Education News

The wide-ranging education reform bill state Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto co-sponsored last year advanced a number of conservative priorities: merit pay for teachers, lower college tuition costs, and more flexibility for students in pursuing career education.

California lawmakers were absolutely right last fall to suspend our outdated standardized tests a year earlier than planned, allowing teachers, administrators and students to devote more time and energy to the new Common Core state standards.

Teenagers whining about getting out of bed for school in the morning are actually on to something.

TONIGHT ON NEWS 4... AN UPSTATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL TEACHER IS IN JAIL. ACCUSED OF SEX CRIMES ... AGAINST A 12 YEAR OLD.

There seems to be no end to the expertise that America's billionaires possess and are happy to share with the rest of us about public education.

One area that may get more attention in the coming months is the Office of the State Superintendent of Education - the city agency responsible for monitoring special-education compliance, administering standardized tests and funneling federal grants to schools.

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They're revising the SAT again, and you know what that means. More weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mother" who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish.

Lawmakers in Arizona are poised to expand a controversial education program that lets parents divert state funds to virtually any school option they wish -- a move teacher groups and unions say would decimate the public education system.

You can smoke marijuana in some states, unless you're a fed: The Justice Department is turning a blind eye to pot, but the federal government still prohibits its workforce from using the drug, even though 20 states and Washington, D.C. allow the use of medical marijuana and Colorado and Washington state allow it for recreational use, according to a ... (more)

Gov. Mike Pence visited pre-school classes at Shepherd Community Center, 4107 E. Washington Street, in February to persuade the legislature to pass a pre-school voucher program for low-income children.

A new study says that high schools switching to later start times have seen an improvement in student grades and overall student health.

All of the reforms pushed onto public school districts in recent years fail to take into account that in many parts of the United States, going to school just isn't very important.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville was approved in the Senate Education Committee 7-2 on Wednesday.

A friend who I had not spoken to in over a decade contacted me to say that she sends a couple of her children to the St. Peter School and thought that I would enjoy paying a visit.

Both the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Duquesne University School of Law moved up significantly in the annual ranking by U.S. News and World Report, released Tuesday.

The Shan E Punjab dancers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14 at the ACT in Maple Ridge as part of Culture Fest.

This is the fourth of a series of essays by panelists who participated in a community conversation Feb. 4 sponsored by The Dallas Morning News.

Do the Common Core State Standards in English/Language Arts promote authentic civic learning? This article in The Atlantic magazine says yes.