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Bill Ayers, a retired professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in no uncertain terms takes aim in this post at federal school policies that led to the Atlanta cheating scandal. Ayers, a radical activist during the 1960s and '70s, had the national spotlight thrown on him during the 2008 presidential campaign when right-wing commentators tried, incorrectly, to say he had a close relationship with then candidate Barack Obama. In any case, Ayers is a well-known Chicago educator who worked with mayor Richard Daley on school reform and who taught and did research for years at the university. He has written numerous articles and books on elementary education.

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Stanford University will team with a nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to develop an open-source Web platform for free online college courses.

The Stanford alliance with the nonprofit venture edX, announced early Wednesday, signaled a new twist in what has become a race to open up the highest levels of higher education to the world.

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Officers and a bomb-sniffing dog were on hand as the rifle association unveiled its plan to train and arm security guards at every school in the nation.

Harvard’s search of staff e-mail accounts went further than previously disclosed, administrators said Tuesday.

One of the teachers accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a student at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts had earned near-universal admiration and was nicknamed the “Czar.”

In a city marked by pockets of entrenched black poverty, some of the worst schools in Tennessee, taken over by the state, are in the midst of a radical experiment.

The 78 new schools will have seats for 10,000 students in the fall, in all five boroughs, and span the years from elementary to high school.

The largest cheating scandal in recent history is fueling critics who say that standardized tests as a way to measure achievement should be scaled back.

A marked increase over the last decade in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could fuel growing concern that the diagnosis and its medication are overused in American children.

The blast from a mortar shell killed at least 10 people at Syria’s flagship Damascus University, where students had done their best to go about their business.

“Cram schools,” once the cultural domain of Chinese-, Korean- and Russian-American students, have gained traction with non-Asian parents hoping to improve their children’s test scores.

Maryland senators are scheduled to vote on a compromise bill Wednesday that would allow Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III to select the county’s new schools superintendent and choose the chairman and vice chairman of a retooled Board of Education.

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Some economists say the government should focus on programs for infants and toddlers, which may be better at reducing inequalities between the rich and the poor.

Florida Atlantic University announced that the Geo Group Foundation, the charitable arm of the private prison corporation, planned to withdraw a $6 million gift to name its stadium.

A recent crop of programs is trying a new approach to increasing the number of women in the technology field: Teaching teenage girls how to write computer code.

A 10th grader at Glen Burnie High School in Anne Arundel County brought a .22-caliber handgun loaded with seven rounds onto campus Tuesday, carrying the weapon in his backpack before he was stopped and searched, police and school officials said.

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States that run afoul of federal rules for special education funding will be punished, though not forever, under change to "maintenance of effort."

The consortia devising new common assessments must navigate many obstacles in making the tests accessible to English-learners and students with disabilities.