A. J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, tells us that California’s Second District Court of Appeal was correct to rule last week that parents without teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home — i.e., that most of the 166,000-odd homeschooled students in the Golden State could be truants and their parents may be violating the law...

Education won’t be any more prominent in the general-election campaign than it has been during the presidential primaries, said two of the three panelists at a symposium at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington last week...

A major, paradigm-shifting trend that is a central focus of a new history of American education will ring a bell with New Yorkers: the growing tendency of outsider non-educators — a billionaire media mogul, say, or an antitrust lawyer — to butt their heads into the formerly marmish enterprise of public schooling and demand radical change...

Reducing class sizes—a popular policy among parents, teachers, and lawmakers—has long been viewed as a way to increase student achievement...