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Giving schools access to classroom materials and supplying them with seasoned teachers are core elements of the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative.

Alabama was the first state to require students to take four credits of math and four of science to graduate. Schools take very different approaches to meeting that mandate.

A visit to the campus of a newly built research center in Huntsville, Ala., offers a glimpse of the state’s economic heritage and, quite possibly, its economic future.

Even in an austere budget year, the Garden State found the funds to give precollegiate education a boost.

As other states cut back on education spending in the darkening economy of 2008, Pennsylvania produced a budget that delivered the biggest increase in two decades.

New educational uses of cellphones are challenging the bans many districts have adopted to prevent students from using the wireless devices on campus.

School groups will have a chance to see history unfold in person as Barack Obama is sworn in as president on Jan. 20—though finding a place to stay in Washington may prove as elusive as a clear view of the inauguration.

A consortium of four states will try to reinvent secondary schools at the practical and policy levels.

Ramon C. Cortines, a veteran urban schools chief, was set to take over the nation's second-largest school district Jan. 1 under a three-year contract.

An Ohio school district says the economy is so tight it has kept its cafeterias open during the holiday break to provide hot lunches for needy students.

The Missouri supreme court has affirmed the state takeover of the St. Louis school system.

The Detroit school board has fired Superintendent Connie Calloway, blaming her for the pending appointment of a state financial overseer because of the district's estimated $408 million deficit.

New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit organization that recruits and grooms principals to serve in high-poverty schools, will begin training leaders in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., district this summer.

A California judge has blocked a state mandate that would have required students to take and be tested in introductory algebra in 8th grade.

The U.S. Department of Education has released regulations for the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act that are set to take effect Jan. 8. The new rules seek to reassure school officials who wish to share private student information because they believe it is necessary to prevent a health or safety emergency.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on behalf of a Michigan student who sought to distribute Christian messages to his fellow public school students as part of a school assignment.

Other nations’ methods may help shape policy, influential groups argue.

Students' academic performance in 8th grade predicts whether they are prepared for college and the workplace—even more so than their high school coursework or family background, a study concludes.

The brains of children who are living in poverty function differently from those of children living in better circumstances, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.