Schools identified as high-poverty or high-needs often pose the biggest challenge to educators. How can kids learn, people ask, when they lack adequate food, clothing or safety on the way to class?

Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Linda Lane tonight turned down a pay raise again. For calendar 2012, Ms. Lane was awarded a $15,000 pay incr...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. A new conversation about pre-k is emerging in Mississippi as citizens e...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called on state lawmakers Wednesday to help him create an economic revival in Connecticut, creating more jobs...

The most recent call to close underperforming charter schools came not from a teachers' union or a school district, but from a charter-school trade as...

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. Several dozen elementary schools with scores higher than the state's target for aca...

A Delaware middle school will no longer receive hundreds of thousands in additional funding after it was mistakenly named one of the worst schools in ...

Is it the governors who are demanding that schools be more effective while making draconiana cuts eliminating teachers, closing schools and eliminating subjects that children come to school to enjoy?

Despite higher writing standards in Florida's public elementary, middle and non-high-school combination schools this year, school performance remained...

Amid efforts in education reform, students across the country still face large disparities in educational resources and opportunities, according to a ...

It's 8 a.m., and Mission High School choir director Steven Hankle is about to start class. Soul and hip-hop tunes play softly in the background while ...