Karen Pittman, co-founder and CEO of the Forum for Youth Investment, interviewed by Frameworks, stresses that we need to think about learning in its more intrinsic ...
Student leaders and community allies working with the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools voiced their opposition on July 20, 2012 to the most recent draft of ...
Politicians from both sides of the aisle agree: early childhood education plays a crucial role in ensuring America’s global competitiveness. Even amid ...
The author says that students may be too young to understand the word "sequestration". But they will definitely feel the impact when they report to classes ...
In a triumph of community activism, afterschool advocates across New York City have defeated proposed budget cuts that would have left more than 25,000 elementary, ...
Jan Richter says that this year’s Kids Count data book shows that kids and families are doing their part, but we as a nation are not doing ours to protect our ...
Many top private schools have chosen not to participate in statewide voucher and scholarship tax credit programs in states such as Ohio, Louisiana and Florida.
In recent focus groups community college students expressed some frustration that without clearly defined goals and a clear understanding of how to get there, higher ...
The Obama administration unveiled plans to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost students' achievement in STEM subjects.
The infant mortality rate, the preterm birth rate, and the adolescent birth rate all continued to decline, average mathematics scores increased for 4th and 8th ...
t's impossible to overestimate the role that parents can play in their children's education. In addition to being their children's first teachers, parents ...
Youth Today describes the results of the National Research Council report on Education for Life and Work, which shows that students need to learn not just the three ...
The New York Times reports on the extent that the Obama Administration’s waiver program for No Child Left Behind has begun to refocus how to measure educational ...
The National Civic League announced the winners of its 2012 All-America City Grade-Level Reading Award, recognizing 14 communities that have developed ambitious, ...
In the latest commentary for Spotlight, contributor Eric J. Cooper, president and founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, contends ...
