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Congress will consider a proposal to spend $2.35 billion for K-12 reading initiatives once served by Reading First and other efforts.

NBC News is planning a special week of programming and other activities late this month to draw attention to the challenges in U.S. education and how to address them.

Lewis Carroll could have had a ball with today's topsy-turvey, test-dominated place called school, writes Nel Noddings. Nothing there is as it seems.

With dishonesty now a virtual classroom norm, writes Christopher L. Doyle, talking openly with students about it might help teachers seek solutions.

There are dozens of academic and developmental reasons for schools to create and use outdoor classrooms, writes green-schoolyard advocate Kirk Meyer. He gives 10.

Alfie Kohn offers a skeptic's guide to assessment programs that turn educators into accountants and trivialize their teaching.

Deciding who should teach the goals of language arts instruction is as ambiguous as ever, writes Rafael Heller.

As commercial vendors and nonprofit groups respond to the common standards, advocates wonder whether alignment claims are on target.

Though used by most schools to identify students needing help learning English, the surveys may often be inaccurate, researchers say.

In an effort to extend what is one of the nation's shortest school days, Chicago Public Schools plans to add 90 minutes to the schedules of 15 elementary schools using online courses and nonteachers.

The common-core standards should be modified, writes University of Georgia educator William G. Wraga, to give greater emphasis to interdisciplinary study and educating students for democratic citizenship.

Top state officials in Maryland are promoting a plan that would make the study of environmental education a graduation requirement for all public school students.

In a high-profile speech, the president called Race to the Top "the single most important thing we've done" on education.