This is worth having a conversation around. Angela Crackpot schools By JACOB GERSHMAN December 1, 2009 As long as Mayor Bloomberg is rolling up his sleeves for a brawl over the new teach ers-union contract, it's time for him to take a swing at...

Districts Adopt Mexican Curriculum to Help Hispanic Students by Paul Ruffins , November 5, 2007 Several school districts in the South and West that serve large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrant students are moving to align their middle- and...

Edwatch by Julia Steiny: ‘Merit pay’ costs more and delivers less 01:00 AM EST on Sunday, December 6, 2009 No evidence anywhere shows that merit-pay systems, aimed at individual teachers, improve education. Incentives to groups of teachers are...

Texas students struggle on early versions of end-of-course tests 06:31 AM CST on Thursday, December 3, 2009 By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News tstutz@dallasnews.com AUSTIN – As hundreds of Texas school districts get a jump on the...

This is a real interesting examination of the retreat into whiteness based on Benjamin’s new book, Searching For Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America (Hyperion). Interesting quote from within: "Prop. 13 heralded a new era...