(This is the first post in a four-part series.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are other ways than standardized-test scores to evaluate the effectiveness of schools? Standardized-test scores ...

The Syracuse City School District has again ranked near the bottom in state tests, but student proficiency is slowly ...

Deborah Rose, an adjunct instructor for the High School Equivalency Test in DMACC Newton Campus, has been teaching the ...

New studies find student performance fell across southern California and a large Florida county amid the surge in immigration enforcement.

When 10-year-old Cadence Silas admits she’s bored in class and says the teacher spends too much time trying to control the kids, her dad’s jaw tightens and he looks down for a quick moment. Charles ...

New Jersey education officials had some rare positive news when they released statewide standardized test scores this week.

The Trump administration’s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the date of Schneider’s 2013 Commentary and the school rating Somerville received. It also erroneously suggested he had more than one child. Jack ...

Unqualified applicants passed their road tests and received driver’s licenses because the owner of a Massachusetts driving school bribed the examiner, according to federal authorities. Some of the ...

Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, may be lurking in Ohio classrooms. But not every district tests for it.

IF YOU’RE OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MIGHT HAVE GROWN UP DRINKING WATER OUT OF THIS, BUT THESE DAYS YOUR CHILD MAY BE BRINGING A WATER BOTTLE LIKE THIS ONE TO SCHOOL. AND AS NEW STATEWIDE LEAD TESTING DATA ...