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The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s release of a report titled “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 was a pivotal point in the history of American education. The report used dire language, lamenting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of

With Mayor Adams ordering budget cuts and state Comptroller DiNapoli warning $14 billion city-cash shortfall by 2027, a new Citizens Budget Commission school-spending report is needed.

Six-year-old Jacob dreads going to school where he often encounters violent bullies. Even though Jacob’s mother, Jennifer Gonzalez Muoz, repeatedly addressed the problem with school officials, the violence persists. As the Institute for Justice details, the family’s low income means that Jacob is trapped in a toxic environment by their ZIP code where his speech disability is untreated and officials permit bullying. Unfortunately, Jacob’s story is all too common for many Puerto Rican childr...

Do some public-school students perform as well or better than private-school students? A recent study by the federal Department of Education seems to suggest they do.Test scores from the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicated that public-school students enjoyed a 4.5% advantage over private school students in 4th-grade math and were competitive with them in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade math. They were, though, at a decided 7.3% disadvantage in 8th-grade reading.

It is hardly breaking news that many once-trustworthy science and medical publications have been infected by leftist ideology. One of the worst cases involved the Lancet, which published an editorial in May of 2020 that openly urged American voters to...

Several studies within the past year have shown just how detrimental remote learning has been to academic progress during the coronavirus pandemic, especially for students already disadvantaged by racial and economic achievement gaps. Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research, for example, looked at testing data from fall 2019 through fall 2021 of 2 million students in 10,000 schools […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, M...

It’s hard not to pity schoolchildren in New Mexico these days.

Reading instruction that prioritizes phonics and decoding words is gaining emphasis

Children learn at different paces and in different ways; personalized learning optimizes that. Here’s the tech behind personalized learning and how it works in K–12.

The Early Literacy Success Initiative would pay for reading tutors, teacher training and require a shift to teaching methods