Lawmakers haven't adjusted per-pupil state funding for public education in 13 years. This year, they could raise it—and tie ...

Once reconciled and signed by Governor Healey, the legislation will mark a major increase in state oversight of local school districts.

Thanks in old age — thanks ere I go, For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air — for life, mere life.” — Walt Whitman.

State Senate leadership released Monday a comprehensive early literacy reform bill, with plans to follow their House ...

MPS leaders are switching literacy curriculum midyear to better align with the "science of reading" and the state's literacy ...

Unlike other states, Oregon funds its 197 school districts but does little to hold them to account for their outcomes.

Coffey: What never sat right with me was the research community’s view that a teacher’s experience didn’t matter much after ...

There’s this focus on K-3 without a lot of resources dedicated to helping the kids in secondary school who fell through the ...

A ‘NOVA’ special examines the question of canine communication—and whether the internet’s viral ‘button dogs’ have any actual ...

Like many people, when I entered the world of education policy, I encountered a trove of education research that was new to me but that largely tracked with my prior experiences as a teacher. Working ...

In his annual State of the Schools address, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti noted several places the district has grown while state averages dipped.

Almost every state has overhauled elementary school reading programs. But one group of students is getting left behind.