Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...

Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under...

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

High school rigor is often a facade, writes Natalie Wexler on Forbes. It’s a “Potemkin village.” High school graduates in the class of...

Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh.  It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...

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

Nobody takes algebra in eighth grade in San Francisco’s district schools any more, reports Ed Week‘s Stephen Sawchuk. In the name of...

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

Our competitors do a better job of enabling students to gain more education than their parents, she writes. Once, public education was...

Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...

Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...

Open the doors to advanced classes to a wide range of students, argues AP social studies teacher Nate Bowling on EdWeek...

Teach Us All, a documentary on school integration, “troubles some activists,” writes Chalkbeat’s Christina Veiga. The movie highlights...

Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...

“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in  2013. Test scores are falling,...

Expanding access to AP classes is supposed to help disadvantaged students prepare for college, but pass rates are very low. Is expanding...

Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...

PISA4U, a “collaborative learning program for teachers and schools,” hopes to help schools improve. BASIS Schools, a national charter...

Tested a documentary about New York City eighth graders trying to qualify for elite public schools, will come out on DVD next month....

U.S. schools have a C average on Education Week‘s Quality Counts Report Card. There’s little change from last year in most categories....