The core standards unveiled Wednesday would establish a national bar for what students in any state should know when they graduate from high school. But some states are wary...

Florida Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a merit pay plan passed by the state legislature...But is there a substantive case to be made for keeping the current system of recruiting and compensating teachers...?

About two dozen states are going back to Washington for another shot at billions in education grants under the "Race to the Top" program, but at least nine others with more than 7 million children are opting out of trying a second time...

["Saving Schools"] is an analytical history of key American school reformers, from Mann to John Dewey to Martin Luther King Jr. to Al Shanker to Bill Bennett to James S. Coleman. I knew about those guys, but the last chapter discussed someone I never heard of, Julie Young, chief executive officer of the Florida Virtual School...