New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great…
Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic…
As with so many other schools around the country, it was apparent that too many of our students, at all grade levels, were struggling with math and were…
Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County, Calif., School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000—what would have been his compensation…
Several hundred more e-Rate applicants will get funding for the wiring, routers, switches, servers, and other equipment needed to bring high-speed internet access into classrooms, thanks to a…
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because…
PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support, a disciplinary framework for schools to help prevent bullying that is, in my experience, heavy on jargon but light on…
A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school teachers’ effect on their student test scores—complete with the teachers’…
Richard Hyde, the investigator behind the July bombshell report of extensive teacher cheating in Atlanta's schools, expects to have the next installment of the unfolding saga ready by…
Hispanics surpassed blacks in 2010 to become the second-largest racial or ethnic group of young adults in America’s colleges, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data,…
According to the Huffington Post, the Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved a budget late Wednesday afternoon that includes a property tax hike for homeowners, ABC7 News reports.
If money were no object, what would your "dream school" look like—and what it would offer students and teachers? Perhaps surprisingly, many readers responded with practical, common-sense ideas—which…
Though Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple’s helm during the twelve years the company established itself as the leader in educational technology in the 1980s and 90s, it was…
We love to talk about teachers—good teachers, bad teachers. Our entire narrative about schools seems to revolve around finding good teachers and firing bad ones, says Harold Kwalwasser,…
Twitter's 140-character allowance wasn't enough for anonymous rapping teacher duo Two Teachers and a Microphone to talk education with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, reports the Huffington…
A 48-hour national strike got off to a violent start in Chile on Wednesday, as demonstrators clashed with police around Santiago in the worst unrest of Sebastian Pinera's…
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