Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all... Read more...
As Chicago Public Schools have become increasingly dependent on the police department to control student behavior on school grounds, a disproportionately high number of black juveniles are being thrust into the criminal justice system too early and too easily, according to data from a new report iss... Read more...
The majority of school teachers recently laid off by the Chicago Board of Education are people of color, and hardest hit are African teachers in schools serving African American students, according to a new analysis released today by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). An analysis of Chicago Public S... Read more...
For 20 years, the Chicago Public Schools have tried it all. High-stakes tests, decentralization, ending social promotion, shuttering failing schools and opening new ones. And through it all, reading scores in the city's weakest elementary schools largely haven't budged, an exhaustive ... Read more...
Pennsylvania is one step closer to finding out just how much teacher cheating occurred on its 2009 standardized tests as cities nationwide try to make sense of the phenomenon. On Monday, the state reported that it had received 83 percent of districts' internal probes into schools suspected of cheat... Read more...
Black Star Project, a Chicago-based organization that launched the Million Father March, which encourages fathers to escort their children to school on the first day of class, now wants fathers to make an additional commitment to their children's education. "We are asking fathers and other si... Read more...