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When Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in 2005, much of the city’s infrastructure was washed away — including its public education system

How will the U.S. fare against other countries when the results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) are released Dec. 6?

In Massachusetts, a referendum on charter schools is drawing national attention. At issue is whether to raise the state cap on the number of independently operated, publicly funded campuses, and allow existing schools to boost enrollment

In many industries, innovation is the engine that pushes businesses toward success, but colleges and universities haven’t changed much in centuries

More colleges and universities are using information about students’ backgrounds and past experiences to stop bad academic habits before they begin. It’s called predictive analytics, and its potential has higher-education reformers excited

A majority of states have created some type of performance-based model that provides public colleges and universities with extra dollars for showing better results, like graduating more students