In A Tale of Two High Schools, Renu Mukherjee, a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, looks at San Francisco's Lowell High School,...

The "exodus of families from traditional public-school districts is a warning message," writes Jessica Levin on EdPost. Focusing...

The pandemic -- and the response to the pandemic -- was a disaster for students. We knew that, but now we really know that. Reading and...

In the ten years before the pandemic, high achievers did better in math and reading while everyone else slid, writes Fordham's Michael...

High school grade inflation accelerated during the pandemic, according to ACT. “The findings echo a recent federal study that also showed...

Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...

I was well into this article before I realized that the British “tuition” must be the American “tutoring”. An east London secondary...

Grade inflation is expanding, especially at high schools with affluent students, concludes a Fordham’s newest study, Grade Inflation in...

Does a third-grade teacher need to know high school math? asks Ann Doss Helms in the Charlotte Observer. “Almost 2,400 North Carolina...

Schools serving mainly poor and minority students end up teaching the basic skills and schools serving more advantaged students, knowing...

You want my kids to go to your schools? Show me they’re learning, writes Citizen Stewart in a defense of test-based accountability....

The ability to write cogently, quickly and under pressure, helped me get into and through college. However, a growing list of selective...

“It’s no use if my kids are on the school’s honor roll if they are not proficient in reading and math,” a mother tells LA School Report’s...

Pearson’s “automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year,” she...

Well, it looks like tracking to me. And I’m fine with it. Jonathan Plucker, a Johns Hopkins education professor, sees “a subtle shift” in...

New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...

classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...

Students defended their Providence, Rhode Island middle school in a panel discussion sponsored by Generation Citizen, reports the...

Many believe “extrinsic” motivators, such as incentives,  “decrease student effort by eroding students’ intrinsic desire to learn,” they...

At colleges that don’t require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, students admitted on grades alone are just as likely to graduate...