College Prep

Last week, Charles Murray, author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve, opined on the pages of the Wall Street Journal on the topic of IQ and education.

Though fraught with tension, a performance-based compensation system makes good sense and creates all kinds of incentives to achieve. Such logic is lost on the education establishment, however.

The Carteret School District is now allowing a Good News
Club to meet at the Minue Elementary School.

California employs people to expose waste and fraud but, unfortunately, agencies such as the California Department of Education (CDE) sometimes prefer to fire and demote these workers rather than heed their warnings.

Five can be a difficult birthday. Just ask the architects of President Bush’s landmark federal law, No Child Left Behind, which turned five on January 8th.

Bureaucratic red-tape has prevented many students from even receiving any possible benefits from NCLB.

The Wolcott School District has now reversed its discriminatory
practice of denying equal access to Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF)
Good News Clubs in its elementary schools.

The rate of substantiated sexual abuse of minors
committed by New York City public school workers is approximately
three times the rate found among Catholic priests nationwide.

If you are a student in the Montgomery County school system the chances are you are the recipient of a talented and gifted (TAG) label that places you in the crème de la crème of the student population.

Those declaring war on Christmas in public schools just lost another battle

For education reformers, this year will bring a mix of the old and the new, as lawmakers bridge the gap between the lingering stalemates of 2006 and the policy innovations of 2007.

New survey results show American schools may use their academic freedom in order to fail in international rankings.