Education News

Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary.

Community High School District 155 announced Ryan O'Toole, of Crystal Lake, earned salutatorian honors for the Class of 2013 at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Educators everywhere are all tested out; however, it is worse in some states than others where they are forced to administer field tests. "Field tests" are instruments of mass instruction, usually given after other standardized testing and state testing is completed.

Few Montgomery County Public Schools students enrolled in high school math courses made high marks on final exams last semester, data released by the school district last week showed.

Pictured from left: superintendent Denia Reese, guidance counselor Dianne Hale, STAR teacher Mark Pierce, STAR student Brenna Schroder, STAR parents Kelly and Jeff Schroder and Ringgold Rotarian Randall Peters.

Jesse Hagopian , is a high school history teacher and union rep at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington.

If you're having second thoughts about heading to law school, outline your career goals to decide if it's the right move.

Last week, many members of the Rhode Island business community and many school committees sent letters to Governor Chafee in support of Education Commissioner Gist.

HAVING SHARPENED THEIR #2 PENCILS, my teenage daughters are about to take this spring's battery of standardized tests, leaving me to wonder what these tests mean - about their education, about the culture of college my husband and I are preparing them for, about American values.

Fighting cancer her entire life, Lyndsey Staub hopes to graduate from Dixie Hollins High School in a few days if she can make up her last bit of work.

David A. Pickler, President of the National School Boards Association and member of Tennessee's Shelby County Board of Education, was featured in The Washington Post' s Answer Sheet today discussing the failures of school voucher schemes and the impact of the recent Louisiana Supreme Court ruling deeming their state's school voucher program ... (more)

"Unfunded mandate." Pick two words that New Hampshire taxpayers detest, and "unfunded mandate" would be high on the list.

The state Senate released a $20.58 billion proposed budget late Sunday night that would eliminate class-size limits for the youngest public school students, move the State Bureau of Investigation to a department the governor's appointee controls and puts various environmental programs under the control of a state agency.

That's one of the state-mandated goalposts local schools are seeing approach as the school year wraps up in Cedar Grove and Verona .

West Virginia education officials announced today that the state Department of Education has been granted a waiver from the federal requirements of the law commonly known as No Child Left Behind.

The 2013 Pathfinder winners. Front row, left to right, Shanon Scully, Louis Brion, Libby Koolik, Carey MacDonald and Coleen Chan.

Everyone's got a neat idea for how to fix colleges. There are plans to give every student a laptop.

It's a funding system that pays schools for failure. The court's decision rested on the voucher program's diversion of funds that are supposed to be allotted to public schools on a per-pupil basis.

Parkway Central High junior Zachary Heiman is in some elite company after earning a perfect score on the ACT exam.

HOPE Christian High School has set an excellent example of education that is making a significant difference in the lives of Milwaukee's young men and women.