Notable: Teaching to the Test

But what if the test expects you to spout things that simply aren’t true in order to pass?

The new Florida exit exam standards are [...]

Mosque Trip in Boston

Still sending your kids to public schools?

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The Cost of Public Education

Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as [...]

The Value of a College Degree

As the warm glow of college commencement ceremonies gives way to the cold reality of today’s job market, this year’s graduates and their anxious parents [...]

What Do They Teach?

Take a look at these documents from a Texas classroom, if you want to really know.

Read them carefully… Do you notice anything wrong [...]

Teacher’s Teachers Fail

It sounded like a great idea: Stanford education professors would create a model school to show how to educate low-income Hispanic and black students.

Or, [...]

Send in the Clones

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required for the full article) captured this bit of testimony before the Supreme Court:

The dean is Leo Martinez of [...]

Would More Money Really Help?

The chart to the left, found over at Heritage, shows the number of students per teacher in the public school system since 1950. The remarkable [...]

It's for the Kids

A Seattle mother is irate after she said her 15-year-old daughter’s school arranged an abortion for her daughter without her knowledge.

The mother, whose name [...]

Centered on Government

The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an effort to avoid going broke. The action [...]