Education

Lewis D. Ferebee has questions.

More than 200 D.C. families that thought their children would have a shot at getting into one of the city’s most prestigious public high schools had their hopes extinguished last week when they learned they no longer qualify — because of a…

Some might not expect a school in southeast Washington, D.C., to have the only all-black robotics team at a national competition. Others might look at Hendley Elementary School’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and…

Last year, local media exposed the widespread corner-cutting that had been boosting the District of Columbia Public School’s graduation rates, wherein high schools allowed students to pass courses and walk across the stage even after they…

After a year-long investigation, the D.C. ethics board has censured former Deputy Mayor of Education Jennifer Niles over her role in a school transfer scandal that led to the resignation of two of the top education officials in the…

How one school is using co-teaching and computer-based learning to maximize the amount of individual attention each student receives

A proposal to force charter schools to post more information to their websites has exposed a long-simmering debate in the District: Should traditional public schools and charter schools have to follow the same rules?

As many of you are aware, the Los Angeles Unified School District and Mayor Eric Garcetti recently ended a labor strike by making concessions to the United Teachers Union.

D.C. residents and teachers offered some advice Wednesday night to the educator nominated to lead the city’s schools: Listen to us and be a champion for our campuses.

Liz Koenig has been working in D.C. charter schools for seven years, and at the same charter for the last five. She used to be a lawyer. “My first-year salary as a teaching assistant was less than my year-end bonus as an attorney, which…

The first of three hearings leading up to the D.C. Council’s vote on the nomination of Lewis D. Ferebee as the District’s schools chancellor is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday.

As the sun set on a chilly March day last year, close to 20 Georgetown University graduate students gathered on campus in Red Square. A local artist, Adrian Parsons, fiddled with a projector as the students huddled and fidgeted, looking up…

D.C. Council members are moving to ensure the city’s most vulnerable students get the help they have been promised following disclosures that money for at-risk students was used for routine school system expenses.

Earlier this week, Washington, D.C., councilmember Brandon Todd proposed legislation that would dramatically increase the number of dual language immersion (DLI) programs in the nation’s capital. This is hardly a surprise. In a city like…