That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.
Half of America’s teachers have taken a non-traditional path to the classroom. And as our schools continue to grow, the race is on to find people who might be able to lead them.
About a decade ago, Washington State embarked on an early social experiment to educate people about the impacts of stress on children. The results are starting to show.
Rebuffed in the courtroom, critics of evolution head to the statehouse to see their views represented in the classroom.
A journalism professor presents an elegy for the information age, bemoaning the current-affairs illiteracy on display with each new semester's offerings of undergrads.