(Time) – When I started playing basketball as a freshman at UCLA, coach John Wooden told us a bunch of crazy ideas about useless drills we...
(Politico) – Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a mild-mannered, even-tempered, introverted kind of guy, but he’s spent much of his six and a half years in...
By Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Stressed-out students in England recently received a little help with their anxiety after school...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his plan for two years of free community college stalled in Congress, President Barack Obama is trying to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Truancy among Black students has far-ranging consequences, not just as a predictor for low academic achievement,...
Christine Armario, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Year after year in measure after measure, Black, Latino, and Native American students trail their White peers...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Recognizing that a college degree is one of the surest paths to a job and economic security,...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, in criticizing liberals on school choice, referred to “idiot inner-city kids.” In a...
For more than a century, descendants of enslaved Africans could be punished or put to death for learning to read or arming themselves. The strategy: Keep...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Congress works toward a comprehensive education policy that will replace the Bush Administration’s No Child Left...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times This past Thursday, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Trustees voted...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As students slip into their summer vacations, it’s up to families to make sure they don’t slip...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a...
SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four years after taking union rights away from teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker...
(The Washington Post) – Starting next school year, any parent in Nevada can pull a child from the state’s public schools and take tax dollars...
By Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Beginning with pregnancy and continuing until the child is ready to enter the third...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Parents, students and advocates for strong neighborhood schools continue to pressure civic leaders to end the expansion...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Students in 11 states and the District of Columbia will spend less time next year taking tests based on...
by Courtney Jacobs Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper An African-American eighth-grader was recently arrested for throwing Skittles on a bus in Louisiana. According...
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is trying to shake up a top-down system of teaching, end an elite bilingual program and give schools...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press SALLY HO, Associated Press NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at Cuyama Valley...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Call this the year of the test. Or, at least the year of standardized test mania. Standardized test...
by Johnny Taylor, MIT, MBA Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Over the last group of weeks we have been covering Technology in...
(Politico) – Last week, a parade of educators filed into an Atlanta courtroom to be sentenced for their roles in the test-cheating scandal that has...
