More than 350 community leaders came together last Saturday in Phoenix for the White House’s Hispanic Community Action Summit at the ASU-Downtown Campus.

"Teacher voice is needed in order for real reform to take place," Secretary Arne Duncan told the leaders of Teach Plus on Tuesday.

On January 31, the Department of Education hosted its quarterly conference call for education funders.

To follow up on the President's State of the Union Address--in which critical topics like college affordability, dropout rates, teachers, and job training were addressed--Secretary Duncan will engage with the Hispanic community through a Twitter town hall at 3:00 p.m.

If you made payments on your federal student loans during 2011, you may be eligible to deduct a portion of the interest you paid on your federal tax return.  Student loan interest payments are reported on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) … Continue reading →

As Web users increasingly chronicle their emotional ups and downs on social networking sites, psychologists see the Internet's potential to prevent a mental health crisis.

Recent events have increased interest in district policies relating to student substance use and whether they best serve the needs of their communities and students. To better understand the nature of the policies that may be in use around the country, the Institute of Education Sciences commissioned a study to examine the features of the written substance-related policies for the 100 largest school districts in the country.

The National Center for Education Research, within the Institute of Education Sciences, is pleased to announce its sixth Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials. This Training Institute is held to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. When: July 15 – 26, 2012 Where: Northwestern University; Evanston, IL All applications must be received no later than March 16, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. ET. For more information about the Training Institute, including the application procedures, please visit: http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=965 If you need assistance, please contact Dr. Christina Chhin, at (202) 219-2280 or christina.chhin@ed.gov

Many students graduate from high school unprepared for the rigorous reading required in entry-level college and career work. This 2006-2011 REL Southwest at Edvance Research Technical Brief, How prepared are subgroups of Texas students for college-level reading? Applying a Lexile-based approach, builds on a recent report (Wilkins et al. 2010) that used the Lexile measure to estimate the proportion of Texas grade 11 public school students in 2009 ready for entry-level college reading in English. The previous study examined the overall grade 11 Texas student population; this brief uses the same methodology but disaggregates the data by student subgroup.

This study, English language proficiency levels of limited-English-proficient students in Idaho, examines statewide results on the Idaho English Language Assessment (IELA), the federally mandated annual assessment Idaho administers to all limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. It documents the distribution of LEP students across English proficiency levels on the IELA in 2010 and compares it with results for 2007. It shows how the distribution varied for LEP students by grade spans in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. It also compared results across subgroups of LEP students based on gender, participation in the free or reduced-price lunch program, Spanish as the primary language, enrollment in a U.S. public school for the first time in the previous 12 months, migrant status, and enrollment in special education.

This study, Plans to adopt and implement Common Core State Standards in the Southeast Region states, produced by the 2006-2011 REL Southeast at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro examines the processes for adopting and implementing the common standards and aligning assessment programs to the common standards in the Southeast Region states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina). The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort to establish a common set of expectations for what K-12 students are expected to know and be able to do in English language arts and math. The Common Core State Standards were released in June 2010. As of November 2011, 45 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories have adopted the standards and were planning to implement them and align assessments to them.

The condition makes it harder to learn to read. But it also seems to offer visual advantages.

The Chester Upland district’s fiscal woes – so severe that it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month – are compounded by a charter school with which it shares its financing.

New York Times reporting on Yale’s Patrick Witt and his quest for a Rhodes scholarship left important issues unresolved, and some readers thought it was unfair.

Victor Cruz, the Giants’ leading receiver, followed a winding road to the N.F.L., including twice being kicked out of UMass for academic reasons.

Students' tuition would be 5% of their income for 20 years after entering the workforce.

Journal editors browbeat researchers into citing their journals in studies, a survey suggests, a practice perverting the scholarly record.

The Obama administration is asking every U.S. school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks.

An administrator at Claremont McKenna College admitted he falsified SAT scores to publications such as U.S. News & World Report.