Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been ...

The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke and until recently led MPD’s use-of-force training is not the only ...

Even though EdReports is only a decade old, it has quickly become a powerful force in the educational publishing industry. Many schools rely on its reviews when they decide which reading programs to ...

Illinois hospitals routinely skirt one of the nation’s strongest laws protecting victims of sexual assault.

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow has become the largest teacher training program in the nation, offering a low-cost online program. While it’s lowered barriers and helped diversify the workforce, this ...

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell.

For years, Randi Weingarten supported "zero-tolerance" policies in schools. Under zero tolerance, students who break certain school rules face mandatory penalties, including suspension and referral to ...

Investigators in Jacob Wetterling's disappearance used lie detectors "a lot," one of them says. But some research suggests they're not much more reliable than flipping a coin.

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, two of the biggest names in literacy education, are breaking their silence in the debate over how best to teach kids to read, responding to criticism that their ideas ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

If a prosecutor takes a criminal case to trial and the defendant is found not guilty, then it's over. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from re-prosecuting someone ...