The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part.

What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. By Spencer Robins.

Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff's concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.

A new study reveals that efforts to teach anti-evolution lessons have multiplied and...evolved.

Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.

Gov. Cuomo's task force calls for change in standards and testing.

An Argument against Deceptive Metrics of School Success. By Emily Kaplan.

This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools.

A Princeton University student group, Princeton Open Campus Coalition, has formed to resist the stifling of academic freedom and the atmosphere of intimidation on campus.

Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years, said she was notified in September that the program was being ended.

In The Wall Street Journal, Roger Kimball writes about the rise of the college crybullies at Yale, Mizzou and elsewhere. The status of victim has been weaponized at campuses across the nation, but there is at least one encouraging sign.

An elementary school math quiz has been generating outrage online for the teacher's questionable grading criteria.

Last week Florida lawmaker Senator Darren Soto introduced a bill that would raise the minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 a year.

At the largest charter school network in New York City, strict academic and behavior standards set the stage for learning. That doesn't exclude children as young as 5 or 6 years old, who can be given out-of-school suspensions if they don't follow the rules. Special correspondent for education John Merrow explores what that policy means for both the child and the school.

I took a risk: I created a major assignment using Drunk History excerpts. After researching the historical facts and errors from short clips of their choosing, students analyzed the narrative in terms of the course’s theoretical arguments.

Officials are raising questions about a $249 million grant to charter schools announced the day of his resignation.

Annual salary of an experienced elementary school teacher (in 1,000 USD/PPP*) Expressed in real purchasing power.

“The changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do.” The difference between first grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade experience in the mid-90s doesn’t match the kindergarten she described in her email: three and a half hours of daily...

King will take over for Arne Duncan, who steps down January 1.

For many students, quiet time is key for the learning process.