News Source: The Economic Times
| 19 days ago
To illustrate how parents can set high academic standards for their children, President Barack Obama related a personal story about how daughter Malia succeeded in improving her grades with a bit of push from daddy. "In our own household, with all...
News Source: Arizona Republic
| 20 days ago
President Barack Obama is making the need for parent involvement personal, citing his own daughter's classroom challenges. During a speech about his administration's education priorities, he talked about his sixth-grade daughter, Malia, and her study...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 20 days ago
Declaring that there should be "no excuse for mediocrity" in public schools, President Obama this afternoon pledged to push for recruitment of better teachers, better pay for those who succeed and dismissal of those who let their students down. When...
News Source: The Washington Times
| 20 days ago
President Obama sent an unmistakable message to the nation's teachers unions and school administrators Wednesday during a speech at a Wisconsin charter school: Don't stand in the way of education reform. "We've let partisanship and petty bickering...