The new line of attack against charter schools is that they have failed to achieve their original mission. In her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch joins ...

Following Hurricane Katrina, a newly enacted state law identified schools that scored below the state average as failing and subject to takeover. The state took over 107 of New Orleans’ 120 public ...

In 2012, Los Angeles Unified School District set up an experiment. It offered parents in some parts of the city a new option: Instead of automatically sending their middle schoolers to their ...

Oct. 9—Science is an extension of a child's everyday world, Peterson Elementary Principal Tracy Ketchum told the Kalispell Public Schools board of trustees in September. "Children have a natural ...

It’s a Monday afternoon, and a sixth grade math class is humming with discussion as students shift and wiggle next to whiteboards set around the room. They’re trying to solve a math problem, and for a ...