The credit hour is currently the basic unit of measurement for student progress in higher education in the United States. The credit hour informs aspects of administration of higher-education ...

Last December, Peter DeWitt wrote a blog post titled 11 Critical Issues Facing Educators in 2023. Among the items on his list was: A love for learning – I know this sounds hokey, but it’s not. There ...

If we allow a single test score number to define a child, an educator or a school, we fail to honor the complexity of learning.

What happens when a school district boosts test scores for students in poverty, raises their graduation rates, and gets more of them to enroll in college, but the students’ lives just don’t improve in ...

BOSTON — Teachers and educators are calling for the state to change its MCAS requirement for graduation, arguing that it does not accurately measure student achievement or school performance.

Students at Franklin Elementary School in Elk Grove wield their shovels at a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new campus at Dorcey and Gilliam drives. The site is scheduled to open in fall 2020.

There is a lot of construction to be done on Los Angeles-area schools. In an ever-hotter climate, all campuses need functioning air conditioning and outdoor shade structures. Some of the blacktop that ...

Holes and other damage are evident on the aging portable classrooms at Norseman Elementary School in the Fresno Unified School District on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. Aging portables and a modern library ...

High school students in Portugal programmed a small, inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer to measure Earth's magnetic field from the International Space Station. When you purchase through links on our ...

This article about college graduation rates was produced in partnership with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.