Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Department of Education has just approved a plan to pay poor kids to get higher test scores...

Ward Connerly, who has successfully led the campaigns in California (Proposition 209), Washington state and in Michigan to ban race and gender from consideration in public hiring, contracting and school admissions, is thinking about launching similar ballot initiatives in nine other states...

In an opinion piece in the New York Sun this week, Diane Ravitch charges that people too frequently blame teachers but neglect to consider the role of popular culture and a lack of student drive as culprits in American students' failure to compete globally...

Every year, Harvard University issues a report on how many female professors it has tried to hire, and how many women have accepted its offers...