Education News

A lawsuit challenging the District’s plan to close 15 city schools, filed by activists in local court last week, will now be heard in federal court.

The transfer comes at the request of lawyers for the D.C. government, who asked Tuesday that the case be removed from D.C. Superior Court to U.S. District Court, according to court records. Such a move is allowable in cases alleging violation of federal law.

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How do you feel about Rutgers’s decision to fire its basketball coach, Mike Rice, after a video of him taunting and abusing his players went viral?

Our first Poetry Pairing of National Poetry Month matches “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” by William Carlos Williams, with “Alone, Together” by John Leland.

Brian Lindeman, the director of financial aid at Macalester College, answers questions about understanding financial aid packages.

Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert, and Marie Bigham, a veteran college counselor, are answering select reader questions about comparing financial aid offers and deciding where to enroll.

Teenagers’ reactions to a statutory rape case in Torrington, Conn., percolate online, much to the dismay of older residents who would like their community to be known for its middle-class values.

Beverly Hall, the former superintendent indicted with 34 other educators in the state probe, was nationally known for her success in raising students' test scores.

Is interfaith marriage an issue you have thought about? Would you consider marrying someone of a different faith?

Can you choose the word that correctly begins the nonrestrictive clause?

To listen to some school reformers, you'd think there are no urban traditional public schools that are successful. Here's a different story, adapted and excerpted from "Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System And A Strategy For America's Schools" (Oxford University Press), by David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former newspaper editor and policy consultant, as well as the author of numerous articles in various publications and several books, including "Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education." His new book, "Improbable Scholars," tells the story of the public schools in Union City, N.J., where teachers do an amazing job of teaching high-poverty students without employing "miracle" reforms.

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One of education’s most serious flaws is the failure to require that students produce a research paper or project before they graduate from high school.

I vent on this often. I once thought we just needed a change of attitude, but I am learning it is more complicated.

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A compromise bill to alter the leadership of the Prince George’s County school system won a key approval Wednesday in Annapolis, but the measure falls far short of the sweeping changes County Executive Rushern L. Baker III proposed in his bid to take over the schools.

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The Prince George’s state Senate delegation voted 7 to 1 on a bill that would restructure the county school system, allowing the county executive to select the new schools superintendent and choose the chairman and vice chair of a retooled Board of Education.

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The 35 Atlanta public school employees charged in a testing scandal have been released from jail and are awaiting their first appearance in court.

Child care costs have nearly doubled since the mid-1980s, but the portion of families paying for care has dropped, according to a new Census Bureau report.