America's educational advantage is quickly eroding, testified one of the world's foremost experts on comparing national school systems before a Senate...

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Read the article that everyone is talking about.  Elizabeth Green builds the case that great teachers aren't born, they're made, in her intriguin...

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Sam Dillon details for The New York Times the federal Department of Education's plan to bring a revitalized focus to civil rights enforcement. Click ...

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Michele McNeil and Lesli A. Maxwell detail for Education Week the 16 finalists in the national Race to the Top competition. Click here to read this a...

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Trish Williams and Michael Kirst report on key findings from their study of California middle schools in this excellent, detailed article.  They ...

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In the ever-exciting, ever-expanding field of brain research, the latest studies show that, while the older adult brain is less quick to pick up new t...

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Mark Schneider writes for Education Week about the discrepancies between some states' reported proficiency rates and their scores as tested by the NAE...

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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert details Deborah Kenny's expectations for the teachers and students in her three successful Harlem charter s...

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Future assessments, Stanley N. Rabinowitz writes, will include more flexibility, multiple measures of achievement, different roles for government, and...

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The Associated Press reports that "President Barack Obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the U.S. public education system, says ther...

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