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The results of the test, which assesses a sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students, will inevitably prompt demands for policy change. WASHINGTON -- America's fourth and eighth graders are losing [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school based here, graduated 2,371 students last spring. At the commencement ceremony, a student speaker triumphantly told her classmates [...]

For the high school class of 2012, the average score on the critical reading section of the SAT college entrance exam, 496, was down 1 point from the previous year, [...]

Only one in four students who enter high school in New York City are ready for college after four years, and less than half enroll, according to the A-through-F high [...]

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, when states were […]

More than half of New York State's special education students are enrolled in districts that are failing to meet their needs, Richard P. Mills, the state education commissioner, said yesterday. […]

The percentage of New York City high school students graduating on time dropped last year, according to new figures released yesterday, to 53.2 percent in 2005 from 54.3 percent in […]

Last fall, R. Eden Martin, a lawyer from a powerful business group here, wrote a blunt memorandum to Arne Duncan, the chief executive of the Chicago public schools, warning that […]

An elementary school on a block of boarded-up houses here offers a glimpse of how Edison Schools Inc. would remake many of America's classrooms. Its experience is perhaps of most […]