With so many education stakeholders debating the needs of today's schools, student voices aren’t always heard when it comes to what they want from their education.
We are awash in market-based school reform, says Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School, NY, and the School Administrators Association of New York State’s 2010…
The American ideal of lazy summers filled with fun has an unintended consequence: If students are not engaged in learning over the summer, they lose skills in math…
There’s a new experiment to get Prince George’s County high school students ready for higher education: sending them straight to college, the Washington Post reports.
A new report says that competency-based learning is becoming more attainable for schools, and with some actionable policy steps, state education leaders can help schools personalize learning and…
New York City has slashed the number of public-school instructors receiving tenure this year--part of an effort to link teacher advancement to student performance, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced…
The "Race to the Top" program extends the reach of the federal government too far into states' public schools operations, a leading Republican senator said on Wednesday, Reuters…