Mississippi should be a role model for the nation in how to teach reading, along with Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, but old stereotypes persist.

Merit pay raised students' scores in Dallas. Now Superintendent Mike Miles is bringing it to Houston.

Tennessee districts that analyze student data and reteach topics students didn't understand are boosting middle-school math scores.

"Free" tuition has boosted two-year graduation rates in Tennessee, but low-income students need more help to complete a degree.

Help struggling readers starting in kindergarten, says Tennessee's school board in a resolution. If they need more time to...

Sixty percent of Tennessee third graders faced the prospect of repeating the grade, but only 1.2 percent failed to get past the "reading...

All California high school students should be enrolled in community college courses, by default, starting in ninth grade, says Sonya...

Tennessee's focus on tutoring and summer school is paying off, report Marta W. Aldrich and Kae Petrin on Chalkbeat. Scores are up for the...

This will be the last year of Covid-funded summer school before the pandemic relief money runs out, writes Jo Napolitano on The 74. Some...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would ban staging "sexually explicit shows in front of children," reports William...

Thousands of Tennessee children will be going to summer school -- or repeating third grade, reports Chalkbeat's Marta W. Aldrich. Sixty...

A good student at a good high school, Grayson Hart "believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life," until...

Memphis high schools are teaching reading skills to teenagers who didn't learn to read well in the early grades, reports Sarah Mervosh in...