The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93 and New York ...

When Michelle Rhee, ex-Superintendent of D.C. schools and serial prevaricator (which is a much nicer word than “liar”), decided to leave Students First, the education reform/privatization group she ...

America’s decades-long, bipartisan “education reform” movement, defined by an obsession with test scores and by viewing education largely as a tool for getting people higher-paying jobs, is finally in ...

Ruth Batson's grassroots organizing in the education reform movement led to the creation of the METCO program, which has ...

Mourners gathered to honor the life of Norman Fruchter, a civil rights activist and member of the Education Reform Movement, after he was struck and killed by a reckless driver in Bay Ridge on Jan. 4.

I remember the first time I met Dan Willingham. I had just joined the Core Knowledge Foundation and Dan, a board member and esteemed University of Virginia cognitive scientist, was giving a talk at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several years ago, fresh from my South Bronx fifth-grade classroom and still feeling my way through the unfamiliar world of public ...

Despite all the headlines about parents’ appetite for school choice programs, little has been reported about what this means for teachers. For instance, in several states such as Florida and Arizona, ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Bronx School of Young Leaders in 2014. (AP Photo/New York Daily News, Enid Alvarez/Pool) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

This week marks the third anniversary of the launching of AEI Education’s Conservative Education Reform Network (CERN). And it has been quite the three years for the conservative education reform ...