When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...

High school teachers in Casa Grande, Arizona are “revisiting” failing grades to enable more students to graduate. #failure #gradechanges...

Our education system fails most students, argues Oren Cass, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of How the Other Half Learns. ...

Requiring college-prep coursework to earn a diploma is a mistake, writes Russell Rumberger on EdSource. An emeritus University of...

Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016,...

Over at my own blog I posted about a Nebraska student who was told she could not wear an army sash over her gown at her high school...

The only way to award honest high school diplomas is to give students a choice of meeting basic, career-ready or university-ready...

Washington, D.C. public schools were held up as a model of “expert driven” education reform, writes Max C. Eden and Lindsey Burke on...

Every senior was admitted to college at Washington D.C.’s low-performing Ballou High in June. Most had applied to the open-admission...

Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating from high school on time, writes Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie...

College students who took at least one college course in high school were more likely to earn a four-year degree than similar students...

University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor...

But many students won’t make it, legislators feared. Now schools are hiring “interventionists” and scrambling to put weak students on...

The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...

Graduation rates are up in Los Angeles Unified. But standards are down, writes Conor Williams. The LA Unified board lowered graduation...

Teachers of color are the latest magic bullet for our education woes, writes Alina Adams on New York School Talk. Black teachers...

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Online “credit-recovery” programs are raising high school graduation rates, writes Zoë Kirsch as part of a Slate series called The Big...

Integrated schools won’t close the racial achievement gap, argues Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II in an Education Week commentary. Black...

Young people go to college to search for him/her/xe-self, explore, experiment, discover a passion . . . Or perhaps to retake algebra,...