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A new documentary is a welcome antidote to the bleak and misleading message of "Waiting for Superman" and "Won't Back Down." Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. In the battle over public education, the corporate foundations and...

From "Go Public" Ever since the emergence of talking pictures, schools have been a major subject of both Hollywood movies and documentary films. One consistent theme of Hollywood portrayals of schools – from Blackboard Jungle (1955), Up the...

One Monday morning last fall, at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl refused to hand over her cellphone to her algebra teacher. After multiple requests, the teacher called an administrator, who eventually summoned...

This is a compilation of Tennessee news and political stories assembled daily by staffers in Gov. Bill Haslam’s office. Editorial: Higher ed’s new ‘transfer down’ plan makes sense (Jackson Sun) We continue to watch, and applaud...

US schools are weird places where athletes, not scholars, are the stars — it was that way when I was growing up, it’s that way now. High schools spend huge sums of money on sports, and colleges are on their way to becoming professional sports...