National Education Policy Center

Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery -- and...

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. For schools facing shrinking budgets, a branded scoreboard on the football field or advertis...

As long as white people are writing the rules, interpreting them, and enforcing them, African Americans have something to worry about--and it's not segregation.

Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according ...

In the end, I fear that students will indeed continue to be losers as our public schools are turned over to private corporations.

The L.A. Times has not been simply reporting on teacher evaluations or ratings. It has been creating them and publicizing them.

Staring a sentence with the words "research shows" is aimed at sticking a dagger in the heart of an opponent's argument. Increasingly, though, I am finding reasons not to trust education research.

Unlike our international peers, Americans don't consider teaching a prestigious profession or even much of a profession at all.