As the November election nears, I am absolutely appalled and heartbroken as I watch the teams behind Ms. Munger's Proposition 38 and Gov. Brown's Proposition 30 campaigns continue to take aim at each other.

Even though the national consciousness has been raised regarding issues related to education and folks are more engaged and informed than ever before, the efforts to misinform, malign, and muddy the truth remain.

Lots of factors go into the decision of whether to move and where, and for parents, this decision is largely driven by what matters most to their families: affordability, more space and of course good schools.

In June, Mitt Romney told Virginians on the campaign trail that he wanted "to make sure that we keep America a place of opportunity..." "...where e...

WASHINGTON -- Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the T...

Numerous school districts across the country are facing significant budget cuts, with return to pre-recession levels not expected until 2013 at best. ...

More and more school districts are asking for budget increases to hire investigators and detectives to follow around low-income mothers and their kids to ensure that they aren't 'stealing an education' from the state. Really?

School districts concerned with improving outcomes for children would do well to look to kids' earliest years. High quality early childhood education improves the odds for high needs children.

Missing from the conversation about education reform has been a larger discussion of district and principal accountability.

Finance reports filed Monday by committees involved in the Nov. 1 election show that the Denver teachers union has spent $88,500 on two Denver school-...

Forget about that last-minute extra book review or lab report to push that B+ to an A-. Students in the sixth through 12th grades at one Utah scho...

By Sharona Coutts, and Al Shaw, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Education recently released the largest and most comprehensive snapshot of the edu...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Over the last decade, San Francisco's Willie Brown Jr. College Preparatory Academy has seen enrollment plummet and student performanc...

WASHINGTON -- Education leaders, teachers and their advocates gathered at the American Federation of Teachers national conference this week and expres...

Colorado's largest teacher's union is asking a judge to toss new regulations that require teacher arrests to be publicly disclosed. From the Colora...

Teacher contracts expire in many places Friday, and for many teachers, those contracts won't be picked back up. State budget deficits and increased cu...

This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com. When the Hesby Oaks School reopened its doors in 2006 after being closed f...

Children in some New Jersey school districts may soon be living nearly every student's dream: No more homework on the weekends. Based on research, p...

If we had a difficult time finding teachers when we had money and no strings attached, what makes anyone think that people will be rushing to teach in my district? The answer is they won't.

Stop paying lip service to the professionalization of teaching and figure out a way to reward teachers for what they do and create reasons for them to stay.