A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association New Orleans, a community organization, has found that two-thirds of New Orleans public schools had registration forms that could discourage undocumented...

The Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School has released a report that concludes that Chicago’s massive experiment with charter schools has been a failure.

U.S. students scored in the middle of the pack among the 44 countries and regions participating in the first-ever international assessment of students’ creative problem-solving skills.

U.S. clothing retailers are lagging European brands in signing onto an accord for factory safety in Bangladesh.

A new report says the State of Louisiana has failed to adequately monitor its publicly funded charter schools to confirm that the schools’ reported numbers of graduates, dropouts and student attendance are true.

Despite lawsuits filed by parents and concerns raised by independent hearing officers, the Chicago Board of Education on May 22 approved closing 49 schools, just four fewer than the 53 it had announced earlier this year.

For the first time, Hispanics are entering college at a greater rate than white or black students, a new report shows. Their rate of enrollment in college has risen to 70 percent.

Private foundations are giving an increasing amount of money to education. But they are directing it to a shrinking number of groups, and the losers are public schools and public universities.

With information and news sources proliferating on social media and the Internet, educators say it is increasingly important to teach students how to separate fact from fiction.

Michelle Rhee's record under scrutiny, new science standards, and other news from around the country.