Charter schools are spreading throughout America. Charters are public schools that are allowed wide latitude to work outside the traditional public-school model.

Nicholas Aynilian has plans to build a pair of five-store strip malls at 39 and 40 Kinderkamack Road.

In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 photo, students walk through the campus of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.

Last night I was re-reading a terrific little book from 1976 by Don Martin, George Overholt, and Wayne Urban: Accountability in American Education: A Critique .

Kim Chang-ryul, a member of K-pop group DJ DOC and a sophomore at Kyung Hee Cyber University, has given his performance fees from school events and commercials to underprivileged students at the university as scholarships, the school said Sunday.

State Ed chief John King has two weeks to negotiate a teacher rating plan with the union - or Gov.

Fort Morgan's Board of Education will hold a work session Monday to discuss progress on the search for a superintendent to replace the retiring Greg Wagers.

EYE ON THE FORECAST A mild and humid Saturday morning with patchy fog, then mostly cloudy and warm with only isolated afternoon or evening showers.

Executives at Western Association for Schools and Colleges do not anticipate major ramifications in the wake of scandal at Claremont McKenna College earlier this week.

Every week we set out to answer a question submitted by one of our readers as part of our You Ask...Patch Answers column.

High school students across the state are preparing to take the SATs, which can lead to a lot of stress.

How many times have you heard it: Our kids are falling behind, or America needs more scientists and mathematicians.

A magazine has dropped Claremont McKenna College from its best private liberal arts colleges list because the school reported inflated SAT scores.

State Rep. Mary Helen Garcia may have created enough middle ground to get through one of the most divisive bills legislators are considering.

When I graduated high school from Notre Dame in Fairfield it was 1997. And as a teenager, my only outlet for gay culture, as sad as it sounds, was the infamous coming out episode on the "Ellen" show and Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window." As a gay, closeted teen I would often sneak down to my father's office, wait the five minutes it took for ... (more)

Teachers in New Mexico may be evaluated under a new system within a few years, if any of three legislative bills making their way through the Roundhouse this session are signed into law.

Standardized testing is nothing new in North Carolina. Last year Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools added tests to help gauge how well teachers are teaching.

Society trusts teachers and school administrators to deliver a lesson arguably more important than reading and math: Cheating is not only forbidden but dishonorable.

Vallejo Unified School District Superintendent Ramona Bishop talks Wednesday about the disproportionality of schools to an Achievement Gap Focus group at Solano Middle School.

It wasn't a gift from a friend or a family member, but rather a letter to inform her she was selected as one of First Tee's 66 scholars this year.