Read Secretary Duncan's remarks to state leaders about Race to the Top Assessment winners and the next generation of assessments.

Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Wisconsin are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs.

Secretary Duncan and other Obama administration officials announced a $1.8 billion agreement to help renovate and rebuild schools in New Orleans.

Secretary Duncan is taking a bus tour to visit schools, honor and listen to teachers, meet with parents and students, and highlight success. See video, photos, and stories in the blog.

Secretary Duncan discussed his Back to School Tour and the Obama Administration's education agenda, and he thanked America's teachers -- "our unsung heroes" -- in Little Rock, AR.

The case opens as federal officials, in a separate ruling, determine that state ELL practices violate federal civil rights law.

The releasing of criminal arrest records of licensed teachers amounts to a misdemeanor, frustrating officials who say more transparency is needed for parents to know their children are safe.

A third state consortium that applied for a smaller Race to the Top grant to build high school exams failed to garner an award.

In a study released today, researchers found that middle school students lost more academic ground than they might have had they stayed in elementary school longer.

Kim Marshall argues that, rather than rewarding individual teachers for good test scores, we create incentives for teachers to work together to improve learning.

With dishonesty now a virtual classroom norm, writes Christopher L. Doyle, talking openly with students about it might help teachers seek solutions.

This study tested 51 characteristics of bullying victimization, bullying victims, and bullying victim' schools to determine which were associated with reporting to school officials. It found that 11 characteristics in two categories—bullying victimization and bullying victims—showed a statistically significant association with reporting. The study also notes the high percentage (64 percent) of respondents who experienced bullying but did not report it.

See how the WWC rated the research on Ladders to Literacy, a supplemental early literacy curriculum designed to develop children's print/book awareness, metalinguistic awareness, and oral language skills.

Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition is a reading and writing program for students in grades 2 through 6 that includes story-related activities, direct instruction in reading comprehension, and integrated language arts/writing.

This new report looks at the research on Fast ForWord, a computer-based reading program intended to help students develop and strengthen phonemic and phonological awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and memory skills.

The first High School Math report reviews the research on the combination of Carnegie Learning Curricula and Cognitive Tutor Software. See how the WWC rated the research on this curriculum.

Two groups of 44 states will use the $330 million in federal money to design better annual reading and math tests.

Arne Duncan’s bus tour from New York to Maine is billed as a way to honor teachers.

A new curriculum at N.Y.U. is intended to foster more personal relationships between medical students and patients.

Bret D. Schundler, the former education commissioner, emphatically denied misleading anyone in an episode that cost New Jersey a $400 million grant.

The federal government awarded $330 million Thursday to two groups that are developing new student assessment systems for the District, Maryland and dozens of other states in an effort to upgrade their much-maligned standardized tests. Education - Educational - Social Sciences - United States - testing

The D.C. government could not properly account for how it spent almost $325,000 in federal grant money intended to enhance state and local law enforcement, according to an audit report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Justice Department. Grant - Business - United States - Audit - Washington

The D.C. Youth Orchestra Program has operated for nearly a half-century at Coolidge High School in Northwest. Last month, the nonprofit music program moved a few miles south to Eastern High School in Northeast. United States - People - Calvin Coolidge - Arts and Entertainment - Youth

Jeannie Kauffman and her three children represent two distinct generations of Garrett Park Elementary schoolers. Kauffman attended the school as did her daughter, Ashley, 13, who is now a seventh-grader at Pyle Middle School. United States - Counties - Montgomery - Maryland - Time Warner Cable