Here’s a copy of the eighth-grade exam used in schools in Bullitt County, Ky., in 1912. It was recently donated to the Bullitt County History Museum, which is…
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote repeatedly on the subject of education and some of his thinking on the subject, while decades old, is still relevant, the Washington Post…
The United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania has activated a hotline where citizens can report “suspected possible corruption in public education,” the Washington Post reports.
Here are 10 things that teachers, parents and students can do to help ensure a SUPER GEEKY SAFE....errm... Aware! new year. (There is no *safe* on the Internet,…
As school choice becomes a mantra of 21st century education reform, especially for the growing charter school movement, traditional public schools also are embracing free-market competition, the Washington…
A policy brief released last month concluded that contrary to popular perception, most U.S. public schools require at least as much or even more instructional time for students…
Looking back on 2011, we saw in K-12 education some continuation of the misguided obsession with teachers unions, as Republican governors sought to cripple public employee unions in…
As Newt Gingrich has surged in the Republican presidential polls, we’ve heard more and more in the media about his intelligence, about him being a large thinker, the…
Maybe Bruce Friedrich raised the lesson-plan issue because he was so out of sync with the recent college graduates who were the other Teach for America instructors at…
If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform–charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations–then 2011 was…
The National School Boards Association recently released a report comparing the time U.S. students spend in school to the time spent in school in other countries—questioning the trendy…
The outcry against exploitative online for-profit education is growing at roughly the same rate as the clamor for increasing amounts of educational technology—laptops, tablets, smart boards—from preschool to…
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday ordered $1 billion in midyear cuts to California’s budget that will result in pain for students who rely on school buses to get…
A new report concludes that contrary to popular perception—including that of Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s — most U.S. public schools require at least as much or even more…
The conventional wisdom among many education commentators is that U.S. public school teachers “come from the bottom third” of their classes, says Matthew Di Carlo, senior fellow at…
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took…
There are a lot of college scholarships available that can be classified as unusual, even eccentric, says Valerie Strauss, columnist for the Washington Post.