Education News

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.

In drafting test protocols, the consortia crafting common assessments are using research to sort through the wide variety of state-permitted accommodations for English-learners.

Each federally financed consortia is crafting common guidelines for accommodating students with disabilities.

In this lesson we offer one more way to teach about the Holocaust: use contemporary reporting in The New York Times as a lens for thinking about what the press was reporting at the time, and why it was reporting it that way.

New leaders are in place at five groups, and a sixth association is on the hunt, as some try to stay relevant in the policy debate.

In many U.S. schools, students struggling the most in mathematics at the start of high school have the worst odds of getting a qualified teacher in the subject, new research finds.