Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education released a series of videos online highlighting schools that were once considered “low-performing,” but have undergone transformations that turned them into “high-achieving” schools.
The video series, titled “Voices of …

Above, watch the newly-released official trailer for the film Waiting For Supermanfrom Paramount Vantage.
The education documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed the 2006 global warming hit An Inconvenient Truth, and it’s been making …

Friday, March 12, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• The Kansas City school board approved closing 29 out of 61 schools earlier …

Today’s Washington Post contains a column by Melinda Gates, who, along with her husband Bill Gates, has long been an advocate for education reform.
In this article, she voices her optimism in favor of the government’s Race …

A documentary filmmaker’s goal is to inform, inspire, and sometimes enrage. With the topic of education reform growing ever hotter in the collective conscious of American society, we’re seeing an abundance of documentaries focusing on this …

Obama has proposed increased spending towards education despite cutting budgets almost everywhere else. Most notably, his administration is planning to overhaul the last administration’s infamous No Child Left Behind law.
But with the new funds that Obama …