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Judge me by the results," Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in May 2002 as the state legislature gave him absolute control of New York City 's schools. Everyone who cared about improving education in the city, it seemed, was smiling.

By Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Alaska or Arkansas, Tennessee or Texas - participants in our Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest face a serious double bind in 2006 if they want to memorize and recite free verse masterworks.

by Tom Shuford - " In Maryland and Virginia public schools, statewide exams are a cause for perpetual celebration, " the Washington Post reported a few weeks ago. " Scores go up almost every year in virtually every grade level and subject tested. "

by Ruth Conniff
Our oldest child is going to kindergarten this fall, and we are caught up in the back-to-school frenzy. We have to get school supplies, and I notice one telling change since we were kids:

by Deborah Meier
When my friends and colleagues get together to talk about our best work, I note that sometimes we compare it, with pride, to “public schools”. At other times I hear adults in charter schools

Six past presidents of the American Academy of Pediatrics, bestselling child health author Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and more than two dozen other leading U.S. pediatricians,

The secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education recently released a fourth (and, most likely, final) draft of its soon-to-be-released report on higher education in the United States.

CHADD is pleased that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday, September 2, released the results of a national survey that documents that 4.4 million, or 7.8 percent, of 4-17 year old children have a parent-reported history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)

el F. Shaughnessy
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
Steven King once wrote in one of his books about the most horrific experience of his life. He was taking his child to kindergarten on the first day of school to hand his child over to a teacher.

New Book Details Tactics for General Educators to Use in the Classroom -COLUMBIA, Mo. - School reforms and the No Child Left Behind Act have made it more important than ever to take a preventative approach to young children at risk for failure, according to a new book released this week by a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia.