Cory Turner

Students of color, low-income students, students with disabilities and English learners have all made gains.

A new survey from Sesame Workshop found that parents and teachers worry a lot about kindness — what it looks like, how to cultivate it and why there isn't enough of it in the world.

A new study by researchers at Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black boys, expecting trouble.

More choice, no Common Core, and a gutting of the U.S. Education Department.

A Connecticut Superior Court judge wrote a scathing indictment of his state's public education system. We've curated the 10 best lines.

A sweeping ruling from a superior court judge in Connecticut could mean historic changes for the state's schools, including how it funds its poorest districts.

Connecticut has built a safety net that will send a child-behavior expert to any daycare or pre-K in the state that's having trouble with a disruptive child.

New "supplement not supplant" rules, meant to balance spending between rich and poor schools, have critics gnashing their teeth.

Detroit and Birmingham, Ala., top a new national list of school district boundaries that separate the haves from the have nots.

A group of lawmakers and staff with the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures spent a year and a half studying the best school systems in the world. Here's what they learned.

Summer's in full swing, and parents are trying all kinds of things to keep their kids reading. Here's a guide to what works and what doesn't.

Lasers and lava and mummies, oh my! Here are the exhibits that kids and their grown-ups love the most from 10 of the nation's best children's museums.

A test that can flag struggling readers before they're old enough to read and the power of music to help a child hear language. A literacy two-fer from the NPR Ed Team.

What separates good preschool from bad? A new report maps out some key answers by studying successful programs.

In a follow-up to its School Money series, the NPR Ed Team reports on three states that have, in recent weeks, made news for big challenges to their school funding systems: Texas, Arizona and Kansas.

Thousands of children in public pre-K, especially black preschoolers, are suspended each year. The problems are clear. So are some fixes.

In the age-old fight between hard work and talent, researcher Anders Ericsson says it's no contest. Practice wins the day.

Congress and the Education Department are fighting over how to prove that federal dollars for at-risk students aren't being misused at the local level.

There are huge gaps in school funding between affluent and property-poor districts. And, with evidence that money matters, especially for disadvantaged kids, something has to change.

It's one of the loudest debates in education: whether spending more money adds up to better test scores and graduation rates.