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Are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council doing their traditional budget dance? Every year, the mayor proposes cutting certain vital city programs and then, at the last minute, [...]

EASLEY, S.C. -- Since he was in seventh grade, Louie Alexander has received mail inviting him to apply to costly summer study programs for the gifted, but he long ago [...]

One of the first lessons a Fontbonne girl learns is that no good can come from crossing Sister Dolores. Sister Dolores, the principal of Fontbonne Hall Academy, an all-girls Catholic [...]

The idea that a handful of college instructors and student teachers in the school of education at the University of Massachusetts could slow the corporatization of public education in America [...]

Public School 30 and Public School 179 are about as alike as two schools can be. They are two blocks apart in the South Bronx. Both are 98 percent black [...]

A recently released study has concluded that computers are capable of scoring essays on standardized tests as well as human beings do. Mark Shermis, dean of the College of Education [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- At the end of his first year at the Community College of Philadelphia, Christopher Thomas decided that his goal -- to go back to school and get a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED IN the early-morning hours of that Friday in February 2011, at around 3 a.m., George Desdunes and another Cornell sophomore were sitting on a couch blindfolded, their wrists [...]

During the 2010-11 school year, Adeline Seise's son Gabriel, a second grader, repeatedly disrupted classes at Public School 67 in the Bronx. On Sept. 29, according to a school report, [...]

When Omri Shefet started at East Side Middle School two years ago, as a sixth grader, he felt quite small. He had learning problems and needed special education services, including [...]

CAMDENTON, Mo. -- Students using the computers at Camdenton High School here in central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for Exodus International, as well as People [...]

TUCSON -- Ana Verdugo is a fan of Matt de la Pena's young adult novels; she read his ''Mexican WhiteBoy'' in two days. Like the lead character, Danny, Ana is [...]

For 15 years, Anna Allanbrook has been the principal of Public School 146 in Brooklyn, one of the highest-achieving elementary schools in the city. In that time, she has never [...]

I'm delighted that the New York City Education Department has released its teacher data reports. Finally, there are some solid numbers for judging teachers. Using a complex mathematical formula, the [...]

What was Arne Duncan doing sharing the stage with Michelle Rhee at a recent education conference? Mr. Duncan is the education secretary. Ms. Rhee was the chancellor of schools in [...]

ATLANTA -- For years, Beverly L. Hall, the former school superintendent here, ruled by fear. Principals were told that if state test scores did not go up enough, they would [...]

P.S. 142 is a high poverty school so close to the Williamsburg Bridge that during recess children can hear the cars above them driving to Brooklyn. Almost all of the [...]

The next time people try to tell you how much the data-driven education reform programs of President George W. Bush (No Child Left Behind) and President Obama (Race to the [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- ''I'll take you to see Mulberry Street,'' said Guy McLain, the director of the Museum of Springfield History. He meant the real Mulberry Street, the one that [...]

Even if you think the Obama administration's signature education program, Race to the Top, will not help a single child in America learn more, you have to admire its bureaucratic [...]

My four children have all attended public schools in our middle-class suburban district. When my oldest was in fourth grade, in 1998, he took the state tests, and I was [...]

In the last couple of years, Sharon Akman, a real estate agent, applied to the state of New Jersey three times to open a new charter school in the Highland [...]

In the summer of 2010, Lu Young, the superintendent of schools in Jessamine County, a Lexington, Ky., suburb, took a trip to Australia paid for by the Pearson Foundation, a [...]

In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children's academic progress. Thanks [...]

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- The results are now public from the 2011 federal testing program known as NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. And once again, schools on the [...]

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- ''Can we talk about deployment?'' Gregory Bole, a counselor, asked the kindergartners last week at Tarawa Terrace Elementary, one of seven schools on the Marine base [...]

Rockville Centre, N.Y. Through the years there have been many bitter teacher strikes and too many student protests to count. But a principals' revolt? ''Principals don't revolt,'' said Bernard Kaplan [...]

BOSTON -- There is rarely a minute when Nathaly Lopera, a high school senior, isn't working to improve herself. Since second grade, she has taken advantage of a voluntary integration [...]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Two years ago, in an effort to attract more veterans to Columbia, Curtis Rodgers, a dean of admissions, began recruiting at military bases. Almost immediately he [...]

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Last year, when Tennessee was named one of the first two states to win a federal Race to The Top grant, worth $501 million, there was great [...]

DURHAM, N.H. -- Every spring, Linda Rief, who is in her 25th year of teaching English at Oyster River Middle School, has eighth graders do a semesterlong ''genre'' project. They [...]

In June, Desiree Smith was graduated from Murry Bergtraum High. Her grades were in the 90s, she said, and she had passed the four state Regents exams. Since enrolling last [...]

After decades spent working deep in the bowels of the New York City Department of Education bureaucracy, Bob Cohen, 59, has risen to the most important job of his life: [...]

Since 2008, the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of one of the nation's largest educational publishers, has financed free international trips -- some have called them junkets -- for education [...]

DURHAM, N.C. -- When Mr. Williams means business, he is not kidding around. ''He's pretty quiet, pretty serious,'' said Ashabur Rahman, a fifth grader at Glenn Elementary School who has [...]

One columnist's idea of a good principal: A good principal has been a teacher. While Ivy Leaguers in their 20s can now become principals, Jacqui Getz, 51, the new principal [...]

In recent years, the Pearson Foundation has paid to send state education commissioners to meet with their international counterparts in London, Helsinki, Singapore and, just last week, Rio de Janeiro. [...]

CHITTENDEN, Vt. -- Karen Prescott, the principal of Barstow Memorial, never expected that her 33 elementary and middle school students who live on the other side of the mountain would [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Wednesday morning, on the first day of the new school year at St. Paul's Roman Catholic School in East Harlem, Gertrude Zagarella expects to arrive, as always, at [...]

Can an education reform movement that demeans and trivializes teachers succeed? It's hard to imagine, but that is what is going on in parts of America today. In Steven Brill's [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- Why won't Michelle Rhee talk to USA Today? Ms. Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington public schools from 2007 to 2010, is the national symbol of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED In December, the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, Merryl H. Tisch, announced a new program: 13 research fellows would be selected to advise the [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- In April, Dale Mezzacappa attended a panel discussion on cheating sponsored by the Education Writers Association. At the time, she was one of three staff reporters for The [...]

Mary Otero was not going to make the same mistake with her 11-year-old, Aaliyah, that she had made with her two grown children. They had both gone to Dewey -- [...]

ATLANTA -- There had long been suspicions that cheating on state tests was widespread in the Atlanta public schools, but the superintendent, Beverly L. Hall, was feared by teachers and [...]

In 2008, when Katherine Sprowal's son, Matthew, was selected in a lottery to attend the Harlem Success Academy 3charter school, she was thrilled. ''I felt like we were getting the [...]

Everyone knows Jamaica High is a bad school. The past two years, it has received D's on its report card from the city and been labeled persistently dangerous by the [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Many in the forefront of what is called the education reform movement -- like Bill Gates, the philanthropist, and Arne Duncan, the nation's education secretary -- have [...]

In 1994, when retired First Sgt. Richard Gogarty arrived at Francis Lewis High School in Queens to start an Army Junior R.O.T.C. program, only two staff members, one of them [...]

Newcomb, N.Y. When Clark Hults was hired to be the school superintendent here in 2006, Newcomb was just another dying mining town in the Adirondacks North Country. The population had [...]