College Prep

Despite what Americans have been hearing about the nation’s poor civics literacy, renowned education reformer Diane Ravitch suggests that, on historical subjects at least, civics education may have made “some headway.”

First it was dodge ball, then it was tag. Now it is sack races and three-legged races that might cause children harm.

When 11 percent of Yale’s senior class, 10 percent of Georgetown’s and 9 percent of Harvard’s head off to teach at some of America’s most impoverished inner city schools for the next couple of years, something’s going on.

Nearly 100 U-Chi faculty members have signed a petition against establishing a Milton Friedman Institute on campus.

How much do American high-schoolers know about their literary heritage? Not much, apparently.

Apart from adult entertainment, the city fathers of Las Vegas actually find a lot of things they want to regulate, such as education.

One of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ most meaningful talks this year was the one he gave at the Washington (DC) Jesuit Academy.

An irate father in Jackson, Mississippi is demanding that his daughter’s sixth grade teacher at the Chastain Middle School be fired, said pc.blogspot.com.

Education professionals think that they have come up with a way to get middle school students to share their life experiences in a way that is both therapeutic and instructive but the exercises may prove to be intrusive at best.

On June 2, California celebrates the 10th anniversary of Proposition 227 initiative many believed would end bilingual education in the state’s classrooms.

Here and across the nation, the homeschooling movement has grown in stature and popularity – defying stereotypes and occasionally, disarming critics.

Should parents be key players in year-round school assignment decisions? An ill-conceived appellate court decision this week says they shouldn’t.