In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ...

There’s a long, fractious debate over the performance of public schools v. private schools in this country, and that feud has grown more intense over the past few years, with the publication of a ...

Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly ...

Tempers flared across Ontario last month when a report from the province's Education Quality and Accountability Office revealed that fully half of Grade 6 students failed to meet provincial ...

Teaching children about math isn't easy. At a time when science, technology, engineering and mathematics are critical to a head-spinning number of careers, Kansas schools have seen stagnating ...