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Loudoun County School Board members, many of whom campaigned to expand school choice, turned down their only pending charter school application Tuesday night after months of scrutiny and a storm of allegations that the applicants have hidden ties to a Muslim preacher.

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The SAT, the most widely used college entrance exam for generations of students, is getting a makeover.

David Coleman, president of the College Board, which creates and administers the SAT, e-mailed his 6,000 members on Tuesday to inform them that the board will redesign the test to more sharply focus on the “core set of knowledge and skills” that high school graduates need to succeed in college.

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One struggling D.C. charter school will shrink at the end of this academic year, another will be acquired by a high-performing school and a third will close if it fails to show improvement over the next several months, the D.C. Public Charter School Board decided Monday.

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Three weeks after a 10-year-old Alexandria boy was arrested for showing a toy gun to another student on a school bus, prosecutors dropped charges against the child Tuesday, and his record was scrubbed clean.

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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center looks at six-year graduation rates for first-time college students who enrolled in fall 2006.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan eyes March for deciding whether to open the door to district-level NCLB waivers in states that haven’t won them.

President Obama's proposal for a Race to the Top-style competition aimed at high schools has yet to be fleshed out.

Many would welcome federal aid to boost early-education programs, but are wary it could come with strings attached.

A research project in the city schools is comparing two different professional development approaches that incorporate technology.

A federal panel proposes a five-pronged agenda aimed at helping children in poverty and eliminating the achievement gap.

The common-core standards may be paving the way for more uniform definitions for deciding who gets ELL services.

Efforts to promote an evolving area of study—entrepreneurship in education—are taking hold in graduate schools across the country.

Character education is on the upswing as research points to its effectiveness and policymakers seek ways to curb improper behavior.

The famed SAT college admissions exam will undergo a thorough redesign by the College Board, which is calling it an "ambitious effort" to "better meet" the needs of students and schools.

The SAT, first given in 1926, was revamped less than a decade ago when a written essay was added and some of the question formats were changed. Last year, for the first time, it lost its designation as the most popular college admissions exam to the ACT, by a margin of a few thousand students.

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