Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in ...

Ernest Houle grew up in Leominster, a working-class city in central Massachusetts. His two older brothers had gone to the local vocational high school, so he did too. He thought he would do better ...

Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...

The number of people on the nation's sex-offender registries has exploded to hundreds of thousands. But researchers question the registries' effectiveness, note their inconsistencies and suggest they ...

In the early 1990s an American researcher named Catherine Lewis was working on a book about education in Japan. The book had nothing to do with how kids learned math, but sitting for hours in Japanese ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

When a juvenile correctional facility in northern Minnesota closed three years ago after news reports exposed mistreatment of minors, the state's most populous county had a dilemma: Should it send ...

Co-reported by Tom Scheck of APM Reports and Scott Tong of Marketplace. WASHINGTON — Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year made critical changes at the eleventh hour to a ...

When Alfredo Lopez was 10 years old, he and his siblings were kicked out of school. "All I can remember that we were sent home one day," said Lopez, 49. "And they said we couldn't come back to school.

To get to the 99A college prep English class at California's San Quentin State Prison, you pass through two security checks, two gates and a very thick, very old metal door that looks medieval. You ...