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OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, SCHOOL reform efforts have identified teacher professional development as a key component of change and as an important link between standards and student achievement. After [...]

MORE THAN EVER, school district management is aided by software, and many administrators nominated programs that have helped them run their districts. Many have been able to implement large, district-level [...]

FORMER 2008 PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) proudly declared during a Democratic debate in late 2007, 'I want to be the education president.' You would be hard-pressed to find [...]

THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND WEB 2.0 IS changing the way students think, speak and gather information. The trends involved are also changing how teachers and administrators access and [...]

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE Pacific Northwest tree octopus? Most likely not. Good thing there is a Web site on the Internet to tell you all about it! According to [...]

Mankato Area (Minn.) Public Schools www.isd77.k12.mn.us DESIGN * The home page is devoted almost entirely to links to site information areas and misses opportunities to make the opening screen functional [...]

RANDI WEINGARTEN, HEAD OF the New York City teachers union United Federation of Teachers, took on the additional role of president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest [...]

IN JANUARY, RAMON CORTINES WAS APPOINTED by the board to take over as superintendent of the financially strapped and academically stubborn Los Angeles Unified School District. Succeeding David Brewer, a [...]

DESPITE GREAT EFFORTS, MANY schools are finding it hard to meet their annual yearly progress goals under NCLB, a challenge that can be linked to the difficulty English Language Learners [...]

One in 5 public school students is Hispanic, says a new study by the Washington-based research group Pew Hispanic Center. The number of Latino students--which has doubled since 1990 to [...]

WITH FUEL AND ENERGY PRICES soaring but also fluctuating between high and low, school districts across the country are finding ways to cut corners to keep budgets afloat. The American [...]

If cruel behavior among students is on the rise, it may be because too many kids see themselves as victims and not enough are learning to respect their antagonistic peers. [...]

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS rolling out an initiative to address one of the longstanding complaints against the No Child Left Behind law: that it treats schools the same regardless of [...]

TEST SCORES ARE RISING AND students are feeding a growing interest in the environment at West Brazos Junior High School in West Columbia, Texas. And school leaders have the building [...]

THE NONPROFIT GROUP ANYTIME Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF), established three years ago as an advocacy vehicle for learning through 1-to-1 laptop initiatives, has partnered with schools worldwide and held leadership-building [...]

FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN THE NIAGARA FALLS HIGH SCHOOL BEGAN its own Educational Access Channel, Our Schools Channel (OSC) TV 21, fewer than 10 media production students created it. Now [...]

PROBLEM SEVERAL YEARS AGO, STUDENTS in the Burlington (Vt.) School District lived without any real regard for a healthy diet or nutrition. Obesity-related illnesses plagued the 10-school district, and many [...]

BEVERLY HALL, SUPERINTENDENT OF ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS since 1999, was named the National Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) during its annual conference in [...]

THE NATION'S GOVERNORS MAY be pushing for American students to gain on their peers around the world by using international tests as benchmarks, but one of those tests might be [...]

NATIONAL STANDARDS, ONE OF the most hotly debated and intractable issues in education reform, may be close to becoming reality. The policy has recently received the backing of the nation's [...]

MORE THAN ONE MILLION STUDENTS DROP OUT OF HIGH school each year, but a new initiative launched by America's Promise Alliance, the nation's largest partnership of corporations, nonprofit organizations, foundations, [...]

THE NEW YORK CITY public school system will include 42 new schools this fall according to an announcement made by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in March that has been largely praised [...]

STUDENTS AT THE ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 50 IN METROPOLITAN Denver may be excited to return to school this fall--they won't get any grades. At least not traditional grades. In [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger has tapped education and philanthropy consultant Glen Thomas to serve as California's education secretary. Thomas will act as the governor's chief liaison to the appointed state board of [...]

FEW WOULD DENY THE ROLE WEB 2.0 technologies play in the lives of youth, but social learning network provider Saywire is doing one better in arguing that such technologies are [...]

PARENTS' WALLETS MAY BE GETTING LIGHTER AS a result of the economy, but students are still getting their fair share--of lunch, that is. According to a report recently released by [...]

A SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE IN Sacramento, Calif., recently blocked a controversial order that would make California the first state in the country to require algebra testing for all its eighth-graders. [...]

A STUDENT-LED PROJECT IS underway at Okemos High School in Okemos, Mich., that would have green advocates going ga-ga: through their holistic efforts, they strive to make it the first [...]

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND BETTER ACCESS have had online school enrollments going strong for the past ten years, but the recent slump in the economy may be painting a different picture [...]

BE CAREFUL WHOM YOU TRUST, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A STUDENT--THAT might be the message gained from a new report on the attitudes and conduct of almost 30,000 public and private [...]

IN CAR MANUFACTURING AREAS, the financial troubles of the 'big three' automakers--Ford, General Motors and Chrysler--are putting a bit of a strain on school districts. At Van Buren Public Schools [...]

Chicago Transit Authority president Ron Huberman has been appointed CEO of Chicago Public Schools, replacing Arne Duncan. On his plate is a plan to close or reorganize 22 schools. He [...]

Rossana Rosado, publisher and CEO of Spanish-language daily newspaper El Diario, has joined the board of Learn NY, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that New York City students receive a [...]

A. Woodrow Carter, superintendent of Capistrano (Calif.) Schools, has been placed on paid administrative leave. He got the job after the board's first choice backed out due to district 'uncertainty [...]

Randy Dorn, Washington's superintendent of public instruction, wants to do away with the WASL, a state test. But some are questioning whether he has the power to do so without [...]

CHRIS WILCOX, A FIFTH-GRADE teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Provo, Utah, feels that there is no greater inspiration to write than having one's own stories published, but classroom projects [...]

HERE'S THE SCOOP ON THE NEWLY APPOINTED U.S. education secretary: * In Chicago's public schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000-plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance [...]

IT'S NO SMALL SECRET THAT MICHELLE RHEE, chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, has an aggressive plan to address and reorganize the nearly 50,000-student district. Her 'renew, revitalize, and reorganize' (RRR) [...]

Teacher video Web site TeacherTube now boasts 220,000 regular users and more than 54,000 videos and is averaging 800,000 visitors every month. Source: The Dallas Morning [...]

IN A NOVEL APPROACH TO BRINGING INTO THE classroom a 21st-century technology with which nearly all students are all-too-familiar, the Keller (Texas) Independent School District is rolling out what is [...]

JAMES 'JIM' KNOX TICE OF Stratford, Mo., passed away on December 8, 2008, at the age of 74 years. Those close to him and education experts say his passing may [...]

ALL OF GEORGIA'S 184 PUBLIC school districts may have a security plan, but not all districts can say their plan has the approval of the state, according to a recent [...]

CRITICS WHO ARGUE THAT THE UNITED STATES LAGS BEHIND ITS international peers in the education rankings might find some evidence to the contrary in the recent results of a major [...]

BIG CHANGES ARE AFOOT IN NEWARK (N.J.) Public Schools, where a new initiative to curb the dropout rate will develop and open ten new schools and programs over the next [...]

Tony Bennett, Indiana's new superintendent of public instruction, supports vouchers that force public and private schools to compete for state money, as well as small school district [...]

SINCE OUR APRIL 2007 ARTICLE, 'Certifying AP Courses,' in which Scarsdale (N.Y.) Public Schools Superintendent Michael McGill offered his thoughts--and concerns--regarding the merits of phasing out College Board-sponsored Advanced Placement [...]

Anne Keehn is new VP of sales and business development at eCollege, a Pearson company and top provider of e-learning solutions and services. She has more than 25 years of [...]

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennett has been named to fill a Senate vacancy by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter that was created by the nomination of Sen. Ken Salazar to [...]

Ramon Cortines took over Los Angeles schools as superintendent on January 1 under a three-year contract. Educators say he can help the district recover from a financial crisis and improve [...]

Connie Calloway has been dismissed as superintendent of Detroit Public Schools after less than 18 months. The school board attributes their decision to her alleged mismanagement of the district's [...]