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A new round of opposition to planned changes in how high schools teach U.S. history is conjuring up its own echoes of the past....
New approaches to dropout prevention was the focus of a discussion panel at EWA’s 67th National Seminar, held in May at Vanderbilt University in Chicago....
PolitiFact fact-checked an Internet meme claim that a summer of minimum wage work in 1978 would generate enough income to pay for one year of university tuition...
Are fourth graders computer-savvy enough to have their writing skills measured in an online assessment?...
Over the years, studying abroad has become a popular part of the undergraduate college experience....
State takeover districts have been lauded as the savior of children left behind by inept local school boards — and derided as anti-democratic fireworks shows ...
The July 21 issue of The New Yorker takes us deep inside the Atlanta cheating scandal, and through the lucid reporting of Rachel Aviv, we get to know some of th...
With the Vergara v. California lawsuit shining a spotlight on teacher tenure, it’s easy to forget that for many places, tenure isn’t the issue. The bigger p...
In 2004, a group of four undocumented immigrant Latino high school students accomplished an astonishing achievement, they defeated students from the prestigious...
