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Civil rights organizations in Nevada are raising concerns about the scant funding for English Language Learners attending the state’s public schools, and are ...
“The Promise of Preschool” is a documentary by education reporter John Merrow, the president of Learning Matters...
Demetrio Rodriguez played a pivotal role in the creation of what is known as the “Robin Hood” school funding system in Texas. He was the lead plaintiff in t...
Much attention has focused on achievement gaps among children from different demographic groups, and on teacher effectiveness as the chief in-school influence o...
Year 2060: Education Predictions, a YouTube video by Sal Khan, the founder of the KhanAcademy.org educational site, offers his perspectives on how a college e...
U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is considered the definitive source of education statistics...
A Florida scholarship program known as Bright Futures may soon no longer have such a sunny reputation...
The details of the indictment are stunning - teachers and school administrators allegedly engaged in a vast conspiracy, all for the sake of making Atlanta’s ...
How bad does a public school system need to be for the state to take over? Are low student test scores alone enough? And what is a realistic time frame for the ...