The first U.S.-wide set of academic standards for schoolchildren may be adopted by half of all states this year, while President Barack Obama presses to overhaul the main law designed to hold accountable 100,000 public schools for their students’ achievement. . . .

Now that the Obama administration has unveiled its blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, attention is shifting to whether the proposal will win sufficient support from lawmakers, policymakers, and education advocates to assure passage. . . .

Opinions vary on whether stimulus funds have been a success in Terre Haute. . . .

The Obama administration will ask Congress to toss out the two-tiered pass/fail school rating system of the No Child Left Behind education law and replace it with one that labels schools one of three ways: high-performing, needs improvement or chronically low-performing, according to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. . . .