Educated Reporter

Sit-ins were the preferred avenue of protest on college campuses during the 1960s and 1970s. Students protested in support of civil rights and opposition to war...

Trey Mack, a doctoral candidate in astronomy, didn’t believe he could land a spot in a great master’s program, let alone a doctoral program, until a friend ...

A decade ago in Las Vegas – where I spent eight years as an education beat reporter – the school district was a boom town of soaring student enrollment, bre...

This week in Tennessee’s Music City, journalists were urged to hold the line—as “the referee and truth teller in this fight we are having in education”...

PISA was created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to provide a comparable measure of public education systems around the glob...

There’s a clear link between effective campus leadership and effective teaching. But it’s one that doesn’t get explored often in education reporting....

Reading and math scores for the nation’s 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education ...

Since 2005, U.S. high school seniors have made slight gains in both their reading and math skills, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Educ...

Amid the excitement over the news this week that the nation’s high school graduation rate has hit 80 percent for the first time, some important questions stil...