Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help. 

With a well-marked pathway from preschool through high school, the dense New Jersey city is a model educator for newcomers—and America at large.

As a mentoring program shows, the arc of a child’s life can be altered by a single stable adult.

Fighting AIDS in the streets.

Community schools alter the arc of children's lives by addressing academic and social needs.

San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco’s initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.