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Teaching is an occupation with a famously high attrition rate. One figure often bandied about is that 50 percent of new teachers leave within five years. Other studies have shown it's not quite that dire, but turnover is still remarkably high. Prince George's County, where Paul Murdock teaches, is...

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 -- In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are apathetic about ethical standards.

While D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee fights the Washington Teachers' Union over her plan to give principals unprecedented power to mold their staffs, at least one of her latest hires already has such authority. Brian Betts , principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson, personally...

Paul Murdock has come a long way this semester. When the 26-year-old teacher agreed to be profiled by The Washington Post in August, he was a raw rookie. The walls of his fifth-grade classroom at Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School were bare, the desks piled up.

The average high school physics class in Virginia traverses 2,000 years of thinking, encompassing the Archimedes principle of buoyancy and Newton's laws of motion, and stopping abruptly at about the turn of the 20th century. Educators want the course to advance to today's string theorists and ato...

Three people were arrested Friday night in connection with a fire that killed a Wheaton woman.

The average high school physics class in Virginia traverses 2,000 years of thinking, encompassing the Archimedes principle of buoyancy and Newton's laws of motion, and stopping abruptly at about the turn of the 20th century. Educators want the course to advance to today's string theorists and ato...

Three people were arrested Friday night in connection with a fire that killed a Wheaton woman.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is being featured on the cover of Time magazine for her approach to reforming urban school systems.