Sign Up For Our Newsletter

Educating children: single-sex v co-ed; social v academic education?

Even if your school's test scores and graduation rates are higher than those in Cincinnati, there could still be a lot to learn from what the district has done.

In the waning days of 2006, our fearless ed school mole takes a look back at the semester. 

Ridgeview Classical Schools' high school has been named Colorado's top public school for the second year in a row.  The principal shares the secret of the school's success.

One blogger and former teacher from the UK who now homeschools explains why homeschooling may--or may not--be the right decision for you.

While liberals are quick to support school vouchers for higher education, they are much less enthusiastic about giving students younger than 18 the same power to choose their school.

Psychologists are declaring obnoxious, antisocial behavior a disease.  Colleges are teaching adults to boil water.  And educators are blaming everybody but the cheaters for cheating.

Naming the Department of Education to honor the 36th President would be a permanent reminder of the tragic history of federal education policy.  

One point in the education reform debate has been almost entirely neglected: The only way to transform any system is to allow amateur, untrained visionaries to create new institutions within that system.

Answer: ask the parents, says one state representative.