Claudio Sanchez

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College Board Previews Revisions To SAT

Thursday, March 06, 2014

The upcoming changes that were announced on Wednesday by the College Board will affect more than a million college-bound, high school students. It's the second major revision in nine years.

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College Board Breaks Out Red Pen For SAT Corrections

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The College Board is announcing new revisions to the SAT college entrance exam. NPR correspondent Claudio Sanchez lays out the Board's proposed changes.

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Teachers Unions Mobilize To Delay The Common Core

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The president of the largest U.S. teachers union is calling on school districts to delay adopting the Common Core education standards. The union's the latest group to voice concerns over Common Core.

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Kids Pay The Price In Fight Over Fixing Philadelphia Schools

Thursday, November 21, 2013

This is the first in a three-part report on Philadelphia schools in crisis.

Sharron Snyder and Othella Stanback, both seniors at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High, will be the first in their families to graduate from high school. This, their final year, was supposed to be memorable. Instead, these ...

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New School Year Brings Sequestration Pain For Many Districts

Saturday, September 07, 2013

The superintendent of the Lancaster, Pa., school district is meeting with teachers and staff at George Washington Elementary. It's the start of a new school year, and he's trying to sound upbeat about the district's finances.

"We continue to lose 5 and 10 percent of budgets each year," Pedro Rivera ...

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Do The Data Exist To Make A College-Rating System Work?

Thursday, August 22, 2013

President Obama unveiled a plan on Thursday that would, for the first time, tie federal student aid to a new rating system for colleges and universities. While the president's message that higher education costs should be reined in was simple enough, the sweeping proposal is anything but.

Beginning ...

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The Charter School Vs. Public School Debate Continues

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Charter schools turn 21 this year. In that time, these privately run, publicly funded schools have spread to 41 states and enrolled more than 2 million students.

But one key question lingers: Do kids in charter schools learn more than kids in traditional public schools?

There have been lots of ...

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Student Loan Rates Set To Double On July 1

Friday, June 28, 2013

The interest rate on government-backed student loans is going to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent Monday.

Republicans, Democrats and the Obama administration could not agree on a plan to keep it from happening. Lawmakers say a deal is still possible after the July 4 recess. But if they ...

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Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The U.S. spends more than $7 billion a year preparing classroom teachers, but teachers are not coming out of the nation's colleges of education ready, according to a study released Tuesday by U.S.News & World Report and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

The study says most schools ...

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Online College Courses Get A Big Boost, But Doubts Persist

Thursday, May 30, 2013

From New Mexico to New York, 10 state university systems have announced they are joining the ranks of elite institutions embracing the massive open online course, or MOOC, system.

On Thursday, they unveiled a landmark partnership with Coursera, a for-profit tech company with 3.5 million registered students. It's the ...

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30 Years On, Educators Still Divided On Scathing Schools Report

Friday, April 26, 2013

Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan's administration released "A Nation at Risk," a report warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American public education.

According to the report, only one-third of 17-year-olds in 1983 could solve a math problem requiring two steps or more, and 4 out ...

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'Core' Curriculum Puts Education Experts At Odds

Sunday, April 14, 2013

At 2 p.m., it's crunchtime for students who write for The Harbinger Online, the award-winning, student news site at Shawnee Mission East High just outside Kansas City, Kan. They've been investigating an initiative to develop common curriculum and test guidelines for states.

The young reporters have pored over countless ...

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El Paso Schools Cheating Scandal: Who's Accountable?

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

No one knows if Atlanta's school superintendent or any of the people accused of falsifying test results will go to jail, but they wouldn't be the first if they do.

Lorenzo Garcia, the former superintendent of schools in El Paso, Texas, has been sitting in a federal prison since ...

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Study: More Adult Pell Grant Students, Not Enough Graduating

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The federal government each year gives needy college students billions of dollars they don't have to pay back — $34.5 billion to be exact. More than 9 million students rely on the Pell Grant program. But a new study says much of the money is going to people who never ...

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