College Prep

While Chicago’s West Side may be one of the nation’s most dangerous neighborhoods, a school has emerged as a beacon of hope in the area.

Although the public employees union is presenting a united front in opposition to one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ballot initiatives, members of the California Teachers Association are far from unified over the amount of capital that the CTA plans to spend to defeat the measure.

Add Thomas Jefferson to the small but growing list of names of famous individuals in American history who have had their names removed from public schools in Berkeley, California.

Starting with this fall’s freshman class, high school students in the Philadelphia School District will be required to take a courses in African and African American history in order to graduate.

Two recent legal battles remind us that “religious speech is not an orphan to the First Amendment.”

Education experts ask whether No Child Left Behind is worth it.

Students today may know less mathematics than the pupils of any previous generation but they do feel better about it.

The US Department of Education wants schools to teach the Constitution, and many teachers aren’t happy.

Spending $34.2 billion in two years? That’s a tall order. But not for North Carolina legislators…

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message.

Labor unions typically control large urban school districts and often obstruct comprehensive reform.

On May 23 the Montgomery County School Board voted to completely scrap a controversial sex education curriculum.