A Tufts University study finds that while the District and 20 states do discuss the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in their high school social studies curricula, they don't have much context or detail. Fourteen states don't mention the attacks at all in texts that have been updated since 2001.
While the researchers don't want states that [...]

According to a recent report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, the District continues to do a lousy job of educating black male students. Still, there are signs of racial progress—it's also not doing so well educating white male students.
Graduation rates for both groups dropped for the 2007-2008 school year. The [...]

D.C. Council Chairman and Mayoral Hopeful Vincent Gray has announced that he will finally roll out his education plan tomorrow at 2 p.m. Here are the details from the press release:
"The event, to be held tomorrow at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School, comes days after Gray participated in an education forum [...]

The Issue: Southeastern University, a private school founded 130 years ago by the YMCA near the Southwest Waterfront, has gone the way of the Titanic—and taxpayer’s money is going down with the ship. According to the Washington Examiner, three months before the Middle States Commission on Higher Education yanked the school’s accreditation, the floundering university [...]

Kurt Schmoke—former Baltimore mayor and now dean of Howard University's law school—has been selected to mediate the monthslong dispute over a new teachers contract, according to a joint statement released this evening by the D.C. Public Schools, the Washington Teachers' Union, and the American Federation of Teachers.
"Our goal is to begin [...]

In his column for this week Education Issue, LL delved into 17 months worth of Michelle Rhee's official schedule, obtained through a public records request. The column details the DCPS chancellor's travel and explores how she's inserted herself into a web of private foundations, think tanks, civic groups, and other organizations—many of which are have [...]

Yesterday, students at the University of the District of Columbia marched and camped in at the school's Van Ness campus to protest steep hikes in the school's tuition. Today the Board of Trustees for the University of the District of Columbia is voting on that plan, which would raise tuition for students in four-year programs [...]