Education News

Only 26 percent were ready for college-level work in all four core areas. Another 19 percent were not adequately prepared in any of them.

Texas Instruments, whose calculators helped make the company a household name, has found a way to help teachers quickly identify students who may be failing math, Chief Executive Rich Templeton said Monday.

The program gives novices the ability to create dynamic programs without wading through a manual, teaching computer programming concepts while encouraging students to play

Gordon argues that China and India will crush the United States unless there are substantial improvements to American science education.

Colleges seeking a competitive edge are increasingly enlisting and sometimes paying student bloggers to chronicle their lives online.

Teachers: Step down as the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side.

Over the objections of school administrators and parents, the Montana Board of Public Education on Friday unanimously passed an online-education proposal backed by the teachers’ union.

The summit in Washington is carrying forward the momentum that’s been building for the past few years in response to some sobering statistics: About 3 out of 10 American ninth-graders don’t graduate with their class – with the ratio climbing to nearly half for African-Americans, Hispanics, and native Americans.

Wisconsin is rolling out the nation’s most expansive guarantee of higher education to students in hopes of raising aspirations and improving preparedness.

We can no longer take for granted
America’s continued leadership in innovation and
competitiveness. We face the risk of losing the
highly trained workforce
that is essential to maintain
our economic leadership.