NYU will host a new center to study improvement in City Schools. The university has already appointed an Executive Director for the post. Initial Funding is already secured from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation.

Indian education system needs to be reformed so that it could incorporate culture-based education and link the younger generation with the older one, former NCERT director J S Rajput said today.

Oppositional Social Democrats have signalized their willingness to negotiate with the government about the implementation of a new grading system in school.

China is drafting a law to combat rampant exam cheating, said the country's education ministry on Wednesday.

As Congress reviews federal efforts to boost student performance, new research published in Educational Researcher (ER) reports that progress in raising test scores was stronger before No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, compared with the four years following enactment of the law.

Rock singer Bono threw his weight behind legislation proposed by a group of Democrats and Republicans, including presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, that would boost funding for free basic education for some of the world's poorest children.

In only a few years, the State of Qatar has successfully implemented a bold redesign of its K-12 education system, incorporating school autonomy, variety in curriculum, parental choice and accountability measures, according to a report issued today by the RAND Corporation.