U.S. Ed Secretary DeVos has approved plans for 46 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Still waiting: California, Florida, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Nebraska's education department released an interactive instructional materials map last week, showing what curricula districts have adopted for English-language arts, math, and K-8 science.

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt.

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

The ability to discern fact from fiction and to recognize reliable news is fundamental, writes News Literacy Project’s Charles Salter.

The demand for substitute teacher positions is outpacing the supply, and the quality of those applying is a concern in many places.

“Vaccines are a choice and people have the choice and will have the choice in this state as to whether or not they should take that vaccine,” the governor said.

With many students working remotely, there’s no point in administering assessments that ask students to come up with a single answer; it’s simply too easy to cheat.

Previous studies can provide a window into why math learning is taking a big hit during the pandemic, and what educators can do about it.

The change under consideration would make the reading test less accurate not more, writes E.D. Hirsch Jr.

A collection of articles from the previous week that you may have missed.

Activists expect to see renewed guidance, more active enforcement, and better data collection coming from the Education Department’s civil rights office.

Consistent, science-based messaging is crucial, but the new administration still faces political headwinds and a skeptical public.

State of the States: Latest governor's address before the legislature.

After being dealt a financial setback for the 2003-04 school year, educational technology in Alabama is looking at a brighter future.

Court-ordered school desegregation has been more successful in the South than in any other region of the country, but researchers have noted a new threat: the growing number of communities that are seceding from larger school districts to form their own.

Board members didn't act on a resolution to revoke Alabama's version of the Common Core State Standards.

The state's last superintendent resigned under pressure after he attempted to take over Montgomery's school system and figure out a way to grade the state's schools.

In his 2008 State of the State speech, Gov. Riley urged lawmakers to expand the state’s prekindergarten program and protect some of his K-12 initiatives from budget cuts.