Biden’s plans to expand free education may be new for America. But in other countries, they’re the norm. Adam Taylor, Miriam Berger Toddlers wave small Danish flags as they gather to greet Queen Margrethe II of Denmark outside Fredensborg Castle on April 16. (Martin Sylvest/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) When President Biden laid out the ambitious education targets in his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan during his speech to Congress on Wednesday, he invoked concerns of foreign competition to justify them. Twelve years of free education, long the standard in the United States, was no longer enough “to compete with the rest of the world in the 21st century,” Biden said.
By ADAM TAYLOR AND MIRIAM BERGER | The Washington Post | Published: April 29, 2021 When President Joe Biden set out some of the ambitious targets for education included in his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan as he spoke to Congress on Wednesday, he invoked concerns of foreign competition to justify them. Twelve years of free education, long the standard in the United States, was no longer enough to compete with the rest of the world in the 21st century, Biden said. The move prompted backlash from some Republicans, who compared the policies to those in the Soviet Union or said the speech was full of promises of free stuff.
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MONTPELIER â All by themselves, education funding and taxation in Vermont are politically challenging topics at the local level and in Montpelier.
Put them together, and then add a mechanism of addressing chronic underfunding of some schools â but raising education property taxes in communities that benefited from the current formula â and thereâs bound to be tension.
That was the case over the past few days, as the Vermont House of Representativesâ Education and Ways & Means Committees held meetings, jointly and separately, to discuss S. 13, a bill chartering an implementation plan for new per-pupil weighting factors in school districts across the state.
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AIR Researchers to Discuss a Range of Education Issues at the Comparative and International .
American Institutes for ResearchApril 20, 2021 GMT
Arlington, Virginia, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and IMPAQ, an AIR affiliate, will present at several sessions during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held virtually April 25 to May 2, 2021.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts,” and focuses on closely examining the work of the field and how others experience the work in a changing environment with a growing variety of people who may or may not share the same visions for the future. CIES is the largest and oldest comparative and international society in the world, with more than 3,000 members representing over 1,000 univ