Can you imagine high school without senior year? It's doubtful you can, but that's what may happen in Utah if a state senator's proposal making 12th ...
A Rhode Island high school is set to fire every single teacher after the teachers' union refused to go along with the superintendent's proposed plan f...
According to a new study, gaps in child development are already apparent when babies are just nine months old. Our nation simply can't afford not to significantly increase investments in early childhood development.
To really attack the achievement gap, we need to start building strong communities, integrating services, and transforming assessments.
As a mother of a child with autism and as a trusted children's educator, I thank HBO for focusing on the gifts - the abilities within the challenges of autism.
I confess that working at a university and teaching environmental policy and management probably distorts my perception of the current generation of c...
As young professionals living on LA's West Side, my wife and I both bought into the myth that public schools were, by definition, "less than" their privately funded counterparts.
Arne Duncan must know that the "student-athlete" is a joke, a very bad joke. College professional athletics are indefensible. They should be abolished immediately.
At Utah's West Jordan High School, the halls have swirled lately with debate over the merits of 12th grade: Is it a waste of time? Are students ready...
Yesterday NYC public school chancellor Joel Klein announced that the granting of tenure to new teachers will depend largely on the outcome of their students' test scores.
Liberals have no monopoly on condescension or intellectual and social smugness. Mocking people who drive Priuses is just as common as sneering at people in supersized pickups.
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
I've pulled together some new research on ways that might help your kids improve their grades and do better in school in 2010. Think of it as a little homework for you to help your kids do better with theirs!
Who knew? In the UK, where there is something called the "Government Equalities Office" dedicated to putting equality at the heart of government. Somehow, though, the UK still has a lot of inequality.
The U.S. is falling behind in the rapidly growing clean energy industry, and our educational system and workforce is not prepared to compete.
I found it to be interesting and worthwhile when retired NFL star and broadcaster Tiki Barber joined First Lady Michelle Obama to announce the launch of an ambitious initiative to combat childhood obesity.
Despite the countless claims that Americans do not support providing a path to legalization to undocumented immigrants, information readily available to the general public does not support that conclusion.
New York City bureaucrats won't let Rosa Bracero graduate from high school because her family is homeless. The Daily News reported Thursday that Brac...
If Bing does its job, people move on from our search engine pages into the Web site content that we don't control, and the final reckoning about whether they trust this information still lies before them.
It is not enough to just rely on fine arts classes to infuse creativity into our students, although they are critical. We must also find ways to incorporate creativity across a broad range of disciplines.
Children's constitutional right to education is not negotiable. Belts can be tightened in hard times, but only in ways that ensure all children are prepared to work, vote and live in our modern society.
Washington, DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee just penned the following commentary, which originally appeared at Spotlight on Poverty and Opp...
At Berkeley High, the achievement gap persists because privileged parents thwart efforts to develop equity between students, and use their social capital to get their way, even if it's against the interest of their kids.
As their party now holds an insurmountable 41 to 59 majority in the Senate, Republican leaders yesterday presented their legislative agenda for 2010, ...
In the movies, the credits roll right after the kids get their college acceptance letters. For Denisse Polanco, college is just the first act.
