Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature should take a breather from ordering up sweeping education reforms and give school administrators a chance to make the existing jumble of mandates work, according to a new assessment released today by a think...

A scathing critique of the state's strategy for improving schools—the strategy Governor Gray Davis hopes will "restore the greatness of California education"—says the plan resembles a jumbled jigsaw puzzle and is unlikely to succeed. The damning conclusions are found in...

By linking schooling with a specific field or occupation, the thinking goes, students will be able to see more direct connections between education and their own futures. The idea differs from traditional vocational schools in that the schools remain essentially...

Student mobility is the practice of students changing schools other than when they are promoted from one school level to the other, such as when students are promoted from elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school...