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When the bell rings in high schools around the country this morning, will our schools be equipped to deliver excellence? Recent trends are not encouraging. Between 1990 and 2000, the [...]

Young people in care suffer from low educational achievement but a project in Leeds is raising aspirations. So much so that interest is now growing in higher education, writes Graham [...]

This article examines the performance of charter schools in California, focusing on how charter school leadership and management compares to public schools. Topics include the political controversy over charter schools and educational accountability.

Prediction of college-freshman performance and graduation in the US colleges was the main attempt of this study. Results suggested that student populations attending colleges had greater chances of graduating.

For a second consecutive year, homeschoolers have scored well above the national average on the SAT, scoring 62 points above national average on the verbal exam at 568 and 11 [...]

In a review of children in care, Lord Laming said too many were being sucked into the criminal justice system, including one boy who ate food from the fridge in [...]

Today, the Merrillville Community Schools Corporation, located in a suburban town outside Gary, Ind., is an award-winning district, having achieved a 90 percent graduation rate in 2012 with 78 percent [...]

TOP-RANKED COUNTRIES According to the Program for International Student Assessment, 2009 SCIENCE 1. Shanghai, China 2. Finland 3. Hong Kong, China 4. Singapore 5. Japan 6. South Korea 7. New [...]

Are you tired of reading about scorecards, rankings, ratings, and data? No? Good. * The Education Trust has pulled together data about how recipients of Pell Grants fare at 1,149 [...]

Colleges With the Best 6-Year and 3-Year Graduation Rates in 2013 The graduation rates for all of the top 20 four-year private nonprofit colleges were above 90 percent. Rates for [...]

Just 19 of the 594 students in Paterson, New Jersey, schools who took the SAT this year scored at the level considered college-ready by the College Board. Last year, just [...]

Statistics reveal that around 200 schools are free from the threat of closure as they reached the National Challenge benchmark for GCSE results in the previous summer exams. However, about one in seven secondaries are still under pressure as they could be closed and converted into an academy if 30% of their pupils do not achieve five higher GCSE grades including English and math by the end of 2011.

About half of all PhD candidates never finish their degrees, according to the report by the Council of Graduate Schools. After 10 years, the majority of humanities students have still [...]

Woodham Community Technology College is counting the success of having been involved in the pilot project for the OCR GCSE science course, 21st Century Science in 2004. The pupils who started the project are now Year 11s, and 63% of them have recently achieved grades A* to C pass grades in the subject.