Urban charter schools improve learning for disadvantaged minority students, and competition often improves nearby district schools.

Denver Public Schools improved -- a lot -- in part by closing bad schools and opening new ones.

College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.

Most people worry about college costs, but want their children to go to a two-year or four-year college.

Community colleges are starting more students in college-level classes, with remedial help on the side.

States are hiding pandemic learning loss by lowering the bar for "proficiency" on state tests.

Homeschooling surged during the pandemic, and continues to grow.

U.S. history teachers are using "digital sources and primary documents" rather than textbooks , according to a report by the American...

At Vertex Partnership Academies , a charter high school in the Bronx, students recite the Preamble to the Constitution every day, writes...

Tim Walz, a former social studies teacher who hopes to be vice president, said, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or...

Students won't understand what they read if they're not familiar with the Bible, mythology, history and literature.

When I was in school in the '60s, we read Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights , Great Expectations, Hard Times, Canterbury Tales, The...

"Intensive parenting" is driving parents crazy.

Students -- and teachers -- lost reasoning, memory and executive-function skills during the pandemic. Stress? Long Covid? Screens?

Chicago teachers say they were told to pass all migrant students, regardless of their academic skills.

Overwhelmed by the number of students with different needs, teachers tend to lower expectations, writes veteran teacher.

Special education numbers are up.

The one-teacher, one-classroom model is leaving teachers exhausted, isolated and ready to quit, according to a National Council on...

Elementary schoolers learn Mandarin from a teacher, while a middle-schooler reads up on Ray Charles and another studies the Titanic. ...

U.S.-born students learn more when their classmates are immigrants, says a new study.