In a 7-1 vote, the Indiana State Board of Education recommended that state lawmakers impose stricter rules on virtual charter school and the agencies that oversee them. The proposed rules would stop school districts from overseeing virtual schools, eliminate a fee structure, and limit the growth of new and chronically underperforming virtual schools. Nearly 10 […]

America’s inequality problem is bigger than Harvard, the University of Michigan or the SAT. But there are steps universities can take to ease the application process for low-income students. A new study suggests that low-income high school students are more likely to apply to selective colleges if they’re aware that they can receive financial aid. […]

In urban areas across the country that give parents significant choice over where to send their kids to school, educational stratification and racial segregation is usually exacerbated. The result is that even when urban districts improve a little, they struggle to improve a lot because middle-class parents choose to send their children elsewhere. In recent […]

This year, the media has exposed a string of harms to individual privacy by the technology sector’s leading firms. But policymakers must intervene specifically to protect the most vulnerable people in our society: children. Their behavioral data is continuously suctioned up by technology firms through tablets, smartphones and computers and is at risk of being […]

StudySync is collaborating with The News Literacy Project (NLP), a nonprofit organization that helps educate middle and high school students about how to separate fact from opinion in media reports. NLP will provide articles and video content for StudySync’s SyncBlasts product. StudySync is partnering with The News Literacy Project (NLP), a non-profit organization that helps […]

More Colorado students use school choice to opt into traditional district-run schools than use it to attend charter schools. Those who do so are more likely to be white and middle- or upper-class than their peers. And transportation continues to be a barrier for students who want to go somewhere other than their neighborhood school, […]

Coby Dennis, the Boise School District’s deputy superintendent, has been picked to serve as superintendent. He will take over from Superintendent Don Coberly, who is retiring at the end of the 2018-19 school year. The Boise School District Board of Trustees Thursday approved the appointment of current Deputy Superintendent Coby Dennis to serve as Superintendent […]

Abby Dolliver, superintendent of Norwich Public Schools, announced her intent to retire at the end of the 2018-19 academic year. She has served as superintendent since 2010, and has worked in the Norwich system for nearly 30 years. Superintendent of Norwich Public Schools Abby Dolliver on Tuesday announced her intent to retire at the end […]