One of the problems with our schools today is that we so often overlook real talent because our schools are set up to only validate one kind of learner.
Ms. Brier is at the cutting-edge of K-6 education, described as "exceptional" by parents. There was just one problem. She had just received her pink slip by the LA Unified School District.
Scoring high on Newsweek's top US high schools Index has created an incentive for schools to push students who have no shot at passing the exams into high-intensity classes.
At their Alexandria public school, my kids have learned how to sail, designed entire cities in cardboard, built skyscrapers with toothpicks and marshm...
Whether to support the fundamental understanding the judicial system, or to inspire a career in politics or law, each DonorsChoose.org project reflects one teacher's hope for the future of their students.
The numbers showed that the relationship between spending per pupil and student outcomes in California (and elsewhere) is somewhere between weak and nonexistent.
Taxpayer dollars should go where they are needed most: to improve public education for all of our nation's children.
Teachers, parents, and students are preparing for a strike on May 15th, hoping to urge the LAUSD to spend its almost $1 billion of federal stimulus money and save jobs now.
We need to understand what pushes these young people out the door, and we need to provide more substantive intervention to more students sooner.
Today, one in six children lives in poverty in America. With a supportive new president and a strong yearning for renewal across America, now is the time to invest in the next generation.
What is homeland security when the youth cannot afford education to secure a future? I want to change what homeland security means.
Dubious strategies in New York public schools have puffed up the graduation rate by a few points, but the city's graduates arrive at community colleges unprepared for college-level work.
Having visited educational systems around the globe, I can tell you that merely offering the basics puts us on par with second-world societies and we're quickly sliding lower.
I'm concerned that Teach for America is being propped up by many as a cure-all for America's education woes, when it is nothing of the kind.
We are now waitlisted for our daughter's neighborhood school, and, having forfeited the opportunity to enlist in a private school, are marooned with few options.
The federal government needs to call a public advisory committee, comprised of representatives from every stakeholder group that cares about what is happening in public schools.
School districts are a strange American anachronism -- no other country delivers public education through local authorities. This historical remnant is completely ineffective in urban America.
Florida has been a leader in education innovation over the last decade, but one bill currently under review threatens to wipe much of that out with one misguided and foolhardy swipe.
A 15-year-old African-American student was expelled for possession of a "weapon" in violation of the school's zero tolerance policy. The weapon in question was a nail clipper with a 2-inch metal nail file.
Forty-one years on from the Kerner Commission's "two societies" declaration, we are traveling from "separate and unequal" to equal but separated.
"The Constitution makes clear there can be no religious test for holding office, and it is just as clear there can be no religious test for individual...
Nicholas Kristof's effusive essay on DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee left me with a sour taste. Here are a few snippets from Kristof's piece, in w...
The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.
Joel Klein has relied on three principles: developing public school leadership, incentives for teacher quality, and accountability. His approach has produced some demonstrable progress.
Transforming the teaching profession into a merit-based system is an obvious first step toward reducing educational inequality.
