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To do their jobs, education reporters on the federal beat depend on access to congressional staffers. But what happens when those staffers want anonymity while ...

Finding enough Spanish-speaking teachers can be challenging enough for school districts. So filling bilingual needs among the counseling ranks may be an expensi...

The Wallace Foundation’s new report (The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching …) distills more than a decade of research into five...

I’ve been writing The Educated Reporter blog for about 18 months now, and nothing I’ve written has come close to drawing as much response, discussion and de...

For the seventh consecutive year, activists are fighting for passage of legislation that would provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students atten...

Spending time in schools and classrooms can be one of the best ways for novice reporters to dive into the education beat, and for veterans to find fresh inspira...

For the new Frontline documentary, veteran education journalist John Merrow (Learning Matters) was granted unprecedented access to Michelle Rhee during her turb...

The Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Conn., the site of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, is likely to remain closed indefinitely....

This report, produced jointly by Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, offers a nationwide look at colleges’ use of online learning...