States have invested enormous energy and political capital over the past decade in raising academic standards in American schools. A majority of parents and teachers believe those efforts are headed ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – While headlines around the country have referred to the move toward standards-based education in public schools as a “revolution,” the Roaring Fork School District Re-1 views it ...

A coalition of nearly a dozen national education groups called last week for a set of “midcourse corrections” that it believes are necessary for the promise of standards-based education to be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 13: The Spotbot 3.0.0, a four-legged ...

Researchers find merit in deeper grading methods, but don’t look closely at vexing ideas like no homework deadlines Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

STERLING — Budget concerns were the main topic of discussion at the RE-1 Valley District Accountability Advisory Committee (DAAC) meeting on Monday. The committee heard about the RE-1 Valley Board of ...

Science teacher David Venne invites students to help him with a class demonstration at Racine Case High School. Several Wisconsin school districts are trying a new method of evaluating what students ...

Last year, we began our work to shift toward a standards-based grading model that will ultimately be used at all Eagle County School District schools. This year, a number of our schools are piloting ...

Oklahoma’s Bible-based K-12 social studies standards are invalid because the state Board of Education violated open meetings ...

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