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The results indicated a dismal performance statewide, after years of significant gains.

President Obama on Thursday sought to deflect criticisms from some minority and teachers groups.

A new study found students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten — and earned more as young adults.

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia advanced to the second round of a national competition for federal financing to support education reform.

Test results indicated a dismal performance statewide, after years of significant gains.

Because test prep “boot camp” and $145-an-hour tutoring is available to those who can pay, children from wealthy families have an advantage, some parents say.

ALOT OF LIP service is given to not tolerating bad teachers. Educators, politicians and even union leaders say that there is no place in the classroom for a teacher who can’t produce results. But actually doing something about the situation is an entirely different matter.

Most of them were fired under a system that held them accountable for students’ standardized test scores.

Most of them were fired under a system that held them accountable for students’ standardized test scores.

A two-week program at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks teaches skills like logrolling, felling trees with axes and making fires without matches.