The reality of charter schools
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True or false? Charter schools are not always the silver bullet for boosting student achievement that some politicians and educators have portrayed them to be.
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Nearly seven months have passed since the Supreme Court heard arguments about public school integration plans. A decision, it seems, is finally at hand.
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States gauge progress of Bush's education reforms - and debate what it really shows.
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America&#39;s students are back to school, but it seems they have yet to learn their lesson about file sharing. Despite the efforts of digital music services, record
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun  Jan. 31--Two days. Two deals. One town: Baltimore. One industry: for-profit education. One outcome: Public shareholders are left behind.   Corporate siblings Laureate Education and Educate Inc.
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A clash at a charter school in New York has exposed fault lines of wealth and class that are perhaps inevitable as philanthropists increasingly invest in public education.
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Underprivileged students in charter schools do worse in reading and math than their peers in mainstream schools, but children of the same race or ethnicity do as well in either type of school, according to a limited government study of fourth-graders.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom.
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Bridgewater and Raynham share a regional school system, but they do not always share an education vision. And once again, their uneasy partnership is being put to a test.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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Margaret Spellings has deep Texas roots in educational reform, the model for 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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WASHINGTON -- The part of the American dream that says a man's children will be better off than he was, has become a dream, not reality, according to an analysis of Census data released yesterday.
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The credit crisis appears to be knocking on the doors of commercial educators.
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Chicago Tribune - Anyone paying attention would notice something odd about the elementary schools here. What the government and parents are awakening to--belatedly--is the danger inherent in what they see.
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How one state is re-engineering its schools for the new century