At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six-year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report.
Members of the Hawaii State Teachers Association are set to vote this week on a plan that would eliminate their state's 21 remaining teacher furlough days for this school year and next.
While most teachers believe in the importance of holding high expectations for students, many appear to fall short of doing so in practice, according to a nationwide survey.
Representatives of the 16 states that are finalists in the $4 billion Race to the Top competition faced panels of judges in Washington earlier this month.
A new survey gives the K-12 education system poor grades for “engaging and nurturing” minorities and girls in the pursuit of careers in the STEM fields.
Revelations that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools has raised questions.
A federal appeals panel has reversed a July 2008 ruling by a U.S. district court that Texas must revamp its programs for secondary English-language learners because they violate federal law.
Police removed protesters last week from a heated Wake County, N.C., school board meeting in which board members voted to abandon a student-assignment and diversity policy with roots dating back three decades.
Bill Coplin and Adam Patrick propose three changes that they say could help any high school become a dynamic hub of activities that prepare students for college and careers.
There's never a school in which every teacher is incompetent, argues Paul Kelleher, so wholesale dismissals risk losing valuable experience and know-how.
While many parents took formal routes to land their children in the best schools, the well-connected also sought help through a shadowy appeals system.
Former schools chief Arne Duncan tracked admissions requests, creating a lengthy, detailed compilation of politicians and influential business people who intervened on behalf of children.
The transformation of schooling as we know it is inevitable, writes Lisa Petrides, but it will have to be led by those who experience daily the problems of the current system.
Schools will need "a form of shock treatment" to break the cycle of mismanagement in the design and delivery of classroom instruction, writes Kalman R. Hettleman.
Jonathan Zimmerman asks whether the monthlong celebration has become an empty ritual that "patronizes black Americans, all in the guise of uplifting them."
This year, the Technology Counts data section shifts its focus from a state to a district lens, offering a host of charts showing how local schools and districts are using standard and emerging technologies to improve education.
Much like the shifting landscape in K-12 educational technology, this year's Technology Counts is changing to address the challenges of covering schools in the digital age.
David Holahan recounts his brief meeting with James D. Watson, a co-discoverer of DNA, and gives a fleeting glance of the often-quirky nature of scientific creativity.
The governing body for New Jersey high school athletics is proposing a regulation requiring those who sustain a concussion to get a certified physician’s approval to return to game action.
Teachers with bachelor's degrees and specialized training in early education are more effective than those educators who don’t hold such credentials, says a report on early-childhood education and teacher preparation.
The San Francisco court upheld the use of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
In a case being watched by some in education, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to step into a debate over whether extensive background checks for federal contractors violate an individual's "informational privacy."
Parents would be authorized to restructure the operations of a dozen Mississippi public schools that are failing or at risk of failing, under a plan that passed the state’s House last week.
The ACLU of Mississippi last week filed a federal lawsuit after a school district canceled an upcoming high school prom when a lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
State officials must respond to allegations that the state’s proposed K-12 budget falls short of meeting the required “maintenance of effort” provision in the federal economic-stimulus law.
Children's advocates in North Carolina are seeking a spanking ban on students with disabilities after losing political tussles over corporal punishment in public schools in recent years.
Lawyers agreed to freeze the case for 30 days while computer experts determine how often the school activated the laptop cameras and how many students were photographed.
Twenty-two Democratic senators want the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $3 billion in new competitive-grants.
As a region, the South has become a national leader over the past decade in providing support for prekindergarten programs, says a new study by the Southern Education Foundation.
Teachers in two districts overwhelmingly support using factors in addition to seniority to determine who should be laid off, according to a survey by the New Teacher Project.
U.S. teachers are more interested in collaborating and getting support from administrators to promote student achievement than in boosting their paychecks, according to a survey of more than 40,000 K-12 teachers.
When it comes to advising students on college and career choices, a majority of young adults with college experience rate their high school guidance counselors as “fair” or “poor,” says a survey released last week.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore says it will close 13 schools in that city at the end of the current school year, the closings will displace 2,152 students.
Ann Bradley, a longtime reporter and editor for Education Week, has been hired by the American Federation of Teachers to serve as interim director of the unions $3.3 million Innovation Fund.
Two employees at a school in north Houston have been reassigned over allegations of cheating in preparations for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test.
The Mississippi Senate has voted to give school districts the option of keeping children in class five fewer days for each of the next two academic years.
A bill that would authorize the federal government to regulate the use of restraints and seclusion in schools moved a step closer to becoming law last week.
A parent has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the DeKalb County, Ga., schools, alleging discrimination against black students in the district’s International Baccalaureate program.
The average salary and benefits of Illinois’ top school executives grew 4.1 percent last year, about 10 times faster than raises enjoyed by other wage earners in the Chicago metropolitan area, according to state data.
In its first blueprint for educational technology, the Obama administration cites a host of digital-learning approaches it says will make schools better.
Effective practices focused on student outcomes are the key to middle-grades success, write Trish Williams and Michael Kirst, not a particular grade configuration or curriculum.
A new report describes the New York City school system’s efforts since 2002 to close large comprehensive high schools and replace them with 200 new small schools.
Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul teacher-tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue.
On average, fewer than half of the American Indian and Alaska Native students in 12 states graduate from high school, says a report released last month.
Living in poverty before age 5 can have a critical impact on children’s earnings trajectories 30 years later, according to a study in the January/February issue of Child Development.
Not all low-performing schools are alike, says a new report that offers a framework to help educators, policymakers, and advocates direct attention to the schools that need it most.
But the drive by some schools to offer the college-level classes to more and younger students has raised some eyebrows and led to worries that the standards for the program might be lowered.
The ads—produced by the Connecticut Education Association—show teachers hard at work preparing for class, meeting with parents and often putting in many hours behind the scenes.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $15 million to a new Harvard University program designed to help build the capacity of state and school district leaders to analyze and use data for improving student achievement.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to take up an issue stemming from the case of a California teacher and her husband who were wrongfully accused of child abuse.
The Philadelphia school district has transferred some students involved in attacking Asian students at South Philadelphia High School to disciplinary programs or other schools.
Los Angeles’ board of education has voted to reject a number of applications from charter school operators, choosing instead to hand control of nearly 30 schools to nonprofit educational groups.
The union is filing a complaint against Gov. Linda Lingle, claiming that she didn’t fulfill a commitment to use the state’s savings to end school closures because of furloughs.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether a Massachusetts special-needs school violates federal disability laws by disciplining students with electric-shock therapy.
As a Colorado math teacher was being hailed a hero for tackling a school shooter, there was growing evidence the school missed a chance to head off the attack.
Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Unified School District and California last week, claiming thousands of teacher layoffs will deprive inner-city children of their right to an education.
To deal with the motivational decline of adolescents, write psychologists Joseph P. Allen and Claudia W. Allen, teachers have to understand the teenage brain.
About 800,000 high school seniors took at least one test last year in what the College Board calls one of the most expensive testing programs in the world to operate.