MEXICO HEADS BACK TO SCHOOL WITH FLAWED TEXTBOOKS
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON FILE – In this April 9, 2013 file photo, primary school students study in their classroom in Acapulco, Mexico. Children in Mexico will find new textbooks…
Student testing
AP-NORC POLL: PARENTS BACK HIGH-STAKES TESTING
By PHILIP ELLIOTT and JENNIFER AGIESTA FILE – In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Burgess-Peterson Elementary School principal Robin Robbins, center, meets with students during an after-school study program…
30 YEARS AFTER REPORT, SCHOOLS REMAIN AT RISK
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this March 12, 1984, file photo, President Ronald Reagan gets some instructions on computer operations while visiting the Congress Heights Elementary School in Washington.…
TEXAS RETHINKING ITS TESTING, CURRICULUM STANDARDS
By WILL WEISSERT Socar Chatmon-Thomas, center, stands with her daughters Isabella, left, and Guinevere, right, outside their school in Austin, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2013. Texas has been a…
3 DOZEN INDICTED IN ATLANTA CHEATING SCANDAL
By KATE BRUMBACK FILE – In this June 13, 2011 file photo, outgoing schools superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall, center, arrives for her last Atlanta school board meeting at the Atlanta…