Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is moving closer to his goal. The former Tennessee governor, former University of Tennessee president, former Secretary of Education and current chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has a huge education bill on the Senate floor. “My top priority in Congress this year is to fix No Child Left Behind by …

It is 1996, and nightclub manager Tom Bennett is watching as a mob of German football fans are pursued down London’s Wardour Street by a group of England supporters. “They were trashing windows as they ran and were chased, in turn, by a cavalry charge of mounted police. We pulled down the shutters, locked the doors and kept everyone in.” …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Samford University’s Howard College of Arts and Sciences hosted 57 high school students June 24-27 for M.D. Calling and J.D. Calling, Samford’s residential summer programs for students called to careers in medicine and law. The 35 M.D. Calling participants enjoyed pre-med advising, expert panels of medical professionals and medical students, networking and a field trip to Children’s …

After receiving flak for record low results in the secondary and the higher secondary state board examinations that led to a series of brainstorming sessions by the education department for a new roadmap, the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has come out with a solution to avoid a similar situation in the future. As a token of …

The government must have the power to warn schools about performance and safety standards because “obstructive” councils “block the process”, says Nick Gibb. But the schools minister was unable to give specific examples when MPs called for him to back up his claim. Mr Gibb told the fifth committee hearing on the education and adoption bill that “there have been …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education elected a retired technology industry businessman as its new president. Mike Green, of Morgantown, was appointed to the board in 2009 for a nine-year term. He’s served the board as vice president since 2013. “I will do my very, very best to provide the best kind of education leadership I can …

Estimating the number of deaths that can be linked to differences in education, researchers have determined that lacking education may be as deadly as being a current rather than former smoker. “In public health policy, we often focus on changing health behaviours such as diet, smoking, and drinking,” said Virginia Chang, associate professor of population health at New York Univerity …

A member of the distance education standards committee of the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ) is arguing that massive open online courses (MOOCs) can to be used to address issues of availability and affordability of higher education in the region. Patrick Anglin, in his contribution to the recently published book, Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean, said that, compared …

The House voted Wednesday to rewrite No Child Left Behind, the nation’s main education law, passing legislation that would significantly scale back the federal government’s role in public education and hand more power back to the states. No Democrats voted for the legislation, which passed by a vote of 218 to 213. More than two dozen Republicans joined the Democrats …

Education Minister Hal Perry was back on the hot seat today in the P.E.I. legislature. The Opposition fired a number of questions at Perry about cuts to his department. Opposition Leader Steve Myers asked Perry if bus drivers that are retiring won’t be replaced and whether that will exacerbate the issue of long bus rides. Myers said two-hour bus rides …