Today, the poor kids in Philadelphia -- and in many other American cities -- are doomed to fail. This is shameful, because we know what to do.

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Mississippi parents will have to scan their fingerprints every time the...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. MOORHEAD, Miss. — JeMira Nichols entered kindergarten in this sleepy Delta town way ahea...

Many cities have cross-sector collaboratives with similar missions; Cincinnati is the only place where these collaboratives come together to support their public schools.

As Secretary Arne Duncan travels the country on his Back-to-School bus tour, he has refocused his attention on the community schools strategy as a vehicle for implementing a Broader Bolder Approach to Education.

This is a challenging time to be young and poor in the United States. How do we return fairness and equal opportunity to the lives of poor children? How can we improve their chances in life?

At a time when some education reformers argue that only high test scores matter, the rise of the community school movement offers a crucial counterpoint.

Getting the job done and ensuring quality early education for every American kid would be an investment on the order of buying Apple stock in 2003 when it was at $6.56 a share.

Last week, the Obama administration granted waivers to ten states, freeing them from well-intentioned but unrealistic rules under the No Child Left Behind Act.