Los Angeles Unified School District has said it is removing race as a factor for determining which students will be helped by its Black Student Achievement Plan. The move comes after a federal civil ...

It’s been more than 20 years since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law, its goal to make schools accountable for educating all children. Before the law passed, schools gave the test ...

America’s education system is in historic decline. According to the latest report card on 12th-graders, students finishing high school have fewer skills and less knowledge in core academics than their ...

For over two decades, a big standardized test has been used to measure student achievement. It’s not a particularly useful measurement. While there is ample evidence of correlation between test scores ...

Among 32 instructional practices examined in a recent research project, teachers' general instruction and classroom management — and not their prowess with reading and writing instruction — made the ...

New education data released today by researchers at Stanford University shows a complex, nuanced — and in some places, troubling — picture of student achievement and racial gaps based on standardized ...

Each school year, one important task on a principal’s plate is to review student-achievement data to identify trends and adjust goals. However, several common misinterpretations and misuse of such ...

Writer Andrew Rice discusses the steep decline in U.S. student achievement. Michel Martin sits down with Andrew Rice, a features writer at New York Magazine, to discuss his recent cover story, “The ...

Experienced, well credentialed teachers have a positive impact on achievement for all students, in particular students of color. And, a new report found, inexperienced, under-credentialed teachers ...

Visit the Baylor College of Medicine's accreditation page to view all Baylor accreditation information. SACSCOC requires accredited institutions to publish statements of their goals for student ...

This week we are hearing from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research (UChicago Consortium, @UChiConsortium). This post is by Elaine Allensworth (@E_Allensworth), Lewis-Sebring ...