This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A federal audit in California inflated high school graduation rate by 2%. California education leaders inflated the state’s high school graduation rate by 2 percentage points in 2014, according to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Smarter Balanced is now in its fourth year as the nation’s most innovative online assessment system. We’re excited to continue to provide a world-class assessment that is accessible for students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In today’s world, the large majority of countries can actually afford to provide universal health coverage and universal access to quality education. It’s less a question of economics than of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shortly after arriving in Detroit last year, schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti put 13 charter schools on notice: They might have to scramble to survive. Unlike most of the privately managed,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. First, the apparent “good news”: The high school graduation rate, steadily increasing since 2011, reached a record high of 84.1 percent in 2016, according to new data released by the Education Department.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reams of research have shown stark achievement gaps between white and Asian students and their black and Hispanic peers. But a new interactive database released Wednesday shows how pervasive the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sports are often cited as a unifying force in society with the power to bring strangers together to cheer for their hometown team (or help each other climb greased-up light poles).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After settling into his dorm this past fall, John McGrath, a freshman at Rutgers University, took the campus shuttle to the school bookstore. He waited in line for 40 minutes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What if every student were asked What do you want to learn about and What do you want to do? on a regular basis? High school senior Jemar Lee (who attends Iowa…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tax cuts that went into effect this month have nonprofits and donors alike scrambling to learn more about how they might affect charitable giving. WHAT CHANGED? Congress introduced temporary…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Adriana Garcia heard about a new teacher residency program at New York University based on the medical model where doctors-in-training begin practicing medicine under supervision of an experienced mentor,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nitzan Pelman was in her twenties when she began to teach herself the basics. How to write a coherent sentence. How to think critically. Labeled a special needs student at…