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House lawmakers heard from Iowa teachers, school district staff and parents in a public hearing Wednesday on their proposal to make changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. Some speakers remained

Speakers discussed their support for — and problems with — Iowa's Area Education Agencies at a public hearing Wednesday.

Alaska’s top-ranked charter school principals point to a variety of reasons for their success.

Conventional schools get more money to do worse, while charter schools do better with less

When Alaska’s charter schools topped the nation in an analysis of student test scores, even the Harvard researchers who authored the study were stunned.

House lawmakers heard from Iowa teachers, school district staff and parents in a public hearing Wednesday on their proposal to make changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. Some speakers remained

House lawmakers heard from Iowa teachers, school district staff and parents in a public hearing Wednesday on their proposal to make changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. Some speakers remained

On a chilly Monday morning, Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School fifth graders Sarina Shah and Astara Martin worked to raise the American flag at their school.

That many Americans today suffer a disconnect from their past is beyond argument. Some of us have seen those man-in-the-street encounters where a repo...

Of all the skills that children may acquire in school, none surpasses reading in importance. The ability to read and comprehend what’s read is the key to all other learning, either formal or personal, and the students in California’s schools are not doing well. Results from the state’s latest academic achievement tests, released last October, revealed […]