Felton Williams shares insights from his 16 years as one of the few Black members on the Long Beach, Calif., school board.

Most school boards don’t look the students they serve, but new research suggests that must change.

One way to train newly elected school board members for the job ahead is to start before they even run for office.

Here are strategies for creating strong, respectful, productive relationships between superintendents and school boards.

After a summer of protests over racial injustice, school districts are embracing anti-bias programs. The problem is: Few studies show they work.

As the bizarre becomes ordinary, don't forget what's at stake for America's teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Justin Minkel.

COVID-19 has revealed stark inequities, but education leaders should seize the moment to dismantle them, writes Sonja Brookins Santelises.

Researchers interviewed scores of principals in 19 states on how they’ve coped and the lessons they’re taking away from the pandemic’s disruption.

Schools and staff confront a welter of employment laws and regulations when it comes to on-site work under the pandemic.

The principal advice column takes on communicating district decisions you disagree with, optimizing virtual lunch bunches, and more.

Marc Tucker discusses the work of the Maryland Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Education, with support from NCEE, to update the state's school funding formula and to develop policies and practices to match the performance of the world's top-performing education systems.

Maryland's state school board will allow noneducators to be appointed as superintendents of school systems.

Even when schools remain open, teachers across the country are speaking out for an investment in public education and protesting school-choice measures.

A vote by a professional-standards board means Maryland will not permit noneducators to be appointed as schools superintendents, after all.

Chief technology officers are facing an unprecedented test of digital preparedness due to the coronavirus pandemic, struggling with shortfalls of available learning devices and huge Wi-Fi access challenges.

Thousands of teachers marched in Annapolis on Monday evening, pushing for higher pay and more resources for their students.

The state, which earned a B, saw its educational strength buoyed by strong performance in areas that measure socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment.

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

While most teachers have online access at home, internet service for many educators in rural areas is spotty, expensive, or nonexistent.

An internationally known gifted-education center is scouting—and helping to develop—gifted students in after-school programs and pullout classes in one of Maryland’s most challenged school districts.

Maryland's legislature has proposed a unique way to fund schools and also wants to hold school districts more accountable for how they spend their money as part of a new funding formula.

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

Schools may have to continue closures in the fall if the coronavirus resurges, state schools chiefs in Maryland and Washington said. The warnings came the same week thata key federal official predicted schools would be able to reopen for the 2020-21 school year.

School district leaders must make high-stakes decisions with woefully imperfect information.

Marc Tucker reviews David Driscoll's new book, 'Commitment and Common Sense', and describes how the Massachusetts reforms are comparable to those in top performing education systems around the world.

Too often, teachers are asked to use SEL practices without enough training and ongoing support, tanking the effectiveness.