School News

By botching the release of public data about teacher effectiveness rating, the Florida Department of Education has revealed a dirty secret about how the sausage is made.

The White House's college "scorecard" was examined by a few college-bound teenagers, and it confused them. The government needs to redesign the thing so it will actually help the kids it's trying to help.

The number of students, including minority students, taking Advanced Placement tests and passing them with high enough scores to be potentially eligible for college credit is increasing.

A state judge in Louisiana ruled that Gov. Bobby Jindal's trademark school reform legislation, a voucher program that sends public tax dollars to private and parochial schools, is unconstitutional in the way it diverts funds away from the state funding formula.

Election Day handed corporate education reformers a few defeats and, in Maryland, announced that immigration reform was tied to education success.

An editorial about the presidential election and what we think it could mean for our schools and the education of America's children.

The Broad Foundation Prize for Urban Education was awarded to Miami-Dade County Public Schools earlier this month, with the hopes that the district will serve as a model for narrowing certain achievement gaps, increasing the high school graduation rates, especially among minority students, and improving the performance of minority students on statewide standardized exams.

A New York Times article examines the use of psychotropic drugs to deal with ADHD-like symptoms in children, whether or not they have the disorder.

A Belleville West High School math teacher allegedly had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student under 17, and now the student is claiming in a lawsuit that the school failed to prevent the encounter.