC) President Dr. Debbie Travis thanked the Elk Grove Unified School District board and staff on Nov. 5 for making her college’s Elk Grove Center a reality.

November 12, 2013 | Elk Grove Citizen
Bringing Real-World Science to the Classroom

Hands-on learning holds promise for making STEM subjects interesting.

November 11, 2013 | US News
New NYC Technical Schools Fighting Stereotypes

In the ’80s, Career and Technical Education (CTE) high schools evoked a place for low-achieving students and easy graduation. But in the past five years, a new squadron of CTE schools emerged.

November 11, 2013 | Epoch Times
Latest Round of i3 Grants Includes Strong Focus on Curriculum

The latest Investing in Innovation grantees, announced last week by the U.S. Department of Education, are proposing an array of curriculum-related strategies to improve student achievement.

November 11, 2013 | Ed Week
Porterville Unified's Pathways Program Sets the Example

When the state Department of Education decided to finally roll out the red carpet for Linked Learning, otherwise known as Pathways in Porterville, one of the sites chosen to highlight was Porterville Unified.

November 11, 2013 | The Porterville Recorder