By Corey Turner If this isn’t an honest-to-goodness crystal ball, it’s close. Neurobiologist Nina Kraus believes she and her team at Northwestern University have found a way — a half-hour test — to predict kids’ literacy skill long before they’re old enough to begin reading. When I first read the study in the journal PLOS Biology, two words...

Long Beach board under pressure to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary Dozens of schools throughout the nation bear the name of Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. NY Daily News Why NYC is experimenting with new ways to desegregate public schools Advocates of school integration say the tide is...

By Nicholas Fandos This is not your typical summer sleepaway camp. Bonfires and archery? Try Insecure Direct Object References and A1-Injections. The dozen or so teenagers staring at computers in a Marymount University classroom here on a recent day were learning — thanks to a new National Security Agency cybersecurity program that reaches down into the ranks...

Voter in L.A. school board race wins $25,000 for casting a ballot An experiment in boosting chronic low-turnout local elections ended Friday when Rojas, a 35-year-old security guard, received a check. Los Angeles Times Commentary: LAUSD still persecuting one of the nation’s best teachers Esquith is being treated like a Wall Street cheat. Washington Post...

By Caitlin Moran These days, parent-teacher associations are about more than bake sales and art projects. Individual regions and councils tackle concerns that range from cyber-bullying to achievement gaps and from the importance of early reading skills to including families that speak a language other than English at home. Laura Bay says she’s ready to...

Group sues 13 districts for not using test scores in teacher evaluations The lawsuit targets school systems in the state that have barred the use of test results through collective-bargaining agreements with teachers unions. Los Angeles Times CA law bars consent as a defense in child sexual-abuse lawsuits Gov. Brown announced he signed legislation introduced...

By Emily Deruy High schools across the country are taking what might seem like a counterintuitive approach to educating some of their most at-risk students. They’re enrolling them in college before they even graduate from high school. A new report from the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy suggests that dual-enrollment programs, where students take classes...

Senate rejects effort to give feds more say in identifying failing schools The measure was opposed by many Republicans who want to rein in the federal government’s influence over education. Washington Post Teachers back in school to master Common Core standards School’s out for summer – although maybe not, if your job is to teach...