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The United States, the worlds oldest constitutional democracy, is "at a crossroads of peril and possibility," Judge Marjorie O. Rendell said to a crowd of elementary and secondary school educators

View the The Philadelphia Tribune for Sunday, October 22, 2023

From The Oregonian: Oregon again says studen...

Testing is prevalent in K-12 public education in the U.S. It is crucial to know the context of state and national assessments to understand what is happening in schools.

Improving education is core to the American Institutes for Research's work with its clients and communities, as well as a key area of focus for the AIR Equity…

Racial achievement gaps in math have worsened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruptions to learning. Some schools have tried to bridge those gaps through detracking, or

As schools nationwide contend with declining math scores, some districts are dedicating more time to the practice of foundational skills.

As states enact book bans, Scholastic releases a new collection aimed at giving librarians more “flexible” book fair choices—but the backlash has been swift.

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the math department at Blythewood High School, intervened with […]

Nearly a decade ago, one South Carolina experiment with detracking shows some promise as an aid.