(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 ...

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

The proposed “framework” had seven elements, including required courses, senior projects or portfolios, and financial ...

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

HILLARY: WITH FEAR OF A POST THANKSGIVING COVID 19 CASE SURGE, UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE IN RIVER HILLS IS TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF THE SURGE BY DOING ASYMPTOMATIC TESTING BEFORE COMING BACK TO ...

Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N. Figlio and Umut Özek find in The Impact ...

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 ...

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

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 ...