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Jay Mathews THE WASHINGTON POST – I am happy to report new educational research revealing the positive influence of crazy optimists like me. This added joy to my holiday season. Optimistic teachers may be wrong to think that nearly every one of their students will graduate from college. But their upbeat attitude appears to produce […]

Baltimore City Public Schools came under fire from state officials for 'grade-changing' earlier this year, but the city is working to make progress.

David Levin has a message for principals who want to turn failing schools into high-quality centers of learning: Two plus two equals five.

Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews wrote about the consequences of 'no-zero' grading policies in a Washington, D.C., school in a Sunday article.

Jay Mathews of the Washington Post writes: Pessimism about American public schools runs deep, particularly with the latest federal sampling tests showing a sharp drop in achievement among 9-year-olds because

The university had requested an emergency order from the Supreme Court to stop the state court decision that ruled the university has to accommodate the YU Pride Alliance, a student group on campus, due to New York City’s anti-discrimination law.

The Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng, blind since childhood, self-taught in the law, defender of women’s rights to resist forced abortion, thorn in the side of local despots in his home district of Linyi in Shandong province, veteran of a four-year prison sentence on the spurious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic,” and since then victim—along with his wife and