Are charter school networks really improving their students’ academic achievement?...

In recent years, reformers have sought to improve our failing public education system by tightening and standardizing the measures we use to judge performance....

Experts gathered to discuss how to decrease the Black/white achievement gap between U.S. students, suggesting solutions be based on scientific study and not heartfelt platitudes, reports The New York Times...

Barack Obama, who apparently believes that the only way to get beyond race is by constantly evoking it, said Tuesday that while “we do not need to recite…the history of racial injustice” it nonetheless festers in just about everything Americans do...