I'm taking some time off to see Quebec City, but I'll be back to blogging by the end of the week. I just had pain au chocolat for...

Universities will have to push failing students above the 50 percent mark or pay hefty fines under legislation proposed by the Australian...

Timed tests are unpopular with progressive educators, writes Hechinger's Jill Barshay. They think they're stressful and reward the...

Selective colleges should stop expecting top students to take calculus, argues Scott White in Forbes. I was with him that far. My...

"Knowledge is what we think with," writes Greg Ashman, an Australian educator, on Filling the Pail. "Thinking in the absence of knowledge...

Many families that tried homeschooling during the pandemic are still at it. As a result, post-pandemic homeschoolers are "more racially...

More schools -- and not just in rural areas -- are adopting four-day weeks, reports AP's Heather Hollingsworth. Districts hope the change...

In Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity, Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler, a Shaker Heights native, writes...

Public schools spend billions on equity training, but have no idea what works, writes Katherine Reynolds Lewis in USA Today. "None of the...

Mom wants to start "Oliver" on puberty blockers. Dad thinks "Olivia" should go through puberty before deciding whether to be male, female...

Number 2 pencils and fill-in-the-bubble are out, writes Matteo Wong in The Atlantic. Standardized tests are going digital. In a few...

The new digital SAT will take two hours, instead of three, and will give students more time to answer each question. That's a much better...

Geology is "rock heavy," complained a geology major in a recent survey, reports Daniel Nuccio on College Fix. Classes are very light on...

When Simon and Garfunkel sang "I am a rock, I am an island," they weren't thinking about gender or sexuality. But, nowadays, rock can be...

Johnny can't calculate -- or order enough pizza for a group of six who each want one-third of a pie. Math proficiency, already low,...

The teacher pay debate tends to be simplistic and unserious, writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. He calls out a tweet by Education...

Fewer young people want to be teachers, writes Jessica Grose in the New York Times. The new teacher pipeline is running dry. She cites a...

Aymann Ismail thought book-banners were prudish hysterics, he writes on Slate. Then a librarian gave him a copy of one of the...

Books published before 2008 have been removed from school library shelves in a school district near Toronto, Canada, reports Nicole...

"Competency-based education," which assesses students on skills rather than seat time, is finally becoming a reality for vocational...