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WSU College of Education doctoral student Olasunkanmi (Ola) Kehinde has been awarded an internship with Educational Testing Services, one of the world’s largest educational testing and assessment organizations.

Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding

An obsession with a distorted sense of “compassion” is strangling our national debate on the most important issues of our time and contributing to the ongoi

Though for many COVID is over, the effects of COVID, especially on our most vulnerable neighbors, continue.

Schools in the Bayou State are moving past other states in multiple categories: math, reading, and graduation rank.

A pandemic-related exception to the requirement that students repeat the third grade if they’re not reading proficiently ends with this academic year.

Special education researchers copy the science of reading playbook and seek to change math instruction in America. Opponents cite rival research.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / and sorry I could not travel both. / And be one traveler, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could,” poet Robert Frost wrote in “The Road Not Taken.”  As with Frost’s path, two means of certifying schoolteachers have also diverged in California and Arizona, and one path—the one less taken in most states—is proving to better serve its teacher and student travelers.  State policies governing teacher certification can have a consid...

Can a democracy survive if its youth know nothing about government or civic participation? The United States is about to find out. 

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