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U.S.News & World Report Announces the 2013 Best Law Schools
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S.News & World Report today released the 2013 Best Law Schools rankings online at USNews.com. Since 1990, Yale Law School has topped the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings.

McGraw-Hill Research Foundation Policy Paper Cites Urgent Need to Improve Effectiveness of Instruction in Adult Education
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Studies forecast that from 2007 to 2032, better-educated individuals retiring from the U.S. workforce will be replaced by younger workers who have lower levels of skills and education. This statistic, combined with the fact that the gap between our most and least educated is already among the highest in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, underlines the critical need for improving the quality of adult education programs to ensure the future competitiveness of the American workforce. Helping undereducated and underprepared adults to learn requires a targeted set of skills and the cornerstone to strengthen these programs is to improve the preparation and effe ...

Community College Students, Local Business Leaders: Community College Workforce Training Will Get People Back to Work
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 400 community college students and supporters rallied today at the State Capitol in Harrisburg saying that Governor Corbett's budget proposal fails to remedy the skills gap and will ultimately slow Pennsylvania's recovery. In the governor's FY 12-13 budget, community college budgets would be reduced by an estimated 5 percent and, for the fourth year in a row, community colleges will not receive new dollars for capital funding. Capital funding is used by the colleges to update labs, equipment and classrooms to train students for jobs. "The cuts the governor is proposing for the colleges will have adverse effects on our students, our institutions and the commonwealth as a whole," Dr ...

Yarbrough: Public education in Georgia is 'barren wasteland'
Kathy Cox has resigned as Georgia's state school superintendent to take a new job in Washington. I have no way of knowing who will win the job this fall, but I do know that what public education lacks more than dollars is a strong and effective advocate. No one - neither Cox, nor the state school board, the Georgia School Boards Association, the Georgia Association of Educators, the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, the Georgia School Superintendents Association, the charter school groups, the city and county school boards, the governor, nor even the Georgia legislature - seems able to lay out a clear vision of the future of public education in the state.

Department of Education Funds Four-Year Research Evaluation of Mathematics Online Tutoring System
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the University of Maine have received a $3.5 million award from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S.

PA Department of Education Releases 2012-13 Referendum Exceptions Report
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Education today released the Report on Referendum Exceptions for School Year 2012-13, providing detailed information on the number of school districts throughout Pennsylvania that have applied and been approved for exceptions under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 2006. Of the 497 school districts that operate on a fiscal-year basis and are subject to the Act 1 law, for the 2012-13 school year, 298 indicated they would not increase real estate tax rates above the index and 199 sought real estate tax increases above the index by adopting a preliminary budget. Each September, the Department of Education calculates a school district's index. A base index is determined ...

Case Western Reserve's Law School Expands Its Unique China Study Program
Partnerships with prestigious schools will offer students new opportunities CLEVELAND, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Case Western Reserve University School of Law has forged two new partnerships with institutions in China, making the Cleveland-based school a national leader in U.S.-China legal education.