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Got some free time this weekend? Check out these 5 education stories you may have missed this week:1. Applying for college aid just got harder | NPRMany…

Who gets to volunteer at your kids’ school? Maybe it’s a question you haven’t thought about much. But when we learned that the guy who shot and killed two…

We're going to go out on a limb here and say most parents want to know how their child's school measures up in terms of standardized test scores,…

In the aftermath of the Great Recession the number of students living in poverty is continuing to increase. That is the key finding of seven years of data…

Sometimes a family needs more out of a trip to the doctor than what a physician can provide. In those instances, an attorney might be what the doctor…

The type of education a child in Michigan gets depends in large part on where he or she lives. That's because Michigan is under no legal obligation to…

If you're like me, you probably don't have a lot of spare time. So in an effort to make things easier for you, here's a roundup of some articles from the…

Last fall, I spent a ton of time in two different fifth-grade classrooms: one made up of poor kids, the other made up of kids whose families are mostly…

Think back to when you were a kid, and how much time you spent playing outside. Maybe you wandered the neighborhood until the streetlights came on. Or…

I'm a little late to the game. I only just heard of Jean Anyon a week ago. She's a leading researcher and education professor, and her study, "Social…