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Seattle's public school district will likely lay off employees because of financial problems caused by plummeting student enrollments, ...

City students fell behind on math, but so did kids across the nation.

Data released by the National Center for Educational Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, shows that Catholic school teachers, on average, work slightly more time each week than pubic school teachers--but get paid less while producing better results than public school teachers.

HeyTutor analyzed the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see how different groups of students have fared in their reading and math assessments over the past 20 years.

An education gap between white students and their black and Hispanic peers is something to which most Americans have become accustomed. But this racial division of education—and hence of prospects for the future—is nothing less than tragic. The good news is that the racial divide in learning is a problem that can be fixed. Of course, it can only be fixed if education reform is approached in a commonsense and innovative way. Continuing to repeat the largely failed national policies and ever-i...

Gov. Katie Hobbs proposed budget reallocates money earmarked for ASUs civics school and deposits it in the lump sum for the university.

It seems the Biden student debt cancellation plan now before the Supreme Court is causing a fair amount of heartburn in liberal GI tracts, especially with the direction the justices’ questions h...

Since its inception, Head Start has enrolled over 21 millionchildren at a cost of over $66 billion, but there is littleevidence of long-term impact, and poor children enter kindergartena step behind their middle-class peers and never catch up. Congressshould focus on improving Head Start programs by enacting higherstandards, requiring stronger accountability, and spurringinnovation.

Bipartisan cooperation could "really make a difference" in helping schools be more effective in how they teach reading, said one legislator.

Bring on the debate about all of this, but start by setting aside the broad, knee-jerk presumption that more funding improves outcomes.