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How AI is used -- or not used -- in the classroom makes a big difference.

Teach for America cared about student achievement -- till they decided teaching students "to interrogate systems of power" was more important, writes Doug Lemov.

Dillon was the only white student at the Harlem charter his mother started. He thrived. It's teaching, curriculum, assessment and school culture that count.

Educators often say homework doesn't matter, but those who do the most (themselves) learn the most.

An Atlantic writer who overcame her "abysmal education" will send her son to private school.

Parents can find effective urban public schools, especially if they consider charters.

"Grading floors" -- a minimum grade of 40 or 50 percent even for missing work -- are now banned in South Carolina schools.