Though education played a sizable role in President Barack Obama's third State of the Union address Tuesday evening -- even proving to be the speech's most-trafficked topic on Twitter -- teachers, union officials and experts are still making sense of wha

On the celebration today of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 83rd birthday, I have to wonder what King would have made of all the time, attention and discussion accorded two poorly phrased math questions in a Gwinnett County third-grade math class.

RIYADH: The Riyadh Schools, a group of schools of high standard in the Kingdom, has embarked on a project aimed at heralding an era of educational excellence in the Kingdom. Defense Minister Prince Salman, honorary president of the Riyadh Schools, met wi

Ten years ago this week, Pres. George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law, marking a new era for elementary and secondary education in the United States. On this anniversary, it’s important to check in, assess where we are, and chart whe

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to join gathering of Hispanics WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hispanic Leadership Network (HLN), a center-right advocacy action group, today announced the agenda for its "Inspiring Actio

For all its admirable intentions and the measurable gains it has produced, a decade after George W. Bush’s signature education overhaul became law, the consensus among policymakers and educators is grim: The good that’s come of No Child Left Behind no lo

Students assigned to high-VA teachers are more likely to attend college, attend higher- ranked colleges, earn higher salaries, live in higher SES neighborhoods, and save more for retirement. They are also less likely to have children as teenagers. Teache

President George W. Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings leave the US Department of Education in October 2006, after speaking about his No Child Left Behind policy. Bashing the No Child Left Behind Act has become so politically popular tha

An aspiring journalist, Pugh hopes to get scholarships to alleviate the financial burden of her education. If she fails to secure them, she says, "I've thought about the debt, but I try not to." Pugh joined her fellow students in cheering Obama's second