The Obama administration's main school improvement initiative has spurred education policy changes in states across the nation, but it is meeting with some last-minute resistance as the first deadline for applications arrives Tuesday.
DURING a recent discussion in Seattle with a group of educators, one of them surprised me when she pointed out that even though their state did not win President Obama's education "Race to the Top," that program was critical in spurring education reform in Washington State.
This further spurred educators at all levels to give great importance to English language education.
Vote for India, another voter mobilization group, organized more than 100 street plays in different neighborhoods to spur voter education.
It was lawsuits over such practices that spurred bilingual education's growth.
This trend has spurred many education reform proposals, but the biggest difference between teenagers here and elsewhere may have less to do with instruction than with employment after school.
Jason Tomassini, a spokesperson for Digital Promise, a non-profit that works to spur innovation in education, predicts that 2014 will see less emphasis on one-to-one devices and more on educational outcomes.
As the world celebrates Global Action Week for Education, UNICEF urges the Angolan government to spur investment in education aimed at reducing the number of out-of-school boys and girls.
In 2014, together with the Center for Education Innovations at Results for Development Institute (R4D), we have selected a first round of innovations to spur changes in education systems and practices.
Furthermore, she said, even if the administration's Race to the Top grant competition may have worked in leveraging change in K-12 schools, higher education is so different that it is not clear that the president's proposal for a similar competition to spur state higher-education reform would be a good tool.
