The Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have reached what is being called a “historic” tentative agreement to incorporate s...

Texas’ new education commissioner Michael Williams is considering a new system for rating school success that would take into account how well distr...

There has been much debate surround the value of homework, and a recent study led by an Indiana University School of Education faculty member has foun...

To get low-income teenagers to spend more time on school work, a new study suggests that schools should pay them. A recent study released by MDRC a...

Political independents tend to side more with Republicans than Democrats when it comes to educational issues, a nationally representative survey by th...

In an effort to improve scores on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools are scrapping extra credit and...

After two and a half years of stalled negotiations, the Boston Teachers Union and the School Department reached a tentative agreement Wednesday that w...

Three teachers and two principals of a New Jersey school district have been suspended after being accused of helping students cheat on standardized te...

As teacher evaluations are becoming more prevalent in schools across the country amid a growing debate on how best to grade teachers, a new report out...

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. In a dramatic illustration of the impact of income inequality on how children do in...

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. At Coral Reef Senior High, calculus teacher Orlando Sarduy understands complicated formu...

Not surprisingly, gaps in literacy lead to wholesale academic failure -- a pattern that repeats itself over generations. The conditions of poverty that beset families hinder literacy and academic growth; conversely, academic failure spawns more poverty -- and so on.

New Jersey launches a pilot program today that will evaluate teachers at 10 schools by equally weighing a student's academic and classroom performance...

By Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school ...

The country's abuzz with the news and subsequent unfolding of the nation's largest-ever public schools cheating scandal in Atlanta, as the scandal has...

ATLANTA -- Atlanta school officials say 41 educators accused in a cheating scandal have resigned or retired. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution repor...

Three year-round elementary schools opened for classes in Atlanta today without problems, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Two of the thre...

Amid an investigation into alleged cheating on Washington, DC standardized tests, the school district released figures today that show a relatively fl...

ATLANTA (AP) — Just a month before classes start, Atlanta schools officials are trying to determine how many of the 178 teachers and principals accu...