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The celebrations and self-congratulations are real; unfortunately, the data shows that Newark’s educational successes don’t measure up

What the phrase really means, a Minnesota teacher of the year writes, is that teachers better not change anything to […]

What if I told you that 41 percent of the bridges that you drive across are faulty? Or, 41 percent of hospitals closest to you were deemed failing? Imagine if financial regulators found that 41 percent of banks regularly mismanage personal accounts. If any of these hypotheticals were true, you would protest loudly and demand …

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The board also voted to direct the school district to end a long-running legal defense of the program.

A month ago, the California Department of Education released 2016-17 data on suspension rates. When they were released, several news outlets looked at the aggregate data and noted that problems sti…

Despite what Betsy DeVos may tell you.

Public investment in K-12 schools — crucial for communities to thrive and the U.S. economy to offer broad opportunity — has declined dramatically in a number of states over the last decade.

What would you think if you saw a mother hovering over her two month old infant drilling her on vowel sounds? Or how ...

Matthew A. Kraft -- an Assistant Professor of Education & Economics at Brown University and co-author of an article published in Educational Researcher on Revisiting The Widget Effect (

(National) Education Politics “Assessing Betsy DeVos’ Rollback on Disability Rights” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry.

He's going to spend more than $1.7 billion, on top of the several billion he has already spent. Here's the plan.

Teachers in Boston are all aglow over personalized learning—teaching students how to learn on digital devices. But there’s something strange about learning how to help computers do a teacher’…

Six years ago the Tennessee Achievement School District launched with a five year mission to, in their words, ‘catapult’ schools in the bottom 5% into the top 25%. Tennessee won $500 mi…

It comes as no surprise that in New York the SUNY Charter School committee voted to approve its controversial regulations that will allow SUNY authorized charter schools to certify their own teache…

There’s a delightful old story about Winnie the Pooh and Piglet where they are hunting a Woozle. As some of us well know, having read these classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories as children, Woozles are …

Schools touted by Betsy DeVos aggressively recruit at-risk students, offer barebones courses, and boost revenue by inflating enrollment.

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