Last week, the Los Angeles school board had the opportunity to fundamentally improve its lowest-performing public schools by transferring them to successful charter-school operators. Instead, the board handed the schools ...

In what could prove a turning point in favor of education reform, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten came out in favor of considering student performance on standardized tests ...

While everyone else was putting the final touches on their Thanksgiving-dinner grocery lists, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was picking a fight with his state legislature and ...

A dangerous idea has been gaining momentum within education-reform circles: Too many young people are going to college. Since Charles Murray took up this line in a series of Wall ...

In 2007, only 57 percent of fourth graders in New York City and 44 percent of fourth graders in Chicago could claim even basic literacy according to the National Assessment ...

Imagine that an ordinary American family — let’s call them the van Winkles — fell asleep in 1959 and awoke today. Technology would have changed much of their daily lives. ...

President Obama: How long have you been teaching? Philadelphia teacher: Fifteen years. President Obama: Fifteen years. Okay, so you’ve been teaching for 15 years. I’ll bet you’ll admit that during those 15 ...

Thanks to the financial crisis, every state in the union is trying to think of ways to save money without dramatically reducing government services. The dilemma is most painful in public ...