California "simply rubber-stamps" graduates of education schools before sending them into the classrooms, says a new report critical of state teaching standards. But two San Diego city school district officials say more money and higher public esteem would be necessary...

Two of California’s most highly regarded education professors, with a $300,000 foundation award, are directing a project to help close what they see as a serious information gap for state policymakers. The new project, called PACE (for Policy Analysis for...