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A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more…
In a desperate effort to boost student performance and save a school system from closure, one Texas school district has made the mid-year decision to eliminate its athletic…
Educators are expressing alarm that the performance gap between minority and white high school students continues to expand across the United States, with minority teenagers performing at academic…
One of the nation’s major educational technology advocacy groups has identified five key goals in a new three-year advocacy plan that will help address and advance new K-12…
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has advocated for large financial institutions in the past, but he stuck up for an interesting new segment of the 1 percent on Saturday:…
Indiana parents could soon have a direct say in turning public schools into charter schools. A measure being pushed in the Indiana House of Representatives would let them…
Public school teachers in Hawaii have rejected a contract that called for a move to a performance-based evaluation and compensation system, as required by the Race to the…
State health officials have determined stress likely caused a dozen female high school students to suddenly experience tics and other neurological symptoms associated with Tourette Syndrome, they said…
In a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Education and the Close Up Foundation, 50-100 teachers from across the country will meet with the Department's Teaching Ambassador…
Caving to a massive campaign by internet services and their millions of users, which also included universities such as Syracuse and MIT, Congress on Jan. 20 indefinitely postponed…
Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of U.S. students’ math achievement, and now math teachers have a new resource, aligned with the Common Core standards and available free…
Clare Davidson-Sherman, the adopted daughter of Karen Davidson-Fisher, has "several mommies"--her biological one, her adoptive mother's former partner who has joint custody, and now Davidson-Fisher's legal wife, ABC…
During my 20 years as a local reporter and columnist, I have noticed our schools deal with all of the big national education issues—student assessment, budget cuts, teacher…
School foundations and PTAs used to raise money for the extras - high-tech projectors and special field trips. But these days, private donations to schools have grown dramatically…
Soon after Dennis Kass started teaching history at a small high school in Little Village four years ago, he put his law degree to use, dispensing free legal…