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My long-time friend and source Ken Bernstein, known as teacherken to his many online fans, produced the most-read article on the Post’s Web site recently. He apologized to college professors for our high schools’ failure to prepare students “for the kind of intellectual work that you have every right to expect of them.”

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If you listen to folks such as Bill Gates and Al Gore and Carlos Slim Helu talk about Salman Khan, it would be understandable if you thought that the founder of the online Khan Academy is an education miracle worker.

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Do you think pushing academic instruction into gym class might defeat its primary purpose of getting students to be physically active?

What is Unit 61398 and who is the "Comment Crew"?

Can you calculate the value of BlackBerry stock when it was at its highest point?

"It's crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all." That's the opening line in a video called "If students designed their own schools," about The Independent Project, a high school semester designed and implemented entirely by students.

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This word has appeared in three New York Times articles in the past year.

It is no longer enough in some schools for students to run around during gym. Now they are often taught math or English or health at the same time.

Richard L. Murphy, a Dinkins administration official who died last week, faced false accusations, but he’ll be remembered for the community centers he helped create.

Students are teaming up to do quick online research to feed to debaters in real time for honing arguments and articulating rebuttals.

A new law empowering the governor and stripping the state schools chief of authority draws political pushback.

New research suggests that a significant proportion of students placed in college remedial courses don't need them.

The nation must act urgently to close the achievement gap between poor and privileged children by changing the way public schools are financed, improving teacher quality, investing in early-childhood education and demanding greater accountability down to the local school board level, according to a report issued Tuesday by an expert panel.

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Congress has yet to decide when or whether to start work on long-overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

A state district court judge ruled the Texas school financing system unconstitutional, cheering hundreds of local districts that had sued.