She sent her daughter to a low-performing school, thinking she could make it better. It didn't work.

Graduation standards are weak. The state graduation exam is gone. SAT and ACT tests are optional. New Jersey's flagship university is adding low-level math classes.

It's not fair to expect students to pass academic tests, says a New York Regent, because fish can't climb trees.

AI cheating has robbed homework of its value.

New York is headed for disaster: Fuzzy graduation standards -- with no tests -- will set students up to fail.

Has the AP exam been "dumbed down" -- or are scores now a better match with college expectations?

Do Alpha students really learn 2.6 times faster in two hours a day? We need independent validation?

Test-blind college admissions has failed at the University of California. The Regents should restore SAT/ACT scores.

Failing a student is nearly impossible, say Philadelphia teachers. Principals discourage or ban F's and change grades.

Challenging classes for high achievers is very popular with Oregon voters -- but half of districts do nothing for gifted students.

Alpha, which claims students can excel with two hours a day of AI-powered learning, hopes to reach 1 million students.

Playing a video game -- with occasional math or vocabulary questions -- now counts as homework.

Can schools teach creativity, collaboration and critical thinking -- and measure it?

Forty percent of Philadelphia students qualify as "graduation-ready" by passing easy online classes in low-value skills.

More students are completing high school, but fewer are prepared to learn a skilled trade or pass a college math class.

Fads drive education. Research on what works is shaky, and consultants always have buzzy new ideas.

Students should memorize and recite poetry. It will give them ownership of their culture -- and help think think.

Will Chicago's dual-credit students be prepared to succeed in college?

What's a diploma worth in Massachusetts? Without a state test requirement, graduation rates -- but not test scores -- are way up in Boston.

Bring back textbooks , write Sophie Winkleman and David James in The Spectator . In Britain, as in the U.S., schools have embraced online learning and "one-to-one" devices, they write. Students swipe and scroll between tabs, "some educational and some not," while the teacher tries to keep the class "on task." Textbooks "are slandered as boring compared with online resources, which offer video clips, audio, 3D modelling and other seductive 21st-century ‘essentials’," they writ