YuKong Zhao, president of the Asian American Coalition for Education, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. (Kirk Carapezza/WGBH) First some background: This isn’t the only complaint against Ivy League universities by the Asian American Coalition. Last year, it claimed Harvard holds the highest expectations for its Asian applicants....

Roger Cook, superintendent, Taylor County School District, Kentucky Roger Cook, a superintendent in rural central Kentucky, took a risky path to becoming a champion for academic success. By his own admission, this former high school football coach says some of his methods broke the rules. He believed his students needed personalized help to be...

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. A new test known as edTPA, meant to better gauge if teachers are prepared for the classroom, is still getting mixed reviews, according to a pair of studies out this month. While many teacher recruits like aspects of the test, for which they have to submit a portfolio that...

Members of the student-led UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign are calling Wednesday’s announcement a victory. (Courtesy of UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign) UMass will become the first major public university in the country to divest its $770 million endowment from fossil fuel companies. Under pressure from the student-led Umass Fossil...

As Mental Health Awareness month comes to a close, it is important to remember that fostering mental health starts in infancy. From birth to age three a child’s brain is developing rapidly with over 700 new neural connections formed every second. Nurturing environments and positive experiences that promote early learning help to foster healthy brain...

When Jessica Schon decided to start using a new method for managing classroom behaviors, no one in the district had told her to do it. Instead, Schon started using a free program to track behavior and get children excited about things like staying in line. The children soon became enamored with a plump, green cartoon character sporting a ninja mask,...