Humanities would get more respect -- and graduates would earn more -- if professors made classes harder.

High expectations are worth a few tears.

Lots of people were victims of the Holocaust, says a National Education Association guidebook which doesn't mention Jews.

It's a free country and you're entitled to your opinion. Bring back resilience, free thought and intellectual humility.

While nearly all private high schools require summer reading, most public schools do not. Some ask students to listen to music or watch a movie.

Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.

Teachers aren't prepared for middle schoolers who can't read very well.

After two years of Superintendent Mike Miles' reforms, 74 percent of Houston students are in A/B schools and zero are in "F" schools.

Public schools don't have a monopoly any more. Parents are using taxpayer-funded school choice to find alternatives.

Birmingham (Alabama) schools will offer a $500 prize to two lucky families at each school -- if they get their child to school on the first day.

The success of a "community school" is whether it hires staff and offers programs -- not whether extra services lead to student success -- says Chicago's mayor.

Illinois will screen all students for mental health issues, despite evidence that universal programs school-based programs don't improve mental health or academic outcomes.

There's little evidence that boys learn more in all-male schools.

Kids' picture books build vocabulary, knowledge of the world and a sense of how stories work.

English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.