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'Opportunity Gap' expected to drive US education discussion
WASHINGTON - For more than a generation, educators and policymakers have been agonizing about America's achievement gap, the persistent chasm in academic performance between poor and privileged children.
Overtesting prompt parents, schools to 'opt-out' of standardized exams
WASHINGTON - A decade into the school accountability movement, pockets of resistance to standardized testing are sprouting up around the country, with parents and students opting out of the high-stakes tests used to evaluate schools and teachers.
More states require 3rd-graders to pass reading test
WASHINGTON - A growing number of states are drawing a hard line in elementary school, requiring children to pass a reading test in third grade or be held back from fourth grade.
US reading scores on SAT exam fall to lowest level in four decades
Reading scores on the SAT for the high school class of 2012 reached a four-decade low, putting a punctuation mark on a gradual decline in the ability of college-bound teens to read passages and answer questions about sentence structure, vocabulary and meaning on the college entrance exam.
Failing school can be taken over by parents, Calif. court says
A group of California parents has cleared a legal hurdle to become the first in the nation to take over a failing elementary school under a “parent trigger law,” a legal tool gaining popularity around the country.
Industry ramps up effort vs. kids' food guidelines
WASHINGTON - The food and advertising industries have launched a multi-pronged campaign to squash government efforts to create voluntary nutritional guidelines for foods marketed to children.
Feds, business still at odds over injuries
The strained muscles that affect millions of American workers, from white-collar professionals who spend hours at their computers to poultry workers who process chickens, are proving to be painful as well to the Obama administration.
Genetically altered salmon could be on sale soon
WASHINGTON - As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species.
Obama hails votes giving new powers to regulate tobacco
WASHINGTON — By a 3 to 1 margin, the House of Representatives Friday approved a bill passed by the Senate this week that gives the federal government sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco.
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