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In response to the courts, class is replacing race as the primary basis for desegregating schools. It’s a mix that just might work.

Rising test scores highlight a year of ambitious change at the beleaguered Newton Street School in Newark.

The finding is a step toward forcing property owners to sell their land as part of eminent domain proceedings to make way for the expansion of Columbia University.

Representative Charles B. Rangel said he would ask the House ethics committee to look into whether he had violated rules by using a Congressional letterhead to raise money for City College.

Graduation rates are widely considered among the most crucial indicators of whether a system is working, but New York State has not yet reported the percentage for the Class of 2007.

Unable to handle behavior disorders, many schools use forcible restraint. Is it abuse?

Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged children.

The new schools—the largest number to open in the city in a single year—will bring the number of charter schools in the city to 78, serving 24,000 students.

The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks.

Students and faculty at Norwalk Community College plan to step up efforts to force a redesign of a health and science center that would abide by more stringent standards for energy efficiency.

This week, James D. Merriman IV, the chief executive of the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, is answering readers' questions.

As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education.

Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students.

A program offering up to $1,000 for scoring well on Advanced Placement exams yielded relatively flat results, adding fuel to the debate over how to motivate students.

Ten years after leaders promised to work toward universal pre-kindergarten programs, fewer than 38 percent of 4-year-olds attend state-financed classes.

Gains outweighed the losses in the effort by college presidents to lower the drinking age, as 15 more signed on, for a total of 123.

The price increases, generally about 25 cents a meal, come as school districts in New York and across the country try to eke more out of already tight budgets.

The debate at Hofstra caps a prolonged effort by the university to have a voice in the nation’s political discourse.

David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.