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Even more so than the recent defeats in states such as Wisconsin, a sure sign of the declining influence of teacher unions is the distance that school boards are putting between themselves and the union reps.

A new move by the Obama Administration may actually move education reform further than No Child Left Behind ever did.

A seminal trend may be occurring in media coverage of education, at least at the K-12 level: The press is starting to notice where the problem comes from.

The educational reforms some conservatives have championed for decades may actually have a chance at a second life now that a few liberals have embraced them.

Teach for America, the creation of yesterday’s Left, is becoming the bete noire of today’s.

A Democratic mayor’s loss could mean an end to the first real school reform Washington, D. C. ever knew.

Two weeks ago the Los Angeles Teachers Union called for its members to boycott the Los Angeles Times over the impending publication of  a study that rated the effectiveness of some 6,000 elementary school teachers.

The Los Angeles Times is facing a boycott from the city’s teachers union after publishing a study that analyzed the effectiveness of over 6,000 elementary school teachers.

Twenty years ago, when corporate America was knocking on the doors of Ivy League schools, 1989 Princeton graduate Wendy Kopp signed on with Morgan Stanley. But not for long.

What became of the Obama promise of transparency?

As the fourth annual abstinence awareness week kicks off, ULTRA (Urban Life Training and Reality Assessment) Teen Choice held an event at Howard University to promote abstinence awareness.

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.