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NYU Hosted Alliance to Study Improvement in City Schools

NYU will host a new center to study improvement in City Schools. The university has already appointed an Executive Director for the post. Initial Funding is already secured from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation.

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Education system in India needs reform

Indian education system needs to be reformed so that it could incorporate culture-based education and link the younger generation with the older one, former NCERT director J S Rajput said today.

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Divided Reactions on New Grading System in Sweden

Oppositional Social Democrats have signalized their willingness to negotiate with the government about the implementation of a new grading system in school.

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China drafts law to curb exam cheating

China is drafting a law to combat rampant exam cheating, said the country's education ministry on Wednesday.

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Test Scores Slow Under No Child Left Behind Reforms

As Congress reviews federal efforts to boost student performance, new research published in Educational Researcher (ER) reports that progress in raising test scores was stronger before No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, compared with the four years following enactment of the law.

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Bono gives weight to proposed US education bill

Rock singer Bono threw his weight behind legislation proposed by a group of Democrats and Republicans, including presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, that would boost funding for free basic education for some of the world's poorest children.

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Qatar successfully implements redesign of education system

In only a few years, the State of Qatar has successfully implemented a bold redesign of its K-12 education system, incorporating school autonomy, variety in curriculum, parental choice and accountability measures, according to a report issued today by the RAND Corporation.

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We need academic freedom, says Indian Education Planning Commission Consultant

Quality higher education is still the cause of concern for the government of India, said BS Baswan, senior consultant (education), planning commission, Government of India.

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Does Student Achievement Really Spur National Economic Growth?

Educational policy discourse supports the idea that increases in science and mathematics achievement correlate to nation-wide economic gains. However, a thought-provoking new study from the American Journal of Education challenges the perceived causal links between educational achievement and economic growth.

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