The Washington Post contrasts reinforcement used at some Washington, D.C. schools in order to motivate students when taking standardized tests, with the negative reinforcement used at another, Wilson Elementary.
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia schools officials say they've found cheating at 11 schools during the last school year. The district's Office...
As a community we need to think broadly about solutions that will allow students to take a break from school without pushing poor families to their breaking points.
The level of controversy Michelle Rhee has engendered as a school reformer contrasts sharply with largely unskeptical reviews of her new book, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First.
Only four in 10 D.C. third-graders are proficient readers and even fewer are proficient in math, according to a report release Monday. According to...
In an ironic twist, public school leaders in the nation's capital are considering allowing its high school students to graduate without taking an adva...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wants Americans to take time out and volunteer for community service projects to give back to others. Obama is h...
The Rhee critics trying to make the sins of some teachers the sins of Rhee merely illustrate how polarizing Rhee was, and still is. There are plenty of reasons to judge Rhee harshly for her time here, but cheating doesn't even make the top ten.
American youth appear less interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields compared to students of other countries ...
This piece comes to us courtesy of This Week In Education. How fascinating to wake up and find out that Adell Cothorne (pictured), the Noyes Elemen...
Washington, D.C., students scored better on standardized exams about sex education and drugs last spring than they did on the reading and math portion...
Twenty D.C. Public Schools have been targeted for closure before the next school year, Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced Tuesday. Per the Washin...
A list of D.C. Public Schools targeted for closure or consolidation is expected to be announced Tuesday by Chancellor Kaya Henderson, the Washington ...
In a follow-up to its report on teacher retention titled The Irreplaceables, The New Teacher Project examined retention patterns in the District of Co...
Teachers in Fairfax County, Va. say they are so confused and overwhelmed by the new system of teacher evaluations that they will resort to cheating, t...
Letters were recently mailed to parents with children in the District of Columbia Public Schools system, informing them if their child was being taugh...
Education is one of the toughest issues facing our city and our region so it's critical we engage in an honest conversation about it as we move forward.
A report commissioned by DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson in March 2011 and released Wednesday said it didn't find evidence of widespread c...
The District of Columbia is paying more than 300 students $5.25 an hour to attend summer school, the Washington Examiner reports. The "Summer Brid...
Standardized test scores for D.C. public school students showed growth in three subject areas, according to statewide 2012 DC CAS results released Thu...
Students at a Virginia school district had to retake standardized exams after five teachers were found to have given "inappropriate assistance" to stu...
Americans continue to lose faith in their public schools, a Gallup poll reported recently. Less than a third of Americans said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in schools. Why the drop?
The class action lawsuit the ACLU announced last week against both Michigan and a tiny Detroit area school district for failing to educate its own children raises this question: Can schools ever compensate for the ills of poverty?
The startling array was courtesy of the College Board, which wants President Obama and Mitt Romney to start debating fixes to the nation's beleaguered public school system. Yes, education needs discussing. But guess what? These two candidates are already on the same page.
The DC public school system has made several significant positive strides in recent years. But until it gets its spending under control, all of these positive developments are going to get lost in its perception as a bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.
