New Jersey’s only all-boys public school prompts praise, criticism
Last month marked the grand opening of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Newark, the city’s first and only public, single-sex school, the Huffington Post reports.
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Prop 30 and 38 broken down, in pictures and charts
When Californians hit the voting booths Nov. 6, they will be choosing between two initiatives that will drastically affect how the state's struggling public schools will be funded,…
Watch: The future of ed tech
From school eReaders and flipped classroom models to computerized testing and online courses, educators are still grappling with ways to shift an educational paradigm of the 20th century…
10,000 Ohio 3rd graders could be held back under new law
As many as 10,000 students across Ohio could be held back to repeat the third grade under the new "Third Grade Reading Guarantee" law, the Huffington Post reports.
Study connects parent’s education, income to child’s brain development
A recent study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscientists found a correlation between a parent’s income and education level and the development of certain…
Watch: Boy kicked out of school for his genetic makeup
Colman Chadam, an 11-year-old California boy, has been ordered to transfer from his current school to another one miles away because of his genetic makeup. Now, his parents…
Study: Dual-enrolled students more likely to attend, graduate college
A report by Boston-based education nonprofit Jobs for the Future urges policymakers to expand dual enrollment after determining that high school students who take college courses are more…
From guns to schools? Checking Obama and Romney on education
In perhaps the biggest pivot of the presidential debate Tuesday night, President Barack Obama turned a question about gun violence into an answer about education, the Huffington Post…
Study: Most Michigan school districts in violation of merit-pay law
An analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think-tank, has determined that 80 percent of Michigan school districts surveyed are in violation of the state’s…
Florida sets math, reading goals based on race, ethnicity
Just a few weeks after a similar move by Virginia was met with controversy, Florida has also adopted achievement standards based on race and ethnicity, the Huffington Post…
Romney adviser calls Head Start ‘a social experience’
When it comes to the nuts and bolts of education policy, a topic that ranks high among the concerns of female and Latino voters, Mitt Romney and Barack…
Group claims anti-bullying day promotes ‘homosexual agenda’
A conservative evangelical group is encouraging parents to boycott “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” on Oct. 30 by keeping their children home from school, the Huffington Post…
Romney says hiring teachers won’t help the economy
Days after he declared that he wants to put "more teachers" in schools, Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama's plan to do just that, the Huffington Post reports.
Classroom portraits from around the world
Julian Germain began his "Classroom Portraits" series in northeast England in 2004, but the project's scope has since expanded globally, the Huffington Post reports.
Could Rick Santorum be Romney’s Education Secretary pick?
As we hurtle toward Election Day, it's time to take a closer look at some of the more detailed repercussions of its potential outcomes, says the Huffington Post.
Survey: Romney’s education message in debate beat Obama’s
Most political and policy “insiders” are of the belief that the Chicago Teachers Union won last month’s strike, and that Gov. Mitt Romney out-performed President Barack Obama when…
District to students: Wear tracking ID or ‘There will be consequences’
Weeks after Northside Independent School District in San Antonio rolled out its new "smart" IDs that tracks students' geographic locations, the community is still at odds with the…
Pro-reformers want to pull union ad shot at elementary school
A commercial opposing Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna's controversial education reform measures in Idaho that was filmed at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Caldwell has drawn…
What would really happen to the economy if Romney fired Big Bird?
Mitt Romney may want to kill Big Bird, but when the giant yellow bird flaps his wings, money comes flying out, the Huffington Post reports.
Schools consider installing trash cameras
In an effort to monitor the effects of the new federal lunch policy changes, Lake County school leaders in Florida have proposed using surveys or installing trash cams…
Open letter to debate moderators: Candidates should talk education
Believe it or not, it wasn't until the very last question of the very last debate when the 2008 presidential candidates were finally asked about education policy, says…
Volunteers go door-to-door to get dropouts back in school
A group of 40 volunteers led by Orangeburg Consolidated School District 5 Superintendent Cynthia Wilson went door-to-door throughout the South Carolina district Saturday in search of high school…
Study: Cash encourages low-income students to perform better
To get low-income teenagers to spend more time on school work, a new study suggests that schools should pay them, the Huffington Post reports.
Opinion: Jeb Bush speech best on education
Whiteboard Advisors, a consulting firm that specializes in school policy, recently conducted one of its monthly surveys of 50 to 75 anonymous political and policy "insiders," including current…
12 things you need to know about the economy and education
A paper for The Hamilton Project analyzes the associations between education and various outcomes, highlighting a dozen economic facts on the state of education in America, with a…
American schools still heavily segregated by race, income
Minorities account for nearly half of the student population in America, and will likely become the majority within the next decade or two, but recent studies show that…
Teen’s creative high school dance proposal prompts federal probe
It’s not every day a high school dance invitation prompts a federal investigation, but such was the case last week at Patriot High School in Nokesville, Va, the…
Report finds startling stats about young people out of school
One in seven people between the ages of 16-24 are not in school or working, a new report finds, and it cost taxpayers $93.7 billion in government support…
Black males will need 50 years to catch up to white graduation
More than half the young black men who graduated high school in 2010 earned their diploma in four years, an improved graduation rate that still lagged behind that…
Arizona school sued for giving boy sugar, putting in padded box
An Arizona couple is suing their son's former school district for allegedly throwing him in a tiny, windowless room for bad behavior they say was caused by officials…
Thousands of Virginia kids not required to get an education
More than 7,000 Virginia children may not be getting any form of education as a result of a state law that permits religious exemptions, a recent study found,…
Peanut butter and jelly racist?
A lunchtime staple of students for years, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered one of the more popular items found in the sack lunches of…
Infographics: Charter school attendance has quadrupled over 10 years
US children attending charter schools – publicly funded alternative schools run under contract – have more than quadrupled in 10 years, the Huffington Post reports.
Districts stand to lose millions under Ryan budget proposal
A New America Foundation analysis has calculated that under Paul Ryan’s budget proposal to cut federal spending by 20 percent, 77 percent of the 1,500-plus school districts that…
Miami-Dade Superintendent on public schools, immigration, and the FCAT
It's hard to imagine more than a handful of jobs more difficult than that of Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the Huffington Post reports.
Watch: Spending on education programs not buying better test scores
The federal government has spent more than $293 billion in the past decade to improve student academic performance, on top of a combined $5.5 trillion spent by the…
U.S. students lag, struggle more than foreign peers to surpass parents
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2012 Education at a Glance report has found that while the U.S. boasts high education attainment levels overall, it lags behind…
Meet San Francisco’s own version of the American dream–beginning in the classroom
After serving as San Francisco's Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, Innovation and Social Justice, Carranza assumed the role as the district's head honcho this past July, the Huffington Post…
Texas backs away from NCLB, its own Bush-endorsed creation
Texas, the state that launched school accountability as an experiment, has applied to untangle itself from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind mandate, the same law…
School principals’ workloads to increase under new Indiana law
Beginning this school year, Indiana principals’ job descriptions will include conducting annual teacher evaluations, under a law passed by state lawmakers last year, the Huffington Post reports.