It took Danny Harris's collapse to draw many people's attention. We should have been paying attention sooner. Harris is the Chief ...

Acting Pretend Secretary of Education John King has offered further guidance as a follow-up to last year's Testing Action Plan , and i...

The United States Department of Education announced at the end of last month its new #GoOpen campaign, a program in support of using "o...

The USED National Center for Education Statistics today released a "first look" at a new report looking at public school teacher a...

The slow-motion train wreck that is the unspooling of the Corinthian for-profit college chain has just dumped one more car off the tracks. S...

The bipartisan proposal from the Senate Education Committee is settled and ready to see the light of day. There's some good news for pub...

Chicago Public Schools caved. The district's CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was holding out for a limited rollout of the PARCC, administerin...

As fans of test-driven accountability (as well as test-generated profits) continue to argue vigorously for the continued repeated use of Big...

The Department of Education is pleased to announce that their program to preserve the school-to-debt pipeline is proceeding apace. You may...

Congress must not abdicate its responsibility to help all children succeed. That's Arne Duncan, responding to the proposed Lamar Alexa...

We're coming down to the wire on your chance to speak out about one of the dumbest ideas to come out of a Department of Education that ...

The USED is ready to forge the next link in the Great Chain of Effectiveness. We're already familiar with the two links. The very firs...

The holidays are over, life is back to normal(ish), and your classroom has hit that post-holiday stride. It is time to finally make your voi...

At Politico, Caitlin Emma took a pretty thorough look at the state of high stakes testing in this country, with a particular eye toward the...

I've been looking at the application materials for the Department of Education's teacher ambassadorship. After all, I am always up t...

Folks who are invested in the education debates can be excused for getting two issues slightly confused in the last month. Arne Duncan's...