The U.S. secretary of education visited New Hampshire on Tuesday, giving parents and teachers a chance to talk about efforts to improve the state’s schools.

The nation’s education secretary came to Albany Monday to talk about millions in “Race to the Top” money to turn New York’s schools around – and to talk to teachers…

Says Competition For Grants Leads To Failure To Serve Economically Poorest Students A coalition of Connecticut education leaders is protesting the Obama administration’s practice of making states or school systems compete for federal education grants, saying it’s a subjective way to distribute money and fails to serve the state’s poorest students.

New Orleans has become a laboratory for education reform since hurricane Katrina. Charter schools, which are free to experiment, make up the majority of the city’s schools.