Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students

American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat.

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Academy drops 'easy' A-levels for international test

The Government's education record was dealt a blow today after a new London academy said pupils will study the International Baccalaureate instead of A-levels.

The move to continental diplomas is a response to A-level "grade inflation", the decline in foreign languages at school and a desire to challenge pupils.

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College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

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Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Isobel Oliphant felt she was making an offbeat choice when she graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y., and enrolled at the ancient university in this quiet coastal town of stone ruins and verdant golf courses.

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Students shortchanged in math teaching

Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students.

It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group.

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Women Gain in Education but Not Power, Study Finds

GENEVA (Reuters) — Women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, though their access to education and health care is nearly equal, the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.

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How Teachers Can Be Happier

Teachers aren't very happy these days. This is partly due to some changes in the nature of the work, and—if it's any comfort—also partly due to the fact that everyone's less happy. For teachers in particular, there are many aspects of the profession that have grown more hard to take. I find on the web a survey from the NEA describing positive and negative aspects of the work over the last forty years. In the 1960s, factors like "positive attitude of pupils and parents" and "pupil progress and ability" had a significant impact on job satisfaction. After the 60s, those factors just disappear from the survey. In the most recent year of the survey, difficulties with administrators was a bigger source of job dissatisfaction than difficulties with students.

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