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Education Secretary Arne Duncan just visited Michigan where he visited schools in Detroit and the Perry Child Development Center in Ypsilanti. Here's an open letter to Duncan, put out before the visit and written by Steve J. Norton, executive director for Michigan Parents for Schools, a nonprofit advocacy group pushing for quality local public education. The intent of the letter was to point out the conflict between Duncan-espoused education reform Duncan and the educational values underpinning Perry's High/Scope model, as well as what Norton considers the dangerous direction of education policy in Michigan.

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This word has appeared in 2,880 New York Times articles in the past year.    

Congress now has an array of legislative options to prevent the interest rate from doubling to 6.8 percent on July 1, as scheduled.    

The Bloomberg administration had previously said that it needed 10 years to complete the job.    

After Christine Rubino, a fifth-grade teacher in Brooklyn, posted some rather impolitic comments about her students on Facebook in 2010, the Department of Education fired her.    

Providence Hogan pleaded guilty to embezzling $82,000 while treasurer of the Public School 29 Parent-Teacher Association in Brooklyn and has fallen behind on scheduled repayments.    

Last year, new Hispanic high school graduates became more likely than their white counterparts to go directly to college, according to a study.    

How many times will you check Facebook, Twitter, your e-mail, or another tab on your Internet browser as you read this post? Invite your students to join our virtual discussion about digital distraction by May 28. We’ll choose favorite comments to feature in a separate post in June.    

With one decision about one elementary school, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson is filling in the picture of the future of the District's long-troubled public school system.

It's been clear for some time that the public school system in the nation's capital has been moving toward charter dominance. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out: There are now about 45,000 students in 117 traditional public school buildings under Henderson's control, and there are about 35,000 students in 57 public charter schools beyond her control, run by the D.C. Public Charter School Board. Henderson is planning to close 15 schools this year, and more charter schools are being approved every year.

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