President Bush's brief allusion Monday night to the declining fortunes of America's inner-city private schools during his State of the Union speech was mainly about the fast-disappearing urban Catholic academies...

Serious research flaws underlie the findings of a high-profile study released this past fall on the impact of Milwaukee’s school choice programs, according to education researcher Martin R. West of Brown University...

When Catherine Osimo attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana in the 1960s, it was common to see Catholic nuns in their habits heading classrooms and teaching everything from religion to mathematics...

Thanks to heavy parent involvement and high test scores, Public School 321 in Park Slope, a yuppie neighborhood in Brooklyn, is considered a gem of New York City's public school system...