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Continue Reading →MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — At 15, Terri-Ann Zweeres is getting a glimpse of what it takes to go to college.
While other teens are in study hall, she and about 14 other Bellows Free Academy High School students take a class every three days at Communit…
The U.S. Department of Education last week identified the 23 finalists expected to receive Investing in Innovation , or “i3,” grants in the second round of the high-profile competition, including the Success for All Foundation—the only repeat win…
Continue Reading →Vermont is the only New England state which does not have any sea border. Three quarter of the state land covered with forest, which includes trees, such as maple, pine and spruce, oak, beech and birch. Vermont, nicknamed as the “Green Mountain State”, because of the tree-covered Green Mountains, occupies most of the state’s land. [...]
Continue Reading →A student reads on the campus of Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vt. The well-known liberal arts college and K12 Inc. have teamed up to build online language courses for high school students.
—Bridget Besaw/Middlebury College
Spurred by the ri…
Continue Reading →A deadlock by a federal appeals court over a key legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act means that a lower court’s dismissal of the case still stands.
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, spent 10 months deli…
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island are moving ahead with a joint effort to remake the high school experience in their states.
The New England Secondary School Consortium aims to create high schools that are “flexible, borderless, multid…
By William Snider
Vermont would become the latest state to establish a teacher-led professional-standards board, under a resolution passed last week by the state board of education.
The licensing body will not be fully autonomous, however, as leaders…
By Lynn Olson
Vermont’s commissioner of education has proposed creating one of the nation’s first teacher-dominated state licensing boards as part of a sweeping overhaul in how the state sets standards for teachers and administrators.
But the proposa…
By Robert Rothman
Vermont would become the first state in the nation to assess student performance on the basis of work portfolios, as well as test scores, under a proposal unveiled last week by the state’s commissioner of education.
The proposal, wh…