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Indiana teachers are doubling down on calls for better pay, setting up a potential showdown between educators and lawmakers in the coming months.

A major initiative employing reading coaches to help teachers improve instruction showed small gains in achievement, according to an education department review of the city’s Universal Literacy Program released Thursday.

Significantly fewer school districts will require county help this year for poor performance on the state’s school accountability tool, the California School Dashboard, reflecting what State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond called “steady — albeit slow — progress in…

When Kamiah Brown was a freshman at Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco, she sometimes felt lost and discouraged in the classroom. As one of 21 African-American students in her class of 164, there were few faces that…

The Democratic party once embraced charter schools as a tool for equity and opportunity. Now, as Andre Perry points out in his recent op-ed, “Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price,” many prominent Democrats have largely reversed…

A growing number of the nation's 40 biggest cities are providing high-quality pre-kindergarten programs for families, according to a new analysis of their policies and enrollment.

The federal government is investigating a Southwest Michigan school district after a complaint alleging a “racially hostile educational environment.”

Despite a pending legal challenge to its authority, a newly appointed Kentucky Board of Education on Thursday forced out the state's education chief — a swift move that fulfills one of Gov. Andy Beshear's most prominent campaign promises.

When prison technology company Global Tek Link, or GTL, announced in October that it was providing hundreds of free electronic tablets for West Virginia prisons, it sounded like a compassionate gesture. But the program comes with a hitch. People who…

No child should go to school hungry, but that's the reality for many students. That's why a teacher at a Las Vegas elementary school started a "giving closet" to provide snacks and necessities, so students can focus on learning. For…

Sales of a University of Tennessee T-shirt designed by a bullied fourth-grade boy in Florida have raised over $950,000 for an anti-bullying organization.

The Minneapolis school district is back in a deep and familiar hole: It’s facing a $19.6 million budget deficit for the 2020-21 school year. District leaders are attributing the projected gap largely to declining enrollment and revenue that hasn’t kept…

More than 30 business leaders wrote a letter Wednesday to Gov. Larry Hogan and top legislative officials urging support of the Kirwan Commission recommendations to improve public schools.

Smartphones and other devices have long been maligned as distractions in university classrooms. But when employed strategically, many educators find them useful.

A North Carolina school district has apologized for an assignment that asked middle school students to compare the value of slaves and white people.