We need to give poor parents the resources and support they need so they can devote the time and energy necessary to prepare their children for academic success.

The ESEA is once again facing reauthorization in Congress, and we are at another turning point. Now is the time to recommit ourselves to the promise of ESEA, and the very real needs of our children.

From the accepted view that Black and Latino students will do worse than their White peers, two educational systems have emerged in America: one for White students, and another for students of color. But what would happen if we expected more from our youth?

The answers to improving education have to be holistic, and local. President Obama's good intentions of setting a tone unfortunately will not translate into more success until we deal with the whole puzzle.

Since 1966, RIF has distributed 365 million free books to kids who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to read. Putting its funding at risk doesn't speak well of our country's priorities.

One of the reasons why last Sunday's vote was so significant is that it is likely to set up the kind of cascading series of fundamental changes that only comes once every few decades.

When we are honest about what education reform really is about and who it is for, we might just find a way to accomplish the Everest-like reform goals we have set for ourselves.

If we want to create an educational system that works for our young people, we have to start in the places that provide us with the heads of our classrooms -- teacher education programs.

Tthe Common Core Standards released contain a notable omission: social studies. That's because the thorniest debates start when you start tinkering with that age-old question of who gets to write history.

I keep hearing stories from friends about how their child used to love school, but now with so much homework and the pressure of performing on tests, they really dread going.

America's public school system is in shambles, and the poorest kids are the only ones underneath the rubble. Now, it is the duty of the administration to fix America's destroyed public education system.

ATLANTA — President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in impro...

During the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush years the center of American politics was pushed about a hundred degrees to the Right. Obama gets elected and tries to move it about a half degree leftward and all we hear are screams of "socialism!"