The number of eighth graders reading at grade level or above in New York State climbed impressively this year for the first time since 1999, when the state adopted tougher educational standards and its modern testing system, according to scores released yesterday from the annual statewide English exam...
Four years after Mayor Bloomberg's takeover of the city's public schools, roughly half of the city's pupils aren't meeting standards on standardized reading tests...
School voucher activists raise their voices with protests and rallies, as Utahns will decide on the fate of a school voucher program with a vote in November.
The outpouring of vitriol that greeted plans for the Kahlil Gibran Academy, a public school focusing on Arabic language, culture and history did not surprise its founding principal, Debbie Almontaser...
Former Gov. Jeb Bush says he wishes he had done a better job of convincing educators and parents that the FCAT exam and other education reforms were necessary and would improve Florida schools...
The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said that the "asumption of responsibility by government for educating all children does not require that schooling be delivered in government institutions just as government food stamps need not be spent in government grocery stores..."