Hanukkah starts tonight at sundown: Light 'em up. The Hanukkah parody song has become a Jewish tradition.

Kids who've spent a lot of time in child care tend to act up years later, studies have shown. But newer research concludes that's not so:...

Two teen-age boys were killed yesterday, and a boy and girl were wounded as they left their Chicago high school at the end of the day,...

Indiana's state board of education is allowing districts to create diploma tracks for students who want to enter the workforce...

How do you judge a high school's effectiveness? Graduation rates don't mean much: It's easy to raise the graduation rate by lowering...

Ohio's EdChoice vouchers enable 60,000 students from low-income families to leave district schools for alternatives. The program has led...

Denver schools' reform strategy improved achievement dramatically, concludes a University of Colorado Denver study. "The overall effects...

Students just aren't showing up in many school districts, writes Steven Hayward on Powerline. Chronic absenteeism -- missing 10 percent...

Third graders are way behind in reading, reports Hechinger's Jill Barshay. These students, who were in kindergarten when their schools...

The "history wars" are a fight between "imaginary enemies" concludes More in Common, after surveying Americans. "Both Democrats and...

Students are encouraged to express themselves, writes Elizabeth Grace Matthew, who's taught writing at several universities, on The Hill....

Is writing over? The ability to write clearly and cogently has been seen as "a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill,"...

Fewer people are living in poverty, but not because they're earning more, writes Jon Baron on The Hill. We're doing better at giving...

Enlisting in the Army raises earnings for blacks, writes Jeff Murray, citing a new study. Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era by West...

Career and technical education (CTE) programs are surging across the country, but most students don't end up in those careers. In...

Gifted students deserve an education that fits their needs, argues Brandon Wright on Fordham's Advance newsletter. Acceleration and...

"We're not good now, but we can get better" was the unofficial motto of a start-up charter high school in San Jose, I concluded in 2001....

School districts are hiring more staffers, even as enrollments decline. When federal pandemic relief funds run out in 2024, who will be...

Asian-American students are advised to be "less Asian" when they apply to selective colleges, reports Amy Qin in the New York Times....

Seven parents tell Washington Post Magazine why they left district-run public schools for private school or homeschooling. "Since 2019,...