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 ...

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 ...

Programs that offer families public funds to spend on private education expenses are becoming bigger, more common, and more complex. Debates about these programs are dominated by claims from ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Ten private schools in a five-county region of Central New York had at least 80% of their students score proficient on at least one statewide assessment test in English language arts ...