Education

Battles over school curriculums occasionally make national news, but quickly fade. However, the banning of the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson has assumed much greater significance. The action precipitated …

A strike before November? Teachers say they are ready for it.

New information appears to tie Washington Post-owned Kaplan University to this legislation deregulating for-profit colleges at the same time Kaplan was misleading students about the accreditation status of a …

Mitt Romney has just released his plan for educating Americau2019s young people, and itu2019s wholly consistent with his overall philosophy: Allow money to dominate politics, and everything will work …

In the most recent escalation in the battle between a Quebecoise government pushing tuition hikes and striking Canadian students, at least three cities saw mass arrests at demonstrations against …

Obama is a skillful politician and a great orator. He has consistently made reference to the American Dream in his campaigning for the presidency and after, often focusing on …

Exxon-Mobil is airing education-reform television ads. In the one I’ve seen most often, implicit and explicit messages are simple and clear: (a) We live in a dangerous, technologically complex …

Students, parents, teachers, rally against a proposed radical restructuring of the public school system.

Thousands of students across Quebec continue their strike. More than 170,000 students are on strike. A deal that was tentatively agreed to by some of the student leadership over …

In light of the new research, several components of no excuses education reform are likely to increase the current problems with social and educational equity, instead of addressing them.