"To prepare Americans for the jobs of the future and help restore middle-class security, we have to out-educate the world," opens the White House's webpage on education. To assure this 'out-educating,' it goes on to suggest "higher standards and better assessments" as well as "smarter data systems to measure student...

In the first hours after the shootings in Connecticut, I know I joined many parents in rushing home to my own kids. I had that visceral, heart-wrenching need to connect with them, to assure myself of their safety, and to just spend time being grateful.

The Newtown shootings happened...

In "Race to Nowhere," students and families share their experiences navigating the lane changes and intersections in the speedway that today's education system has become.

At last week's screening of "Race to Nowhere" at Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, parents, educators and community members reflected on their own...

By Vicki Abeles and Wendy Grolnick, Ph.D.

The release this week of the new education film, Won't Back Down, starring Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal, adds another voice to the clamoring debate about education in the United States. Sadly, it's another voice of blame -- not one framed by reason,...

Homework -- how much, for whom, and to what end -- has long been a focus of discussion and concern among parents, teachers and PTA associations across the country. But since the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001 and Obama's more recent Race to the Top incentive program,...

Homework -- how much, for whom, and to what end -- has long been a focus of discussion and concern among parents, teachers and PTA associations across the country. But particularly since the passage of No Child Left Behind and Obama's more recent Race to the Top incentive program, the...