By Frank Bruni Teaching can’t compete. When the economy improves and job prospects multiply, college students turn their attention elsewhere, to professions that promise more money, more independence, more respect. That was one takeaway from a widely discussed story in The Times on Sunday by Motoko Rich, who charted teacher shortages so severe in certain areas of...

Kids have three times too much homework, study finds; what’s the cost? A study found students in the early elementary school years are getting significantly more homework than is recommended by education leaders. CNN New Denver high school has later start time The right start time for middle and high school students is a controversial...

By PBS Newshour For the first time this school year, nonwhite children made up more than half of the country’s public school students. But the country’s schools have grown only more segregated since 1988. The most recent data shows the average white student goes to a school that is more than 70 percent white. And...

State delays releasing Common Core-aligned test scores until September Officials say they want to take extra care to make sure everything is accurate and complete before the official release in September. EdSource LA schools urged to shift football practices to early morning due to heat  The rush to avoid heat stroke is spreading from Texas...

By Emma Brown Ten California teachers and the Christian Educators Association have sued the California Teachers Association in a case that could eliminate public employee unions’ right to collect fees from all workers. Many observers believe that the case, to be argued before the Supreme Court this fall, could seriously undermine public sector unions nationwide. So who are the teachers who want...

Lawsuit claims state refuses to release data on English learners The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Public Counsel filed a lawsuit to force the department to release the documents. EdSource Parents outraged over school bus fees Some parents are upset that school districts in Southern California are charging for students to ride the bus....

By Motoko Rich In a stark about-face from just a few years ago, school districts have gone from handing out pink slips to scrambling to hire teachers. Across the country, districts are struggling with shortages of teachers, particularly in math, science and special education — a result of the layoffs of the recession years combined...

Major charter school expansion in the works for L.A. Unified students Charter school leaders said they have met with officials from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in recent months about the effort. Los Angeles Times Editorial: L.A. Unified’s ‘teacher jail’ policy ends up punishing students As currently practiced, the procedure appears to turn too...

ICYMI — that is, in case you missed the Republican presidential candidates talking about education last night: Well, you had to listen carefully because education didn’t get much attention. Only three candidates had anything to say about education — mostly because they weren’t asked about it — and only the two from Florida, prompted by the...

By Silpa Kovvali The summer before my senior year of high school, I went on a family vacation to India that was, in and of itself, an education. I had, of course, a connection to the land my mom and dad called home for half their lives, and had been on a handful of trips...