Lorenzo Garcia, former superintendent in El Paso, Texas, will spend 42 months in prison and will pay $180,000 in restitution and an additional $56,500 in fines, after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud this summer. Read Full Post >
The College Board has redesigned AP programs for U.S. history and physics, reducing the amount of content coverage to allow more time for studying key concepts. Read Full Post >
Let's think of three, four, or at most five issues we could unite on, principles that might cut across some of the unnecessarily warring parties. Read Full Post >
The $25 million federal grant used to establish the center is one of many the federal Education Department has announced in recent weeks that involve special education. Read Full Post >
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution finds that most oversights in most states put them at risk for large-scale cheating on state tests. Read Full Post >
A common-standards advocate argues that many aspects of American education will have to change if schooling is to fully reflect the new expectations. Read Full Post >
Is it bad to teach to the test? Read Full Post >
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has filed a complaint against New York City's Specialized High Schools' admissions process. It says that over-reliance on a less-than-perfect test leads to disproportionately low numbers of African-American and Latino students at the schools. Read Full Post >
States' plans to use the common assessments as exit exams spark a warning from a Washington research-and-policy group. Read Full Post >
Just 5 percent of 8th graders and 5 percent of 12th graders who took the new National Assessment of Educational Progress in writing earned a score at or above the "proficient" level. Read Full Post >
