In November 2010, I visited Harrison District 2, a low-income, largely Latino school district in Colorado Springs. As part of a plan to evaluate and pay all teachers according to how well they “grow” ...

When Capitol Hill lawmakers set out once again on the path to reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, some of them are likely to be bringing along a couple reports released this week as reading ...

Fourteen-year-old Zarria Porter spends her days surrounded by fine works of art. On her way to dance and computer classes, she passes through a sun-drenched lobby showcasing Georgia O’Keeffe’s ...

Ashley R Thompson (aka Ms. Art) poses for a portrait in her classroom at Howard Hall Elementary in Fayetteville, N.C. As they line up to leave for their next class, students at Howard Hall Elementary ...

Students who took the PARCC field test last spring reported having a much tougher time on the mathematics exam than on the English/language arts test. According to a new report, released Wednesday, ...

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...