Education News

President Obama is proposing a financial aid overhaul that would tie colleges’ eligibility for campus-based aid programs to the institutions’ success in improving affordability and value for students.

A girl’s successful lawsuit to have a prayer removed from her high school has roiled the heavily Roman Catholic city of Cranston, where residents are appealing the decision.

The incident of the 6-year-old boy suspended from elementary school for a case of “sexual assault” is not isolated, experts say.

Faced with closure, the estimated $150,000 that the Premont, Tex., school district would spend during the next year on spring and fall sports, including football, could no longer be justified.

Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School’s progress may cost it access to additional assistance.

This word has appeared in six New York Times articles in the past year.

A post last week -- "Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading" -- by Anne Stone and Jeff Nichols about their New Year's Eve encounter with their son’s third-grade English Language Arts practice test struck a nerve. Numerous responses came in to SchoolBook's query, “What effect is standardized testing having on reading?” Here are some of them.

Teachers at some of the 33 so-called struggling schools that are engaged in improvement efforts sent a letter last week to Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and the teachers union president, Michael Mulgrew. The teachers petitioned the city and union to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system that would fulfill the requirements of a federal grant and free up $58 million that the state has been withholding. Meanwhile, the city and union have resumed informal talks.

A crowd of about 200 community leaders, elected officials and NAACP members turned out Thursday night to oppose the city's plan to phase out the middle grades of Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Harlem. They had tough questions -- and tough words -- for Deputy Chancellor Shael Polakow-Suransky.

College applications to Harvard stabilize after a period of explosive growth.

Fun teaching and learning suggestions for this year's awards season.

The Obama administration announced long-awaited changes to government-subsidized school meals, issuing rules that add more fruits and green vegetables and reduce the amount of salt and fat.

Freshmen entering college last fall were less likely to attend their first choice of college, a function of both competition and cost, than at any other time since 1974.

Proven educational strategies to increase high school completion provide returns to the taxpayer that are two to four times their cost.

State appropriations for colleges and students dropped by 7.6 percent, the largest decline in at least 50 years, researchers say.

President Obama’s call for every state to require students to stay in school until they turn 18 is Washington’s first direct involvement in an issue that many states have found tough to address.

A project tracked the academic performance of more than 21,000 New York City students who applied for ninth grade admission at 105 small high schools, mainly in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, from 2005 to 2008.

Getting an early handle on overall application trends at nearly four dozen colleges and universities, and counting.

The principal of a troubled Bronx high school will resign at the end of this week amid accusations that she gave some students credit for classes they never took. City officials said on Thursday that Sharron Smalls, the principal of Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers, will step down as principal on Friday, leaving her $140,000 job to become an assistant principal at another school. The school is slated to be phased out.

Vasiliy Bogin, the director of a private Moscow school, hovered over first graders at P.S. 321 who were engaged in a writing lesson, and met with a variety of education officials during a whirlwind day that introduced him to New York City schools. His takeaway? "There are a lot of people who want to make education better."