NPR reports that in spite of growing concerns the U.S. states are not using the Federal stimulus money to protect the schools from budget cuts. Many schools have been forced to cut their budgets bowing to the difficult economic times in the states.

“There are three key ways home schoolers are positively impacting the US economy, and we should be paying close attention to this growing population,” says Josephine Nicholas, Chief Operating Officer of Published Daily, a new startup tech company whose aim is to help professionals better communicate and market to their networks.

Public middle-grades schools placed under private management in 2002 as part of a state-run overhaul of the Philadelphia School District did not keep pace with the rest of the city's public schools, according to a study published in the American Journal of Education.

As reported by WorldNetDaily.com, on Friday, March 6, Judge Ned W. Mangum stripped Raleigh resident Venessa Mills of her right to homeschool, and ordered her three children to enter public school.

Segregation and its sordid history is is back in the news today with reports of increasing segregation in U.S. public schools.

Teachers who have earned certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards are challenged to become education leaders in their community, says Wake County Public Schools system.

Recent changes – including new laws and new routes into teaching with lowered cost for individuals to enter the profession – have dramatically changed the characteristics of teachers, particularly in large urban districts.

Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.

Public schools in the United States once matched even the finest private academies in facilities and quality of instruction. But socioeconomic challenges have put public school systems under great strain and scrutiny.

A new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin finds that Texas' public school accountability system, the model for the national No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), directly contributes to lower graduation rates.

It was the time of the Beatles, the Mavis Bramston Show, the EH Holden and prime minister Robert Menzies.

A study of sex education in Illinois public schools found that one out of three teachers did not meet a very forgiving definition of comprehensive instruction, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report in the February 2008 issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.