Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup…
Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disability, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the American Civil…
Studies have long indicated that children whose parents lose jobs will falter academically. But new evidence shows that widespread job loss doesn't only affect the children of the…
In a development that would have been unheard of a decade ago, about 200,000 U.S. school children are enrolled in full-time online programs, BusinessWeek reports.
Siddharth Iyer spent eight Mays cramming for finals, first at Stuyvesant High School and then at Columbia University. Nine years later, it is still crunch time for Mr.…
Engaging students at younger ages and making science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more appealing were some of the main topics up for discussion at a roundtable…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave June 6 to show off the company’s latest innovations, which include a new cloud-based storage service that could…
A North Carolina lawmaker doesn't think it was right for his daughter and her third-grade class to write to him and other elected officials protesting possible cuts in…
Educators and a state legislator are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to restore funding to two computer databases that track the performance of students and teachers and could…
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president last week. I went to his web site to read his ideas about education. There weren’t any, says…