Dual enrollment helps Texas students do well after graduation, but taking college-prep classes has no benefit, says a new study.

Inflating grades and dumbing-down tests is giving high achievers no way to show their competence.

In education, reliable achievement is far more important than peak performance, and far more rare."

Learning may not always be fun, but kids need to know it's worth the effort.

Students who receive good grades for mediocre work tend to learn and earn less in the long run.

Black fourth-graders in Mississippi, one of our poorest states, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be proficient in reading as black students in California.

Academic learning isn't obsolete, even in "the age of AI."

The "Portrait of a Graduate" fad is likely to be "so vague and insipid that they create a permission structure for schools to prioritize most everything except academics and to excuse themselves when they fail at their responsibility to teach even basic literacy and numeracy,"

Worried about AI and college costs, young workers are pursuing jobs in the skilled trades.

Cleveland needs to close small, high-cost schools -- even the "pockets of excellence" -- to fund programs for all students, says the school district chief.

The world offers "beauty, progress and opportunity," not just "hardship and injustice."

Corporate blather won't restore faith in higher education, argues an English professor whose department may be merged into Human Narratives and Creative Expression.

"Comprehensive" will mean "completely lousy" in Illinois' new school accountability system.

Why settle for 21st-century edubabble when you can sell 22nd-century skills?

As teachers try to get students to "sit down, focus and learn," researchers priorities are equity, justice and identity.

Doing what works -- and avoiding fads and ideology -- would improve learning dramatically.

The idea of a student being "Nature Intelligent" is so much more palatable than "Unable to Do Trigonometry Intelligent."

Teachers and professors are told to "meet students where they are," but not how to get them where they need to be.

One third of students in mostly black districts aren't enrolled in traditional public schools.

Students who say "no" to AI are willing work harder to build writing and thinking skills -- and to maintain their self-respect and their "humanity."