I'm a fan of the Apple+ series For All Mankind, which imagines an alternative reality in which the Soviet Union reaches the moon first,...

Linda Brown, who trained hundreds of charter leaders as leader of (Building Excellent Schools (ES), has died at the age of 81. Many of...

Success Academy charter students are the best in New York state in math, third best in English Language Arts (ELA) among schools with 95+...

The Zeitgeist, it is a changing. First, the New York Times ran David Leonhardt's defense of college admissions tests as a way to...

Finland! Finland! Finland! Twenty years ago, Finland's top-of-the-world PISA scores made it "the most widely celebrated and imitated...

Students at Brooklyn's James Madison High School "were kicked out of the classroom" today "to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants" from a...

Tracking down absent students and persuading their parents to get them to school every day is a booming business, writes Alex MacGillis...

Want equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...

For more than a century, New York students have taken Regents exams in multiple subjects to prove they were ready for college-level work,...

Black students are "disastrously behind" in math, reading and attendance in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), writes Heather...

Cognitive ability no longer is linked strongly to years of education, concludes a Norwegian study published in published in Scientific...

California's public schools have "lost" 87,000 students, according to an analysis by Thomas Dee, a Stanford professor, and AP. An...

Grades are up and tests are out. "More states could abandon high school exit exams as a graduation requirement, writes Libby Stanford in...

Students don't have real discussions in his AP English class, writes 11th-grader Zach Gottlieb in the Los Angeles Times. Every one knows...

West Virginia University is cutting majors and firing professors to fulfill the utilitarian vision of its president, E. Gordon Gee,...

How do get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! It's the same for math, writes Holly Korbey on Edutopia. “They are considered dirty words, but...

There are no fast learners, according to new research, writes Hechinger's Jill Barshay. Learning rates are remarkably similar --...

Seventy-nine percent of parents say their child is receiving mostly B's or better, and 89 percent believe their child is at or above...

"Handwringing" about grade inflation is "inflated," suggests Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post. She offers a piece by Jack Schneider...

New York students will be able to graduate from high school without passing Regents exams, the state education department proposes....