Forum: Washington, DC

From Washington Post by Cecilia Kang: The sixth-graders are lighting up the room with their MacBook Airs, flipped open to Google, Wikipedia and...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque: D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson introduced a new five-year plan Wednesday that calls for...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque: Chancellor Kaya Henderson, nearing the end of her first full school year as leader of DCPS, is committing the...

From Washington Post by Ian Shapira: Michael Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia’s super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...

From Washington Post by Emma Brown:A new player is entering the crowded field of businesses that aim to help eighth-grade students improve their...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque:By the end of her second year at MacFarland Middle School, fifth-grade teacher Sarah Wysocki was coming into her...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque: I sat down with Chancellor Kaya Henderson on Monday, the day before her comments to the Education Department...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque: D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Chancellor Kaya Henderson are discussing a plan to restore the District’s power...

From Washington Post by Donna St. George: Thousands of elementary students were suspended from public schools last year in Washington and its...

From Washington Post by Ovetta Wiggins: The Prince George’s County teacher lifted a foam object from an orange bucket in her lap and waited for...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque: DCPS will pilot its first gifted-and-talented program at Kelly Miller and Hardy middle schools this fall. No...

From Washington Examiner by Lisa Gartner: D.C. Public Schools introduced a pilot program in the fall that allows teachers rated "highly effective"...

From N.Y. Times by Mark Oppenheimer: “Are your jackets on, boys?” Joe Cardenas inspects his charges in first-period freshman humanities class, sees...

From Washington Post by Michael Alison Chandler: Soon after principal Kevin Lowndes welcomes new students to Wheaton High School each fall, he...

A three-part series from the Washington Post on the fate of 59 fifth-graders who were given an extraordinary gift: the promise of a college education...

From Washington Post by Janice D'Arcy: Parents of the Washington D.C. bastion of educational exclusivity, Sidwell Friends, may recognize some of...

From Washington Post by Michael Alison Chandler: The principal of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School said she tried for years to rein in hazing during...

From Washington Post by Bill Turque:Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist who thought play was the key to learning, died 72 years before the...

From Washington Post by Kevin Sieff: The budding scholars in Alexandria’s gifted *classes are bright and curious enough to make any teacher beam,...

From Washington Examiner by Lisa Gartner: D.C. Public Schools is considering a proposal from D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown to lure top teachers...