I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board has set out specific goals to address low-performing schools and low student achievement. One of the goals is aimed at increasing high school student ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board took a first stab Tuesday at new five-year academic goals designed to prepare more students for success in school and adult life. Members spent almost five hours ...

Oregon’s State Board of Education has approved Gov. Tina Kotek’s academic plan to raise eighth-grade math proficiency from 29% to 52% by 2030. The initiative, part of Senate Bill 141, allows for ...

Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark each created a mathematics goal that they wanted to complete before the end of the year. Each student wrote his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oklahoma City Board of Education Chairperson Paula Lewis, right, speaks during a hearing May 7 at the Clara Luper Center for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders say lower-than-expected results in state reading and math scores released last week will ...

Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State ...

College classes are hard. As an agriculture communications student back in the day I remember wondering why I needed to learn certain skills — like advanced math. I mean, my communications focus was ...