Claudio Sanchez
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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More state control of public schools is on the horizon. -
Goodbye, No Child Left BehindCongress appears ready to overhaul the nation's most important federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Civil rights groups, though, worry that some changes will hurt poor and minority children. -
The resignation of the head of the University of Missouri System raises an important question: How should he have responded? -
New research finds impressive academic gains from the city's vaunted preschool program now that its first graduates are beginning high school. -
So your kid is off to college. You've spent months navigating the financial aid process and meticulously budgeted for all sorts of out-of-pocket expenses — or so you thought.
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High Schoolers And Snooze Buttons: A Public Health Crisis?Pre-dawn school start times are unhealthy and must change, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
George Washington University is the latest and one of the largest private universities to drop its admissions testing requirement. -
The Senate may have voted to replace NCLB, but one of the old law's chief architects argues that much of it should stay just the way it is. -
Jonathan Kozol looks back on events he wrote about 50 years ago, in Death at an Early Age, that reveal how an elementary school treated black children in 1960s Boston.
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Since the mid-1990s, Texas has treated truancy as a criminal offense. Now, state lawmakers say that was a mistake.