U.S. clothing retailers are lagging European brands in signing onto an accord for factory safety in Bangladesh.

A new report says the State of Louisiana has failed to adequately monitor its publicly funded charter schools to confirm that the schools’ reported numbers of graduates, dropouts and student attendance are true.

Despite lawsuits filed by parents and concerns raised by independent hearing officers, the Chicago Board of Education on May 22 approved closing 49 schools, just four fewer than the 53 it had announced earlier this year.

For the first time, Hispanics are entering college at a greater rate than white or black students, a new report shows. Their rate of enrollment in college has risen to 70 percent.

Private foundations are giving an increasing amount of money to education. But they are directing it to a shrinking number of groups, and the losers are public schools and public universities.

With information and news sources proliferating on social media and the Internet, educators say it is increasingly important to teach students how to separate fact from fiction.

Michelle Rhee's record under scrutiny, new science standards, and other news from around the country.

Teachers in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the state’s new teacher evaluation system is unfair because it partly rates their job performance on test scores of students they don’t know and subjects they don’t teach.

Michelle Rhee's record under scrutiny, new science standards, and other news from around the country.

Socioeconomic segregregation in schools greatly affects students' graduation and college enrollment rates, new research shows.