Schools Matter

Down in the heart of Texas, everything is big--big sky, big land, big gambles, big lies, big cheating. Now the governor, Rick Perry, has ki...

Out of one side of her mouth, Spellings says that her trips to Afghanistan, England, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Russia, Gre...

The full report can be found here . Here are some interesting excerpts: --1-- "Almost half the Bay Area KIPP teachers come from the Tea...

KIPP schools are designed for black and Hispanic kids from inner-city ghettos. The success of these schools proclams, "Here is how you ...

If you read nothing else this weekend, read this piece published yesterday at Inside Higher Ed on the linked path from Leo Strauss to Marg...

New state tests mandated under NCLB and a change in the exam schedule have New York City officials scrambling to explain a drop in test sco...

WestEd is offering a free pdf of a policy perspective offered by Richard Rothstein, a longtime advocate for a realistic and systemic approa...

An editorial from St. Petersburg Times on the growing scandal that has to make Jeb wish that his family were not in bed with the McGraw-Hil...

With Jeb's voucher solution for the public schools ruled unconstituional earlier this year by the Florida Supreme Court, and with his ef...

2006, United States of America. New York Times : MIAMI, June 15 — A children's book about Cuba will be removed from Miami-Dade Cou...