Reward systems using incentives such as concert tickets or mp3 players are found to have stable and positive impacts on reading achievement according to Paying for A's, a new report released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University...

The American Association of University Women has long downplayed the school problems of boys, arguing instead that the education establishment victimizes girls, in what it calls an “unacknowledged tragedy.”...

Nearly four years after a front-page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize...

Mention Myron Lieberman's name to national education officials, and they'll probably say they haven't heard it in a while...