Education News

Gov. Jay Nixon has signed the first part of a memorandum developing a common core of educational standards in English and math at the K-12 level, uniting Missouri with the 46 other states already on board with such standards.

Colorado education officials have agreed to audit a Pueblo-based network of charter schools amid allegations of cheating on standardized tests and questions about salaries paid to top administrators.

America's expenditure in providing free quality education is steadily rising - while the quality of public-school education appears to deteriorate at an alarming pace.

Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of former boxing champion and Managua mayor Alexis Arguello.

By Melissa M. Forbis, Guest Contributor "There is no more apt theme for this conference at this fear-driven moment in political history." With those words, journalist and scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr.

A 35-year-old man charged after a 14-year-old girl reported an abduction and sexual assault in North Myrtle Beach is registered as a sex offender in North Carolina and spent 11 years in jail after pleading guilty to robbing and raping a woman in 1996.

New Jersey education officials say more school districts are meeting requirements under federal school laws.

Supporters often say school vouchers are lifelines to low-income students trapped in subpar public schools.

Columbia, MO - infoZine - When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success.

Ken James, who is resigning effective today as Arkansas' education commissioner, will become executive vice president and chief operating officer for America's Choice, a national school improvement company based in Washington, D.C. James, 58, will be in charge of the day-to-day operation of the company that provides instructional design services, ...

Mathematics education in West Virginia public schools seems to be improving, to judge by some standardized test results.

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Arizona's growing deficit will have an impact on education, but compared with other state services, education fares well, Tom Horne, Arizona school superintendent, assured a Yuma audience Thursday.

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CLEVELAND -- Rap is and always will be a passion for Darryl McDaniels. Likewise, he says, is education.

Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman .

Texas has become the first state to have special education students' standardized test scores counted in federal school accountability ratings, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

It's about equity . Our Indiana schools create different ends for different children.

Though such statistics are not universally kept, some local school districts can count on one hand the number of high school graduates going on to four-year colleges.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation have filed criminal charges against a Huntingdon County woman accused of using her position as a high school secretary to alter grades and test scores in order to enhance her daughter's class standing.