A consortium of four states will try to reinvent secondary schools at the practical and policy levels.

Researchers offer two potential explanations for their much-debated findings on NAEP math performance in public and private schools.

Outgoing Secretary Spellings approves more states for flexibility and tells each state where it stands under the federal education law.

State officials credit the setting and refinement of academic standards, as well as efforts to translate them for teachers, as prime factors behind the progress.

Dismayed by a school district’s loss of accreditation because of its former school board’s behavior, business leaders, educators, and other experts across Georgia have worked for months to craft recommendations for avoiding such disasters in the future.

“Are schools measured as high-performing by their accountability systems actually better schools? And could others learn from them what to do better?” asks Heinrich Mintrop.